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DEFINITION: A willingness to wait, forever if necessary, for the perfect opportunity; excessive patience.
Verboticisms
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Opportenacity
Created by: CitizenKeen
Pronunciation: ah-PURR-ten-ASS-i-ty
Sentence: When Danny played Halo, he had the opportenacity to sit there and wait for the whole match for that perfect headshot.
Etymology: opportunity + tenacity
Purpoise
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: purr-poiz
Sentence: In trying to create a verboticism to match today's verbinition, Bob was willing to wait with purpoise.
Etymology: A blend of purpose: a goal; the thing you want to achieve; and poise: a state of calmness, composure, self-controlled under strain or pressure.
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COMMENTS:
if Bob is a porpoise he would be a porpoise with a purpoise - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-11: 12:24:00
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Dedicatience
Created by: younger
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She showed extreme dedicatience sitting through the entire performance which seemed to go on for hours.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
It's fun to say! - younger, 2007-09-11: 16:38:00
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Stoiextracism
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: stoh-uh-ek-struh-siz-uhm
Sentence: He who hesitates or practices stoiextracism is lost.
Etymology: stoicism + extra
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COMMENTS:
Might be time for a stoiexorcism! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-11: 18:25:00
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Perfechance
Created by: sparkles510
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The boy's perfechance caused him to wait for weeks to ask the girl out.
Etymology:
Constipatience
Created by: VersaVice
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: patience + constipation, inspired by the saying "either sh*t, or get off the pot!"
Placidelay
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: plass + ih + dih + lay
Sentence: Some day my ship will come in - until that day, I placidelay.
Etymology: placid + delay
Steadication
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: sted-i-key-shun
Sentence: Jean had unlimited steadication when it came to waiting for John's marrige proposal.
Etymology: steady + dedication
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COMMENTS:
very nice!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-11: 12:22:00
Steady there! At least they're going steady. Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-11: 18:21:00
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Waitorama
Created by: knele21
Pronunciation:
Sentence: i was willing to waitorama to get that girl
Etymology:
