procrastubatory

[Paul Frank]

In a wonderfully witty passage* about writer's block in Half Empty,
David Rakoff writes "And so another day fails to meet its promise and
has spun out into procrasturbatory entropy."

Proscrasturbatory is new to me. Only 29 raw hits. But procrasturbation
gets 2,770 results. It's not in the OED and in the unlikely event that
you can't guess what it means, it's in the Urban Dictionary, which
some consider a lexicographical cloaca but I find to be a useful
resource for my own version of procrasturbation, which is to look up
words I don't know.

*I have yet to come across a passage that's not wonderfully witty in
Rakoff's book.

Paul

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