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DEFINITION: v. To complain and complain about a problem without ever taking action to correct it. n. A complaint about something which you can fix but choose not to.
Verboticisms
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Comstain
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: com - stain
Sentence: Rather than fix the windshield, Peter felt like the spidered glass added a great comstain ice breaker during his car pooling trips.
Etymology: Complain - Sustain (sounds offensive but not intended)
Annoyocity
Created by: flippinsweetswim
Pronunciation: an-oy-os-i-tee
Sentence: She just wont stop complaning! How Annoyocity
Etymology:
Wallution
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: wall-u-tion
Sentence: Is she actually upset that herc lothes don't match?? ... no, she just picked out clashing clothes this morning because she enjoys walluting
Etymology: from wallow + solution
Gripesence
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: grahyp/es/uhnt
Sentence: Every office has two, or three incessant bitchers (women) and bastarders (men) who complain about every detail and do nothing about it except be bitchers and bastarders. This evil underlying gripesence is the single most distructive force in the workplace.
Etymology: gripe (to complain constantly) + quiescence (being quiet, still, or inactive)
Moanelude
Created by: sanssouci
Pronunciation: mown ee lood
Sentence: "Or though I might have come across as a negitive person who always had something to complain about, I actually enjoyed my regular moaneludes because I got to talk to someone."
Etymology: Moan - Complain to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault Elude - Avoid knowingly, To evade or escape from, as by daring, cleverness, or skill.
Deridleness
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: di-RAHYD-l-nis
Sentence: Gracie's incessant deridling was symptomatic of her untenable hypocrisycophancy. She was even heard complaining to the boss about the tissues in her own wastebasket.
Etymology: deride + idleness
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COMMENTS:
That's snot Gracie, that's Ingracieous. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-15: 09:32:00
Lord nose! - Clayton, 2007-06-15: 18:13:00
Snorting with laughter! This sentence could be the pick of the day! - petaj, 2007-06-15: 21:12:00
That'd be so upsniffting. - Clayton, 2007-06-15: 23:10:00
Love grows where my Rosemary goes And nobody nose like me (sung by Pinochio) - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-16: 00:10:00
Haha. There's no business like nose business. (Sung by a plastic surgeon.) - Clayton, 2007-06-16: 02:59:00
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Aggrivshun
Created by: keeno82uk
Pronunciation: Ag-reev-shun
Sentence: Paula suffered from Aggrivshun, so much so that the gossip in the workplace was left to fester until aggrivshun had to take a backseat and the problem solved.
Etymology:
Gripesansameliorate
Created by: SnatchRaffle
Pronunciation: Gr ipe san sa meal io rate
Sentence: Dennis I am so sick of your gripesansameliorating! If you are bored go outside and play. Or take a nap! Ed is just a crotchety old gripesansameliorate. I don't think I've ever seen him actually work. Just sits there, and laments that his children never call.
Etymology: Gripe: complain, whine Sans: without Ameliorate: to make better
Whinals
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: whine-als
Sentence: Peg and Steve were habitchual whinals. At the end of every term they start to complain and carry on as if they didn't know there would be a final exam. If they had gone to class and studied instead of sitting around the cafeteria kvetching about their professors they wouldn't have to worry so much.
Etymology: whine:complain or protest in a childish fashion to + final: of or constituting the end result of a succession or process
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COMMENTS:
hopefully they'll flunk, then they will have something to whine about - Nosila, 2010-01-11: 23:39:00
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Critidawdle
Created by: kendriveset
Pronunciation: crit-i-dawdle
Sentence: Joan and Phil loved to critidawdle, especially when the bottled water machine was empty.
Etymology: criticize + dawdle
Comments:
Still bothered by office politics? Well, as Timothy Johnson advises in GUST, it's time quit complaining and take action, or at least, it's time to make up a new word about complaining... Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram and Timothy! ~ James
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Robert J. Sawyer, winner of Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, will be our featured author at Verbotomy next week. See Get a Science-Fiction Verbotomy from Robert J. Sawyer. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James