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DEFINITION: An individual, or an organization, which profits by selling fear of imminent global destruction and/or eternal damnation.
Verboticisms
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Kachingdomcome
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: ka-ching-dum-kum
Sentence: When pigs failed to fly on 7/7/07, Liz realized she had given her life savings to a kachingdomcome.
Etymology: ka-ching! (sound associated with cashing in), kingdom come
Menacemonger
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: men-iss-mong-ger
Sentence: If only they'd menacemnonger the industries that pollute and destroy the environment.
Etymology: menace + monger
Greenfleece
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: GREEN-fleece
Sentence: Although Harriet had submitted her application 18 months ago, along with the $495 membership fee, she suddenly began to realize that she may not have been selected as an elite member of Greenfleece.
Etymology: Green (money) + Greenpeace + fleece (rip off)
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COMMENTS:
A growing trend. Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-10: 21:54:00
I like it as a verb, too - xtine, 2007-08-13: 16:42:00
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Manifeto
Created by: fensketo
Pronunciation: man-a-feet-oh
Sentence: Man if I wasn't manifeto I wouldn't be a loser!
Etymology: Man - Feet
Ecoporium
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: echo-pour-ee-um
Sentence: I went to the ecoporium today. I needed to assuage my guilt from overconsumerism and fear of global destruction by indulging in some retail therapy. So I put some pure wool gloves, knitted by hand in the Gobi Desert, sailed across the ocean and delivered by Prius to the shops. I put them on my carboncredit card.
Etymology: ecology + emporium
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COMMENTS:
You have to watch out that those carboncredit cards don't catch a light a burn a hole in your pocket. - petaj, 2007-08-12: 02:44:00
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Opside
Created by: coolkids58
Pronunciation: apsid
Sentence: theres an opside organasation that guy is a opside
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
o=organization p=profits s=selling i=imminent d=distruction/damnation - coolkids58, 2007-08-10: 10:32:00
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Ecolojesus
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: ee + col + oh + jeez + us
Sentence: Oh, don't worry about that guy - he just another ecolojesus... he's worried about the effect of dog hair on our planet.
Etymology: ecology + jesus
Terramageddonist
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: tear-uh-muh-ged-un-ist
Sentence: We have stopped inviting Cathy to the beach with us. Her terramageddonist reminders of how the beach sand which sticks to our feet increases erosion and leads to the extinction of all sea turtles, is too much for us to bear.
Etymology: terra (Earth) + armegeddon (end of Earth) + ist (pertaining to a person/organization); also, the tie with "terror" and "terrorist"
Preachleecher
Created by: Paradox
Pronunciation:
Sentence: It has become clear that a lot of figures that demand attention for their religion or for the Earth are nothing more than preachleechers.
Etymology: Basically a combination of a preacher, someone who preaches, and a leecher, which seems pretty self-explanatory if you ask me.
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COMMENTS:
Beware: perfidious prunellas are proliferating! Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-10: 22:00:00
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Destructimination
Created by: kellii3
Pronunciation: destruct im in ation
Sentence: do not beleive all of the destructimination scams that people use to scare the money from us.
Etymology: destruct - destruct imin - imminent ation - destruction
Comments:
iwasatripwire - 2007-08-12: 01:27:00
repeat!