perfunct

a state of attitudinal disengagement where employees perform only the minimum needed to retain their job i.e. get through the day,go through the motions.

Personal funk about one's job.

Dealing with perfunct government employees is often an experience in poor, half-hearted service.

by daretowin September 11, 2009

Perfunctorium

Refers to any routine, bureaucratic business office that adheres rigidly to a routine, usually small and insignificant, yet believes itself to be all-important. In the 1990s in California colleges and universities, the term originally referred to academic administrative offices peroccupied with minor, routine, or insignificant details.

The campus perfunctorium requires evidence that you had a mother before it can verify you were ever born and still eligible for more inconveniences.

by D. Healey November 10, 2011

Perfunctory

A fancier way of saying half-ass. See also #half-ass, #cursory

Girl 1: His way of addressing the problems in their relationship are perfunctory at best.
Girl 2: Jeez girl, ease up on the fancy lingo! We're not Shakespeare here.
Girl 1: You're right, my bad. My point still stands though!

by Bah Zah March 19, 2021

perfunctionist

the act of perfunctioning
ie. being generally undeniably awesome

Rebecca, stop being such a perfunctionist! God!

by That guy......... December 15, 2010

perfunction

The state of ultimate functionality.

OSX has yet to reach perfunction.

by lowercaseb February 25, 2004

perfunctory interjection

The mindless, meaningless, random and irritating interposition of a word or words into a conversational narrative or appended to it.

"So I said - like - who does she think she is?"
"I had my head in the toilet - you know - and he jumped me."
"There were plenty of busty babes on the beach - and whatnot."
"A perfunctory interjection is - like - mind-numbingly irritating."

by Shireguy July 8, 2009

prefuction

having an orgasm prematurely during foreplay with midgets

the man had a prefuction at the circus

by frank4304 March 21, 2008