Verboticism: Diarrheaofthemouth
DEFINITION: v. To complain and complain about a problem without ever taking action to correct it. n. A complaint about something which you can fix but choose not to.
Voted For: Diarrheaofthemouth
Successfully added your vote For "Diarrheaofthemouth".
You still have one vote left...
Carpousel
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: karrp o sell
Sentence: Every morning her main carpousel was that her phone was on the right of her desk despite office management knowing that she was left handed. If something wasn't done soon, one of these days she would move it herself!
Etymology: carousel, carp
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Sounds fishy... maybe she had carpal punnel syndrome. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-15: 09:28:00
Or carpritis. - Clayton, 2007-06-15: 18:37:00
AppalLING behaviour in this workPLAICE. I'm BREAMful of her complaints and don't want to listen to her any MORAY, she is just FLOUNDERing in her job. I wonder what is the best ANGLE to SCHNAPPER out of it? COD we put our thinking CARPS on? There's no point being KOI about it. We may just have to tell her straight ANCHOVY her out the DORY. - petaj, 2007-06-15: 21:02:00
She catfish a sentence without trawling someone a name... everybody just tunas her out. If they didn't, they'd have to gill her. Minnow have tried. Quite a pickerel. She brines and brines, all trout the day. She must've lobster mind or something. I'm fin ta angle her. Shoal her who's boss. - Clayton, 2007-06-15: 23:29:00
Clayton, thanks for being that special salmon. I'm shore you'll do a fin job. - petaj, 2007-06-16: 01:35:00
Fish shore. - Clayton, 2007-06-16: 08:32:00
----------------------------
Gripethetic
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: gryp-eh-THET-ic
Sentence: Winston is absolutely and hopelessly gripethetic; he constantly yammers about issues and conditions that he thinks are wrong but when it comes to making any effort to change them he remains silent.
Etymology: Blend of 'gripe' (v. to complain with grumbling ) and 'pathetic' (adj. pitifully inferior or inadequate)
Whinals
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: whine-als
Sentence: Peg and Steve were habitchual whinals. At the end of every term they start to complain and carry on as if they didn't know there would be a final exam. If they had gone to class and studied instead of sitting around the cafeteria kvetching about their professors they wouldn't have to worry so much.
Etymology: whine:complain or protest in a childish fashion to + final: of or constituting the end result of a succession or process
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
hopefully they'll flunk, then they will have something to whine about - Nosila, 2010-01-11: 23:39:00
----------------------------
Criticycle
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: KRIH-tih-sye-kuhl
Sentence: Alex's girlfriend had no idea that her laments over his lack of mouthwash merely put her in a criticycle.
Etymology: criticise + cycle (circling round and round)
Groanertia
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: gro - nersha
Sentence: Jeremiah had to often listen to the groanertia around his office. He was tired of the same old complaints about things that anyone had the ability to remedy.
Etymology: groan, intertia
Comstain
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: com - stain
Sentence: Rather than fix the windshield, Peter felt like the spidered glass added a great comstain ice breaker during his car pooling trips.
Etymology: Complain - Sustain (sounds offensive but not intended)
Complaze
Created by: Susiestar
Pronunciation: Com-pl-aze (as in days)
Sentence: You always complaze about things. Why don't you do something about them?
Etymology: Comp - from complain laze - from the verb "to laze"
Gripertia
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: gry-per-sha
Sentence: I started my new job hoping to help bring real change and fix real problems, instead all I found was gripertia.
Etymology: gripe + inertia
Diarrheaofthemouth
Created by: jonique
Pronunciation: Die-ah-ree-ah-ov-the-mow-th
Sentence: Karen constantly suffers from diarrheaofthemouth whenever company comes over.
Etymology: Derived from the words diarrhea, meaning well you know. And from the words of, the, and mouth. This is pretty self-explanatory.
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Commonly known as verbal diarrhoea. - petaj, 2007-06-15: 21:05:00
----------------------------
Voted For! | Comments and Points
Fussargy
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: fəsərjē
Sentence: In a case of fussargy Alan complained that somebody had left the Xerox machine void of paper despite the fact that a pack of paper is sitting on the shelf next the copier. At that point he returned to his office leaving it just the way he found it.
Etymology: fuss (show unnecessary or excessive concern about something) + lethargy (a lack of energy and enthusiasm)