Today’s Wordbird: PROCRASTIDATE

PROCRASTIDATE (V.) pro-‘kras-ti-dayt 1) To put off attempting to date anyone for various reasons (e.g., workaholism, intimacy issues, laziness, dearth of prospects, addiction to WoW or Call of Duty). 2) To date unseriously, in order to put off (until never) getting involved with someone to whom you could become genuinely attached. Usage: Rob was well-liked at the office, where he worked long hours, and outside the office, where he struck people as funny and confident. But he never asked anyone out. He told himself he’d get around to it, but for the moment, he was happy procrastidating.

European Starlings on the Fence, by Elizabeth Zechel

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Liesl Schillinger is a New York-based writer and translator, whose criticism, essay, features and other work have appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Gourmet Live, The New Yorker, New Yor ...read more