Verboticism: Preciouscosious

'Why are you still working on your resume?'

DEFINITION: v. To obsessively work on, shine and polish something which has no intrinsic value. n. A item which has lots of imagined shine in the eyes of the owner, but no real value for anyone else.

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Preciouscosious

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: pre/shush/coe/shush

Sentence: Gollum would be considered preciouscosious in his obsession with the ring.

Etymology: precious + precosious

Points: 899

Comments: Preciouscosious

metrohumanx - 2009-03-10: 12:26:00
Wow.Looks intimidating, but once you pronounce it, you can get into the hobbit of using it.

Mustang - 2009-03-11: 00:00:00
Great word!

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