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Voluntell is when you volunteer someone else to do something and then tell them to do it.
I'll just voluntell Jim to give that speech tomorrow.
Voluntell by Lascivious October 19, 2016
Word of the Day on January 6, 2022
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(verb) To unwittingly volunteer someone's services without allowing them the oportunity to decline.

Variations: voluntelling, voluntold
"Who are we gonna get to finish copying and collating the TPS reports?"

"I'll voluntell Steve to take care of it."
voluntell by Nick Rassenti July 26, 2007

voluntelling

To ask a question that's really a demand.
RJ (in front of client): Tim, would you mind revising that proposal for us?

Tim: Sure, thanks for voluntelling me.
voluntelling by rjtalyor May 5, 2008
someone tells a person what to do suspecting that the person would agree to volunteer to do it although that person hasn't really volunteered to do it yet
My wife is likely to voluntell me to help at her charity.
voluntell by bobcatbobby June 29, 2015
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026
Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread
Jarlic by YSAC fanboy June 6, 2020
Word of the Day on May 30, 2026