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DEFINITION: A willingness to wait, forever if necessary, for the perfect opportunity; excessive patience.
Verboticisms
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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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Pronauseastination
Created by: gazissax
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Evan was a classic ballcrastinator: he was often struck out for waiting for the ideal pitch.
Etymology: nausea=from ad nauseaum, to go on to the point of sickness; procrastination=to put off and off
Waitorama
Created by: knele21
Pronunciation:
Sentence: i was willing to waitorama to get that girl
Etymology:
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
Willtopatience
Created by: Janbo
Pronunciation: Pronounced in a continuous manner.
Sentence: His willtopatience is too great for his own good.
Etymology:
Ukillop
Created by: doig1394
Pronunciation: oo-kill-op
Sentence: the kid had a serious issue of ukillop
Etymology:
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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Constipatience
Created by: VersaVice
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: patience + constipation, inspired by the saying "either sh*t, or get off the pot!"
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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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