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DEFINITION: n. The feelings that well up inside of you when you're waiting for service and another person, who arrived after you did, gets waited first! v. To wait and wait in line, only to watch other people jump the queue.
Verboticisms
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Turnburn
Created by: ChickenWhistle
Pronunciation: TERN-bern
Sentence: "Aww, man! I had a bad case of turnburn at the greengrocers yesterday. I must've been queuing for twenty minutes before I'd finally got to the front of the dismally short, yet depressingly slow line to the till. An old dear, (who must've been pushing a hundred if I'm a day,) in a pink, floral headscarf waddled completely obliviously past me and the people behind me straight to the counter. Wherefore she plonked her bag of tangerines and then spent ten minutes trying to find a twenty pence piece at the depths of her ancient purse. I would've given up and left in a huff if it wasn't for the great deal I was getting on white asparagus."
Etymology: Turn - e.g., "take it in turns, one at a time." Burn - (vernacular) a negative/painful experience. E.g., "Oh duuude, you got burned!"
Hanoiance
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: han oy anse
Sentence: Sheldon had waited a long time to get into his favourite popular Vietnamese restaurant. Then he had waited another long time to have his order taken. An older couple had come in after him and got their order long before he did. He felt a deep sense of hanoiance over the favoritism shown to this pair. He finally spoke to the waiter, demanding to know why he was being treated this way. The waiter smiled sheepishly and explained that the couple were his elderly grandparents, the actual owners of the restaurant, who had to be back to the seniors' home before 7:00 pm. With a sigh gone, Sheldon realized he was being pho-lish and hue too hasty, as it was their recipes he was enjoying. Even though he'd had to wait, it was a nguyen-nguyen situation for him.
Etymology: Hanoi (Capitol city of Viet Nam) & Annoyance (the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed) Also: Hue (pron: hway)ancient people of Viet Nam and a name of a city there); Pho (Vietnamese soup);Nguyen (pronounced Hwin) most popular Vietnamese surname and family name of a royal dynasty)
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COMMENTS:
I love it long time! - scrabbelicious, 2010-10-20: 19:20:00
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Buttindignation
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: butt/in/dig/nay/shun
Sentence: Sally felt the buttindignation overwhelming as someone cut in front of her at the ticketbooth and bought the last ticket.
Etymology: butt in + indignation
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COMMENTS:
that's good - petaj, 2009-04-07: 06:18:00
Good word. could have used it yesterday as well :) - galwaywegian, 2009-04-07: 07:36:00
buttinhol - silveryaspen, 2009-04-07: 11:13:00
oops ... you buttinhholed this definition! Great Create! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-07: 11:14:00
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Interjerkt
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: inn tur jur kt
Sentence: The intensity of his interjerktion was resposible for his impaling on Madams umbrella.
Etymology: interject as in butt in, jerk as in butt head.
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COMMENTS:
Your sentence and verbotomy are so good I not see it, I feel it! Excell'in't! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-07: 11:19:00
Can't type today worth a hang. Meant to type - Your sentence and verbotomy are good, I not only see it, I feel it. Excell'in't! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-07: 11:20:00
tragic but funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-07: 15:21:00
At least his rain of terror is over...maybe we should all carry umbrellas! - Nosila, 2009-04-07: 23:06:00
I'll bet he wanted to bumbershoot someone! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-08: 02:27:00
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Cutniption
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kut-nip-shuhn
Sentence: Jerry just about had a cutniption when people appeared to be butting in the line waiting to get into the club. Yeah, sure they are EMTs dealing with an ill patron but shouldn't they have to wait like everybody else. At least the sick person should have had the courtesy of falling out of the queue.
Etymology: conniption (fit, temper fit) + cut (to move or thrust oneself abruptly between others)
Linearage
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: linēərāj
Sentence: Gerry was happy when he was finally able to take his kids to Disney World. He fully expected to have to wait in lines. What he hadn't anticipated was the queue jumpers who thought nothing of cutting in line. He could feel his linearage building. If the kids weren't with him there might have been a all-out queuebrawl.
Etymology: linear (arranged in or extending along a straight or nearly straight line) + rage (violent, uncontrollable anger)
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COMMENTS:
Wouldn't want the kids to witness GERRYatrix! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-08: 02:23:00
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Dissedservice
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: dissed-service
Sentence: Henrietta felt dissedserviced by the farmer because he waited on the bantam before her, even though no one knew what the farmer wanted. So she called on all her friends to protest. The chickens decided to organize and sent a petition to the entire farm community, and everyone gladly signed. When the farmer read the petition, he looked at Henrietta and smiled. "I had no idea you felt dissed by me," he said, "but don't worry, I'll see you Sunday afternoon for dinner. Why don't you bring some buiscuts?" Moral: Don't squawk at someone unless you know what's on his plate.
Etymology: dissed:(slang)disrespected, insulted + service: providing aid and assistance
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COMMENTS:
EXCELLENT saga! Now if we could just get the pigs organized, we could put and end to the summary executions! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-08: 02:25:00
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Waitred
Created by: garythesnail
Pronunciation: WAY-TREAD
Sentence: Harvey was waiting for ages to buy a movie ticket,when some jerk cut in front of him and got the last ticket! Harvey's waitred was so welled up, he slapped the guy.
Etymology: Wait + Hatred
Queuecumber
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kew kum ber
Sentence: George was a right queuecumber. He'd line up every day for the commuter train and sure enough, some selfish person would muscle past him at the last minute and get on before him, usually taking his favourite seat. One day, that guy got on George's last nerve. He shoved him under the tracks as the train was pulling out. George had a one-track mind and the pushy guy is now a choocumber.
Etymology: Queue (line up of people) & Encumber (hold back)
Dissqueueiet
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: diss kew waii et
Sentence: His dissqueueiet led to the linisation of the interlopers.
Etymology: disquiet queue diss
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by abrakadeborah. Thank you abrakadeborah. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2009-04-07: 02:41:00
Very greative cartoon, James!
abrakadeborah - 2009-04-07: 05:46:00
Thanks James! great cartoon too! It made me think hard on my own definition :)
mweinmann - 2009-04-07: 07:39:00
The cartoon was very thought provoking....that sometimes, we might want to wait or that what we are waiting for might not be the "answer" to our wishes in the end.
Thank you. I guess the feeling is that sometimes we're lucky enough NOT to get what we wanted. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by abrakadeborah. Thank you abrakadeborah. ~ James