Verboticism: Waitingruined

DEFINITION: v. To wait patiently, or perhaps not, for a little bit of medical attention and hopefully some relief from what ails you. n. A person who is sick, and tired, and waiting for medical care.
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Nausewaited
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: nau/se/wait/ed
Sentence: He nausewaited in the hospital emergency room for six hours before a doctor helped him.
Etymology: NAUSEWAITED - verb - from NAUSEATED (to feel sick) + WAIT (delay)
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COMMENTS:
Really captures the feeling of being sick. Fits the definition excellently. - silveryaspen, 2009-03-04: 11:01:00
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Ailienated
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: ale - ee - in - ate - ted
Sentence: Leroy was beginning to feel ailienated. He had been in the waiting room for two and a half days and no one had talked to him yet. Perhaps they did not want to come too close to him because he was sick.....
Etymology: Ail and Alienated - Ail is to be ill and Alienate is to make separate or not associate with.
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COMMENTS:
terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-04: 10:04:00
We can raillly around this great create - silveryaspen, 2009-03-04: 10:53:00
good one! - galwaywegian, 2009-03-04: 11:10:00
Really good. And funny in a sad way too. - kateinkorea, 2009-03-08: 10:16:00
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Illfortunato
Created by: kalex
Pronunciation: Ill-for-toon-ah-toh
Sentence: I found myself trying unsuccessfully to sink into the hard plastic seat with the rest of the IllFortunatos. My head pounded and my rag was quickly filling with blood. It would be a long night.
Etymology: Ill- to be afflicted with virus, disease, injury Fortune-can mean one's overall situation Oh-an attempt to sound somewhat foreign
Ticktoxic
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: tik tok sik
Sentence: her condition went from toxic to ticktoxic in the space of eight hours
Etymology: toxic tick tock
Grimpatient
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: grim-PAY-shunt
Sentence: Sue Ellen was doing her very best to remain cheerful but as the hours wore on and she continued to be ignored by the ER staff while feeling progressively worse she went from being an ordinary outpatient to being a grimpatient, angry and no longer a stoic and tolerant person.
Etymology: Blend of 'grim' (Dismal; gloomy) and 'patient'...dual meaning (a person who is under medical care or treatment) and (having or showing the capacity for endurance) --- a play on the word 'impatient'.
Anticipatient
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: an tis i pay shent
Sentence: The people in the ER waiting room tended to be anticipatient. They drank the awful coffee from the vending machine and then cued up for the toilets. Don't they know you do not buy it...you just rent coffee for a while?
Etymology: Anticipate (wait for) & Patient (a person who requires medical care;enduring without complaint)
Impatientitis
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: impāshəntītis
Sentence: The emergency room was packed with customers with afflictions ranging from mild to catastrophic. The loudest however was the one with a major case of impatientitis displaying raging symptoms of menow-menow.
Etymology: impatirnt (having or showing a tendency to be quickly irritated or provoked) + itis (suffix used for forming names of inflammatory diseases)
Forgetqueue
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: fərgetkyoō
Sentence: As he waits to see the doctor, Roger can feel his once-robust memory slowly slipping away. The mind-numbing process they call triage is sapping his greatest asset. The feeling of rapid-onset Alzheimers is only enhanced by browsing outdated magazines. He had already forgotten the Alamo. The Dewey Decimal System will soon follow. He is caught in a forgetqueue. He is amused that they call this Emergency Room the Urgent Care Unit. An hour later he can't remember what urgent means. He is now focused remembering his own name. If he lets that go, he knows he will never get out of here.
Etymology: forget (inadvertently neglect to attend to, do, or mention) + queue (a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed)
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COMMENTS:
Brillianty hilarious "sentence"! BRAVO! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-04: 09:44:00
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Curewaiter
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: ker + way + ter
Sentence: Since Laurie realized that so many people waited for medical attention, it was becoming a bona-fide medical problem in itself. She decided to launch a drive called "wait for the cure" where volunteers would go down to waiting rooms in hospitals, clinics and medical offices to entertain and give moral support to the curewaiters who spend hour upon frustrating hour waiting to be seen by a doctor.
Etymology: Cure + Waiter >> Cure (remedy: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain) Waiter (a person who waits or awaits)
Illdoctaramous
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: eel-doc-ta-ray-mose
Sentence: Susie patiently waited as his patient in the tiny room chilled to the bone,adorned in that tiny paper top. She had waited so long that she became so "illdoctaramous" that she almost lost it and was about to ram her fist into the wall as she flew into a rage! Yet,Susie was too sick to let my temper flare. After 2 and 1/2 hours of sickly waiting,he walks in all chipper and did not notice Susy's "illdotaramous" attitude towards him.
Etymology: Ill;sick. Doctar;Doctor. Ram;Ready to ram a fist in the wall. Ous;Beyond ready to ram a fist into the wall and too sick to care to wait any longer.
