Verboticism: Exasperwait
DEFINITION: v. To hover near, or directly on top of, a person who is busy doing something else, in order to force them to immediately surrender their full attention. n. A person who invades other people's private spaces and uses the social discomfort to demand attention.
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Invadaubble
Created by: sammyclark
Pronunciation: in-vaydah-buhbhu-el
Sentence: I was working on my homeowrk and she invadaubbled my space!
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
vote for meee ay - sammyclark, 2011-11-03: 15:05:00
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Focusquid
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: foh-kuh-skwid
Sentence: Denise is the office focusquid. She can slip quietly into your space and slowly wrap her tentacles around you until you have no choice but to be totally focusquid on her.
Etymology: focus (center of attention) + squid (any of several ten-armed cephalopods)
Foistaid
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: foistād
Sentence: When her boss is ready to implement what she deems an ill-advised policy, Joan administers foistaid. She will plant herself in the exec’s office until her views are heard.
Etymology: foist (impose an unwelcome or unnecessary person or thing on) + aid (a person or thing that is a source of help or assistance)
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COMMENTS:
Foist she's a jolly good fellow... - Nosila, 2010-06-17: 23:43:00
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Pestivaggressive
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: PEST iv a gress iv
Sentence: She stared into his eyes, lay sideways over his keyboard, pestivaggresively, in an effort to get a quick answer.
Etymology: From pest and aggressive - a variation of passive aggresssive. The inflicted feel aggressively pestered by those who persistently invade personal space to get attention.
Focusurper
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: foe-cus-err-per
Sentence: half way through my phone call my work cooleague focusurped me.
Etymology: focus, usurper
Smover
Created by: bdraffen0002
Pronunciation: /ˈsməvər/
Sentence: He smovered over me all day while I was trying to author silly definitions.
Etymology: Smother:Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘stifling smoke’): from the base of Old English smorian ‘suffocate.’ and Hover: late Middle English: from archaic hove ‘hover, linger,’ of unknown origin.
Talkblock
Created by: tituba
Pronunciation: talk-block
Sentence: she was talkblocking him when he was trying to work
Etymology: talkblock- to interupt when somebody is doing something important and have all the attention on you.
Hovertend
Created by: arrrteest
Pronunciation: huv-er-tend
Sentence: Interaction between members of the Johnson household was sparse. Spencer, who was 6 years old, usually would be off playing with his toys or running around outside with his friends, but whenever his mother or father reached for the phone, like a sixth sense, he would somehow migrate to the area and begin to hovertend until his parents would get fed up and yell at him to leave. Janet tried to get her husband to pay attention to her by hovertending in front of the football game on TV topless while he moved from side to side to see better. Even Noodles the cat would get into the act. Noodles would usually hide or be out of the way of anyone, unless it wanted food. In that case, if would plop down right in front of the TV set or on top of the newspaper while you were reading it until you fed it.
Etymology: hover, to keep lingering about; wait near at hand + tend, To apply one's attention
Askinvader
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: ask-n-vay-der
Sentence: Alice was such an askinvader to anyone that didn't give her their full attention.
Etymology: Ask - To question and Invade - someone who enters by force in order to conquer.
Invabus
Created by: carliejansen
Pronunciation: in-va-bus
Sentence: I was just trying to finish my project due for school the next day when my sister came in and invabused me.
Etymology: In-in, into, upon, on, at, among