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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.
Verboticisms
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Sympatigo
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: simmm pat eye gow
Sentence: He was tres sympatigo, nodding sympathetically while reversing out the door
Etymology: sympatico, I go
Compassionot
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kəmpashənät
Sentence: As much as Judy saw heads nodding as she explained her dilemma, when it came down to getting help, her coworkers are decidedly compassionot. What she later discovered was that upper management had replaced a number of her coworkers with life-sized bobbleheads.
Etymology: compassionate (feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others) + not (used to express the negative of other words)
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COMMENTS:
good one - galwaywegian, 2011-02-02: 09:53:00
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Ironian
Created by: newszi
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Sally asked Cindy, about Joe might be able to help them. Sally answered: -Don't bother, he's an Ironian When you ask for help you need the most, all you get is Ironians'. Joe's answers are an Ironian's, he newer keeps himself to them.
Etymology: irony + answer or irony +an
Pathetinance
Created by: rickki
Pronunciation: path-et-in-ans
Sentence: Tony showed pathetinance towards Sonia, as she asked for help yesterday.
Etymology:
Fauxgetfullness
Created by: urbanwookie
Pronunciation: foh-get-fool-ness
Sentence: When challenged by his boss, James blamed his inaction on his chronic fauxgetfullness.
Etymology: faux + forgetfullness (contraction)
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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Sympathesia
Created by: mja188
Pronunciation: sym-pa-th-e-z-a
Sentence: It didn't matter how horrible the story Jim always seemed to suffer from sympathesia
Etymology: Sympathy and amensia
Empathotomy
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: empa/thot/amy
Sentence: His unique skill in performing an empathotomy was known not only by his colleagues but also by his superiors.
Etymology: empathize + lobotomy
Empathesia
Created by: bettyann9
Pronunciation: em-path-eezha
Sentence: She was so skilled at the art of empathesia that her friends never suspected she was transforming herself into a lawnmower even as she listened intently to their inane stories.
Etymology: Empathy+amnesia
Beingamanager
Created by: euclid
Pronunciation: being-a-manager
Sentence: Jason just totally exhibited empathy and love for Tina, but he was just beingamanager.
Etymology: ...
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by erasmus.
Thank you erasmus! ~ James
Thanks James! shame I cant think of a word this time though, boo!
Today's definition was suggested by erasmus. Thank you erasmus. ~ James