Verboticism: Longwhineded
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.
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Swaitandbitch
Created by: jimmmm
Pronunciation: swait-and-bitch
Sentence: Rather than cancel his subscription to the ever-shrinking newspaper, the customer chose to 's'wait-and-bitch.
Etymology: proper spelling is 's'wait-and-bitch; from combining form 's' of "just" + wait + and + bitch
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COMMENTS:
Yo ! GOOD one! - metrohumanx, 2008-08-08: 17:44:00
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Critidawdle
Created by: kendriveset
Pronunciation: crit-i-dawdle
Sentence: Joan and Phil loved to critidawdle, especially when the bottled water machine was empty.
Etymology: criticize + dawdle
Stagnantagonise
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: stag-nan-tag-an-eyes
Sentence: he spent the whole staff meeting stagnantagonising that their staff meetings weren't productive because people spent the whole meeting complaining.
Etymology: stagnant, antagonise, agonise
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COMMENTS:
I've been to those meetings. They're usually followed by a wicked case of staff infractions. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-15: 09:45:00
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Fussloth
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: fuhs-sloth
Sentence: She's such a fussloth. She complains about workplace obscenity just to score with the boss while wearing that thong and miniskirt to work.
Etymology: fuss [complain] + sloth [a lazy person] + slut [I just felt like it was an important part of the etymology] :D
Gripesence
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: grahyp/es/uhnt
Sentence: Every office has two, or three incessant bitchers (women) and bastarders (men) who complain about every detail and do nothing about it except be bitchers and bastarders. This evil underlying gripesence is the single most distructive force in the workplace.
Etymology: gripe (to complain constantly) + quiescence (being quiet, still, or inactive)
Idlewhine
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: ide-l-wine
Sentence: MEMO To: All Staff From: Head Honcho OK you horrible lot, I'm sick and tired of your idlewhines. It makes this company look unprofessional. You are a lazy bunch of no goods who can't be bothered to extract a digit now and then and fix things up. If I can find enough time next year, we'll see about maybe hiring an insultant to deal with this poor behaviour. But for now, I can't find the time to address this problem, so you'll just have to put up with your gripes.
Etymology: idle + whine
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COMMENTS:
Idlewhine, idlewhine, every morning you greet me ... - petaj, 2007-06-15: 06:03:00
Oh, I see you've joined the Pick on Purple club. May the Blossom of Snow that grows in your back yard be attached to 3 shiney leaves. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-15: 06:22:00
(bloom and grow foreeeever...) - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-15: 06:38:00
You won't find any blossoms of snow in my backyard. Subtropical rainforest is more likely. (Small and white, clean and bright.. ) - petaj, 2007-06-15: 21:08:00
Poison iv-y-y-y-y, poison iv-y-y-y-y Late at night while you're sleepin' poison ivy comes a'creepin' - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-16: 00:12:00
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Whinertia
Created by: Katisms1
Pronunciation: wine-ER-sha
Sentence: Having perfected the fine art of complaining about everything and solving nothing, she could have run for Governor of the state of whinertia -- and won in a landslide.
Etymology: whine (and/or whiner) + inertia
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
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COMMENTS:
hopefully they'll flunk, then they will have something to whine about - Nosila, 2010-01-11: 23:39:00
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Megawhinge
Created by: AJR55
Pronunciation:
Sentence: All she did was megawhinge about her homework, but she never actually started it...
Etymology: mega - big, huge whinge - moan (as in complain), whine
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COMMENTS:
great start AJR55 - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-16: 00:15:00
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