Verboticism: Brieffriend
DEFINITION: v. To listen intently and sympathize with your colleagues when they request assistance, and then to simply, and completely, forget about it. n. The ability to sympathize with, yet ignore, requests for help.
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Alzhumours
Created by: w5lf9s
Pronunciation: ahls.hu.mers
Sentence: When she reminded him the third time to print out that report for her, she began to wonder whether he might be suffering from that particular form of Alzhumour's she had read about.
Etymology: Alzheimer's disease (the first symtoms of which are forgetfulness) + to humour someone
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COMMENTS:
Maybe he just considered she was a lazy cow who knew perfectly well how to hit the print button. - petaj, 2007-02-27: 17:42:00
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Usefail
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: yous - fayl
Sentence: Lorne proved to be usefail most of the time. Louise thought he cared, thought he understood her problem and then thought he wanted to help but for some reason, he never was able to.
Etymology: useful, fail
Avoiquest
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: av oi quest
Sentence: Frank was the most renown for avoiquesting in the office. Ask him anything and you can bet tomorrow he wont remember any of it.
Etymology: from avoid and request.
Ipodnod
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: I/pod/nod
Sentence: He was a master of the ipodnod. He looked intensely interested but he was really listening to his favorite tunes
Etymology: ipod + nod
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COMMENTS:
Is this a confession? - wordmeister, 2007-02-27: 19:31:00
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Helpmenot
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: HELP-ME-not
Sentence: Bobby's helpmenot traits vexed his dwindling circle of friends.
Etymology: help me (assist me) + not
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Empathetic
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: em/pa/theh/tik
Sentence: Our IT team is very empathetic. They listen attentively to our problems and then promptly forget about them.
Etymology: empathy + pathetic
Helpologize
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: help-o-lo-gize
Sentence: Saba helpologize when i asked her to help me out in my assignment as she got to do something.
Etymology: help + apologize
Unteamful
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: un-teem-fil
Sentence: "Wow, Doug didn't even bother following up on his promise to help me out. He is so unteamful!"
Etymology: team
Vagless
Created by: aj3131
Pronunciation: Vag-less
Sentence: Every dude can be vagless.
Etymology: well you guys know what is meant.
Egosponge
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: ege-spunge
Sentence: However he always listen very carefully when you ask him something, he never do it. He's a egosponge.
Etymology: ego from egoist + sponge from his memory is like a sponge
