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'Sorry, but you're not my type'

DEFINITION: v. To sacrifice your health, your family, and even a few friends to money, only to discover that money doesn't like you. n. A sacrifice made for money that goes unrewarded.

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Cashflicted

Created by: chofu67

Pronunciation: cash flick ted

Sentence: Cashflicted Chad drifted off to the dark edges of the reunion hall when his material emblems of success were ignored by classmates who viewed him as the same loathesome character they had belittled fifteen years earlier.

Etymology: cash + conflicted

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Mammonogamy

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: mam mon og ummy

Sentence: having recieved his fifteenth brush off in as many weeks, Bill decided to end his mammonogamous ways and reduce the bulge in his pocket.

Etymology: mammon and monogamy

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Cashtrate

Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: cash-trait

Sentence: "Looks like Doug cashtrated himself. He risked everything on that stock and lost."

Etymology: cash + castrate

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Mammonerd

Created by: w5lf9s

Pronunciation: ma.men.urd

Sentence: It was when everyone had turned away and noone returned his calls that he finally realized that he had become a mammonerd

Etymology: from "mammon"- wealth regarded as an evil influence and "nerd" - a pejorative applied to people with an above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and common social rituals

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Cacashtrophy

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ka kash tra fee

Sentence: His life was a cacastrophy, he felt as he walked around dollerously

Etymology: catastrophy, cash

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Faustify

Created by: mickey666

Pronunciation: fowstifi

Sentence: The pursuit of wealth is all I crave. I must faustify.

Etymology: From Christopher Marlowe's creation, Doctor Faustus.

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Profittear

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: prof-i-tār

Sentence: Working to the detriment of one’s home life is the classic sign of a profittear.

Etymology: Profit (gain resulting from use of capital) + tear (to cause pain, bitterness)

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Idollartry

Created by: Guthlaf1

Pronunciation: eye-DOLL-a-TREE

Sentence: Brian succumbed to idollartry at age 8, when he discovered that stealing his sister's tooth-fairy money made him twice as rich....

Etymology: idolatry = worship of a false god + dollar = a common unit of currency

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Jinglejanglejilted

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: jin-gle-jan-gle-jil-ted

Sentence: The silvery tinkle of coinage in his pocket reminded Jim of his unrequited attraction to Lady Luck. He knew he was always destined to be jinglejanglejilted.

Etymology: Jingle-jangle: thin, tinkling metallic sound such as coinage, tambourines, ("In the jingle-jangle morning I'll come following you"-Bob Dylan) or spurs ("I got spurs that jingle-jangle-jingle as I go riding merrily along" -Gene Autry) + jilted: rejected, spurned

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COMMENTS:

Great, now you've stuck 2 songs in my head! - Nosila, 2009-09-03: 01:34:00

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Econowhered

Created by: ahwinters

Pronunciation: echo + know + whered

Sentence: She gave up all of her friends for that hihg-paying job that left her econowhered.

Etymology: economics + nowhere

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