Verboticism: Polypotdrone
DEFINITION: n., A person who diligently and persistently complains about their work. v., To enjoy bellyaching about your job so much that you would never consider quitting.
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Labomasochism
Created by: Roosje
Pronunciation: lay - boh - mas - ooh - gism
Sentence: Don't be so labomasochistic.
Etymology: labo = labour masochism = pleasure from pain
Disployee
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dis-ploi-ee
Sentence: Mack is a great disployee. No matter what the company does, he can find the down side of it. The company throws a holiday party; they should have put the money into larger raises. The company pays for employee's parking; garages are ugly and unhealthy because of exhaust fumes. If his dad wasn't the owner, he'd have quit long ago.
Etymology: dis (to show disrespect for; affront) + employee (a person working for another person or a business firm for pay)
Steadfuss
Created by: milorush
Pronunciation: (intr. v. & n.) stěd'-fŭs
Sentence: "Quit being such a steadfuss. I'm tired of your incessant griping about work conditions at the sperm bank!" ejaculated Sam.
Etymology: stead[fast] + fuss (from "fussbudget" = "a fussy or needlessly fault-finding person")
Whinetofiver
Created by: verbony
Pronunciation: wine-too-five-er
Sentence: Would you just listen to that whinetofiver
Etymology: whinny+nine-to-fiver
Occupission
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: occu-PISS-shun
Sentence: Manny's occupission as PA in Hollywood was to be everyone's bitch and he complained about it constantly. But when confronted with quitting he always asserted, "And leave show business?"
Etymology: Occupation + Piss (as in piss and moan)
Occupulation
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ock-yew-pule-AY-shun
Sentence: Reginald griped and complained so often and so long at work that most folks realized that whining had become his ocupulation, a fact that had many of them wishing he'd take his skills elsewhere.
Etymology: Blend of 'occupation' (a person's usual or principal work or business) and 'pule' (whine)
Employmenagaddictomist
Created by: maryamwebster
Pronunciation: employ-men-NAG-a-dictomist
Sentence: "Hazel is such an employmenagaddictomist, but she'll never leave Consolidated - she likes her office chair too much."
Etymology: Employment, gainful work, Nag meaning to kvetch and complain, addict, one who is addicted to the preceding, -omist ending indicating a set prediliction
Moanitor
Created by: pungineer
Pronunciation: Moan/it/tor
Sentence: Joan was a classic moanitor, the whole office knew she always volunteered to organise the staff day out just so she would have even more material for her non stop complaining
Etymology: Moan: the sound a complainant makes Monitor: a person with special duties such as giving out milk
Fretoric
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛdəˌɹɪk/
Sentence: Fredrick complained all the time, but it was just fretoric.
Etymology: from fret + rhetoric