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Message board > "WORD of the DAY" Competition, 10/02/2013
"WORD of the DAY" Competition, 10/02/2013
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ldthemagicman
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"WORD of the DAY" Competition, 10/02/2013
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Dear Members,
Today�s �Word of the Day� is:
�Misodoctakleidist�
Let�s have your definitions.
Sensible or senseless; worthy or worthless; tasteful or tasteless; useful or useless; arty or artless; cheerful or cheerless; thoughtful or thoughtless; brainy or brainless; stylish or style-less; careful or careless; weighty or weightless; pitiful or pitiless; valuable or valueless; humorous or humourless; soulful or soulless; pointed or pointless; meaningful or meaningless; cirro-nimbus or cirro-cumulus; Les Douglas or Des Lugless; more and more or less and less � � � �
Well, you get the idea, don�t you!
All the Best!
Les Douglas |
9 Feb 2013
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MoodyMoody
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Misodoctakleidist: a fashion designer who specializes in clothing with depressing messages
Mis(o): short for miserable
doc(t): short for document
kleid: German word for dress
ist: person |
9 Feb 2013
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Jayho
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A Misodoctakleidist
is a fellow as-usual-unprepared colleague who likes to �accidently� spill miso soup (or anything liquid really) on the eslprintables handouts you have painstakingly spent your morning break photocopying because, as usual, they wanted a copy of it and you, as usual, have been suggesting they upload printables so they too can gain the many benefits of the site. They take but never give back ...
I�m sure we all know one or two Misodoctakleidists 
Cheers
Jayho |
9 Feb 2013
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MarionG
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a young lady who loves to dress up as a doctor........ |
10 Feb 2013
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cunliffe
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A misodoctakleidist is a person. So far, so good. He or she is usually myopic and shambolic, an unfortunate combination. (I should know!). They are always shuffling papers, usually borrowed or nicked from other colleagues, putting them down in inappropriate places - other colleagues � desks, under the chairs in the staffroom, etc and then, not bothering to pick them up! This causes clutter, in some cases, mountains of papers to accrue, to everybody �s annoyance. These misodoctakleidists don �t worry, they just move on, heads down, to the next set of papers.
Here is the breakdown: Mis - mislay doc - documents tackle - doesn �t tackle the problem leid (pronounced lyde) short for backslider.
Lynne |
10 Feb 2013
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ueslteacher
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Misodoctakleidist is a person (one of your friends maybe:) who is very organized and always gets after you when you miss your doctor �s appointment (again!) and tells you to tackle your idiosity and start making lists of things to do just like they do and never miss anything. Sophia |
10 Feb 2013
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sarguero
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Les, everytime you propose a new word I think about the possibility of doing the "Harakiri" with my english dictionary 
Misodoctakleidist: It �s how I feel when I miss my beautiful and gorgeous doctor Miss Klein
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10 Feb 2013
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GAZA_CHILD
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Misodoctakleidist = a female doctor who advises males on how to tackle ladies |
10 Feb 2013
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mohamedthabet
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�Misodoctakleidist� can be a person who hates (miso) being treated (miso, tackle) by physicians (doct) dressed (kleid) in their uniform. In other words, it �s a patient suffering from doctor-dress phobia.
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10 Feb 2013
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miyoko71
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miso=not good doc=doctor takle=do with eidist=eid in arabic is a religious feast , let �s say sacrifice feast so "Misodoctakleidist" is a doctor whose speciality is to cure those people who eat a lot of meat the first day of sacrifice feast so that they have stomach troubles |
10 Feb 2013
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elderberrywine
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It �s a secretary who was fired because her typing was so lousy and who is now suffering from depression and going through five packets of tissue per day, due to her crying endlessly.
To tell you the truth, her mother had always told her where her loose ways during secretarial college were going to lead her - if all you think about is men and color varieties of nail varnish you are bound to miss out on your typing, miss important parts of the class, remain clueless etc.
But then, who listens to mothers.
So there she is, the poor clueless misodoctakleidist , sobbing her heart out and convinced she �ll never find another job.
Which she won �t, this one was her last chance-
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11 Feb 2013
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