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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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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
Doomshark
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: DOOM-Shark
Sentence: Feelbad world, along with a daily dose of dread and damnation, flowed frenetically across the airwaves every evening, delivered by a diamond-dripping doomshark preaching tarabolical times ahead for mankind. But for those faithful who fawnishly followed this foolmonger, and his fickle-feel philosophy, there was much more to fear from him here on terra firma, for financial fleecing was his forte.
Etymology: A conflation of "doom": death, ruin, sad or evil destiny & "shark", (slangish): confidence trickster, parasite, crooked business person (as in land shark, loan shark).
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COMMENTS:
A is for alliteration. ;) - Kyoti, 2007-08-10: 11:03:00
I hate it i just wanted to vote because i know you wont win - BellaRina, 2007-08-10: 11:39:00
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Propheteers
Created by: marnee4nothin
Pronunciation: prau-fet-ears
Sentence: Cal hoped that his 'Save the Cumquat' campaign would establish his career among his fellow propheteers.
Etymology: prophet + profiteers
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COMMENTS:
Propheteers: they've been around since cocky was an egg. Now we have a great word for them. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-10: 21:57:00
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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
Terrorcorp
Created by: GreenTara
Pronunciation: Terror-Corp
Sentence: All the terrorcorps competed with one another to scare the public the most - for the most profit.
Etymology: terror-fear, corp-corporation
Mourdochity
Created by: tubeyes
Pronunciation: mer-dah-kit-ee
Sentence: Sean was quite happy when his televised rantings produced a state of general mourdochity over the TV watching public.
Etymology: Morbidity and Murdoch [of the Rubert persuasion]
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
Genosavior
Created by: loofarama
Pronunciation: gen-oh-save-yer
Sentence: The world is gonna explode from over-heating of the earths core... unless you buy ice, thats right, ice, but not just any ice, magic ice.
Etymology: genocide-savior
Ecounlogist
Created by: Metalflower
Pronunciation:
Sentence: When bird flu hit the world, Ecounlogists made millions of dollars by selling face masks, which didn't help at all.
Etymology: Ecologist, unlogic
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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Comments:
iwasatripwire - 2007-08-12: 01:27:00
repeat!