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DEFINITION: v. To wait patiently, or perhaps not, for a little bit of medical attention and hopefully some relief from what ails you. n. A person who is sick, and tired, and waiting for medical care.
Verboticisms
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Impatients
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: im-pey-shuhnts
Sentence: The chart may have listed Rosie as an out-patient but the nurses designated her as one of the impatients.
Etymology: impatience (eagerly desirous) + patient (a person who is under medical care or treatment)
Impatientitis
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: impāshəntītis
Sentence: The emergency room was packed with customers with afflictions ranging from mild to catastrophic. The loudest however was the one with a major case of impatientitis displaying raging symptoms of menow-menow.
Etymology: impatirnt (having or showing a tendency to be quickly irritated or provoked) + itis (suffix used for forming names of inflammatory diseases)
Illfortunato
Created by: kalex
Pronunciation: Ill-for-toon-ah-toh
Sentence: I found myself trying unsuccessfully to sink into the hard plastic seat with the rest of the IllFortunatos. My head pounded and my rag was quickly filling with blood. It would be a long night.
Etymology: Ill- to be afflicted with virus, disease, injury Fortune-can mean one's overall situation Oh-an attempt to sound somewhat foreign
Ailienated
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: ale - ee - in - ate - ted
Sentence: Leroy was beginning to feel ailienated. He had been in the waiting room for two and a half days and no one had talked to him yet. Perhaps they did not want to come too close to him because he was sick.....
Etymology: Ail and Alienated - Ail is to be ill and Alienate is to make separate or not associate with.
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COMMENTS:
terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-04: 10:04:00
We can raillly around this great create - silveryaspen, 2009-03-04: 10:53:00
good one! - galwaywegian, 2009-03-04: 11:10:00
Really good. And funny in a sad way too. - kateinkorea, 2009-03-08: 10:16:00
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Illdoctaramous
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: eel-doc-ta-ray-mose
Sentence: Susie patiently waited as his patient in the tiny room chilled to the bone,adorned in that tiny paper top. She had waited so long that she became so "illdoctaramous" that she almost lost it and was about to ram her fist into the wall as she flew into a rage! Yet,Susie was too sick to let my temper flare. After 2 and 1/2 hours of sickly waiting,he walks in all chipper and did not notice Susy's "illdotaramous" attitude towards him.
Etymology: Ill;sick. Doctar;Doctor. Ram;Ready to ram a fist in the wall. Ous;Beyond ready to ram a fist into the wall and too sick to care to wait any longer.
Chroniqueue
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: KRON-ih-KYU (CHRONIQUEUER, CHRONIQUEUED)
Sentence: Doctor Terwilliger couldn't wait for retirement. After a grueling session with his shrink, he realized that he he had violated his hippocritic oath. When Doctor T saw the CHRONIQUEUE in his waiting room, he wished he'd installed that drive-up-window long ago. Glancing at the assorted afflictions, he entered his inner office, bolted out the back door and left prescriptions under the windshield wipers of each patient. The good doctor floored his Mercedes in an effort to reach the golf course on time, where he'd meet his investment banker and analyst to discuss his GOD complex, Swiss bank account and how to eke more bloodwork out of his nurse without raising her pay.
Etymology: CHRONIc + QUEUE = CHRONIQUEUE.....CHRONIC:marked by long duration or frequent recurrence, always present or encountered, constantly vexing, weakening, or troubling.....QUEUE: a waiting line especially of persons or vehicles,a sequence of messages or people held in temporary storage awaiting attention; French, literally, tail, from Old French cue, coe, Latin cauda, coda (1748).
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COMMENTS:
Q: WHAT DO THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE IN COMMON? Banana Dresser Grammar Potato Revive Uneven Assess...................A:If you move the first letter to the end of the word, you can spell the word backwards. - metrohumanx, 2009-03-04: 09:40:00
thanks for the answer to yesterday's riddle - silveryaspen, 2009-03-04: 10:55:00
now he's gone to 'phone service only' - the newest trend in the USA. Like the French flair in your word and etymology. - silveryaspen, 2009-03-04: 10:58:00
Oops ... I should have begun that last sentence with 'I like'. - silveryaspen, 2009-03-04: 10:59:00
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Anticipatient
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: an tis i pay shent
Sentence: The people in the ER waiting room tended to be anticipatient. They drank the awful coffee from the vending machine and then cued up for the toilets. Don't they know you do not buy it...you just rent coffee for a while?
Etymology: Anticipate (wait for) & Patient (a person who requires medical care;enduring without complaint)
Grimpatient
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: grim-PAY-shunt
Sentence: Wanda was doing her very best to remain cheerful but as the hours wore on and she continued to be ignored by the ER staff while feeling progressively worse she went from being an ordinary outpatient to being a grimpatient, angry and no longer a stoic and tolerant person.
Etymology: Blend of 'grim' (Dismal; gloomy) and 'patient'...dual meaning (a person who is under medical care or treatment) and (having or showing the capacity for endurance) --- a play on the word 'impatient'.
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COMMENTS:
wonderful choice of words with a perfect blending. Great Create! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-04: 01:02:00
like it - galwaywegian, 2009-03-04: 11:10:00
clever word play - rombus, 2009-03-05: 07:52:00
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Anticipwaition
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: an/ti/sip/wate/shun
Sentence: The anticipwaition became palpable when the door from the waiting room opened to reveal another room full of anxious patients.
Etymology: wait + anticipation
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COMMENTS:
Splendid sentence and word - silveryaspen, 2009-03-04: 10:54:00
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Grimpatient
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: grim-PAY-shunt
Sentence: Sue Ellen was doing her very best to remain cheerful but as the hours wore on and she continued to be ignored by the ER staff while feeling progressively worse she went from being an ordinary outpatient to being a grimpatient, angry and no longer a stoic and tolerant person.
Etymology: Blend of 'grim' (Dismal; gloomy) and 'patient'...dual meaning (a person who is under medical care or treatment) and (having or showing the capacity for endurance) --- a play on the word 'impatient'.
