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DEFINITION: n. A willingness to wait, forever if necessary, for the perfect opportunity. v. To be excessively patient.
Verboticisms
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Trancepatience
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: transe payt iens
Sentence: his trancepatience was so effective, he had his own cpr team.
Etymology: trance patience
Cialusmoment
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: see-AL-us-mo-ment
Sentence: He knew he should have turned left at Poughkeepsie, but it didn't feel right, so he waited for that Cialusmoment and ultimately ended his journey in Tucson.
Etymology: Cialus - an erectile dysfunction medication whose commercial asks the question "When the time is right, will you be ready?"; moment
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COMMENTS:
I LOVE this one! Very funny! - jedijawa, 2007-03-19: 14:49:00
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Opportimistic
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: op ur ti MIS tik
Sentence: Alan was opportimistic that this time he would find just the right work-from-home scheme. He considered it "job-hunting" when he was surfing the Web for ways to earn cash in his free time. And he had a LOT of free time now, since losing his job due to excessive time spent surfing the Web.
Etymology: opportunity + optimistic
Perfectopp
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation: Per-fect-opp
Sentence: I will perfectopp for the perfect pitch.
Etymology: Perfect oppertunity
Exatience
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: (ecks-ay-shense)
Sentence: She stood waiting there with exatience not realizing she had been stood up.
Etymology: "Excessive" (unrestrained) and "patience" (intolerance).
Infinatience
Created by: yogiword
Pronunciation: in fin A shince
Sentence: The young mother, despite having the urge to hurry, developed the infinatience to wait for her toddler to discover every dandelion in the park as they enjoyed their daily outing.
Etymology: Congruence of "infinity" and "patience."
Obsessient
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ob-SESS-yent
Sentence: No matter how dire a situation may be or how quickly a remedy should be applied, Martin was absolutely obsessient in waiting for just the right remedy to present itself for fear of not finding the very best remedy available.
Etymology: Blend of obsessive and patient
Lages
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: lage/ess
Sentence: He lages for the perfect opportunity to buy the stock at the right time. Because of his lagesness, he often misses the ideal price point.
Etymology: lag + ages
Jobeness
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: jobe/ness
Sentence: He felt that exercising extreme jobeness by waiting for the perfect pitch would result in fame and prosperity
Etymology: Job (as in the patience of Job) + ness (a character with special powers from the video game Earthbound)
Supervirtuation
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: soo-per-ver-chew-ay-shun
Sentence: The grandmasters' supervirtuation meant their pieces moving at no more than three squares per hour.
Etymology: Based on the proverb "patience is a virtue".
Comments:
mplsbohemian - 2007-03-19: 10:42:00
This is the best batch of words I've seen yet. :)
wordmeister - 2007-03-19: 17:50:00
There so many good ones... But which one should I vote for? I'd like to zensist on a cialusmoment but I may have too much infinatience and succumb to preparalysis, or even aucoporence. Is this caseyatthebatititude, or just godotancy?
Hey Verbotomists, Great words last week. Nosila was the top player, but since she won "The Eyre Affair", the prize "Lost in a Good Book" goes to mrskellyscl. This week we are giving away Jasper Fforde's "The Well of Lost Plots". Be creative, and good luck to all. ~ James