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DEFINITION: A willingness to wait, forever if necessary, for the perfect opportunity; excessive patience.
Verboticisms
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Righencemt
Created by: leeannhamers
Pronunciation: ra- i-inc-m-ta
Sentence: i wanted to ask him but i was in a stage of righencment
Etymology: right/patence/ moment
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
Eternalretentive
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: e-turn-al-ree-tent-iv
Sentence: Penelope's eternalretention was so bad that it was being mimicked by her digestive system. It was always waiting for the perfect piece of cuisine - so she was fading away.
Etymology: anal retentive + eternity
Constiperformance
Created by: PeePaw00
Pronunciation: consta-performance
Sentence: In his life of constiperformance, he had no choice but to quit the band before their first paying gig.
Etymology: constipation + performance
Perfictionism
Created by: phonematode
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Stymied by her own perfictionism, she kept letting go of Mr. Right in search of Mr. Unfreakinbelievable. Now in her 70's she can frequently be heard muttering "All good things come to those who wait..." to her half dozen cats.
Etymology: fiction + perfectionism
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COMMENTS:
The thing about spinsters- to quote Earlene White- "a woman who knows all the answers but has never been asked the question." Love the sentence and a nice word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-11: 18:59:00
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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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Eternitease
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ee/turn/i/teez
Sentence: It didn't matter how long he had to wait. He was an eternitease so he could wait forever
Etymology: eternity + tease
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COMMENTS:
Another good one! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-11: 13:44:00
But he will finish up in an eterni-box. Handsome word in look and sound. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-11: 18:13:00
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Hypnotimed
Created by: trace45
Pronunciation: hyp·no·tīmd'
Sentence: Jack was hypnotimed from playing video games because he got fired for not showing up at work.
Etymology: hypno + timed
Ukillop
Created by: doig1394
Pronunciation: oo-kill-op
Sentence: the kid had a serious issue of ukillop
Etymology:
