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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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Coinitis

Created by: Madamemojo

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Sacrimoney

Created by: jbricandy

Pronunciation: Sa-cri-money

Sentence: He made sacrimoney. He deceived his friends and still failed to find the money.

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Demonetary

Created by: mbacon

Pronunciation: dee mon i tare ee

Sentence: Scrooge live a demonetary life until he was reformed by the three spirits

Etymology: Combination of demon, meaning an agent of evil and monetary, meaning relating to money

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Jackjilted

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: jac/jil/ted

Sentence: He was totally jackjilted by the only thing he really ever cared for in his life.

Etymology: jack (slang for money) + jilted

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COMMENTS:

Poor Jack! Poor Jill... Things must of been tough for the whole family. - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 11:11:00

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Pennyfool

Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: PEH-knee-fool

Sentence: Lance is such a pennyfool! He drove halfway across the state to save 2 cents a gallon on gas...

Etymology: penny + fool

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COMMENTS:

Hey Alchemist, sounds like my word, only it's nicer... - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 11:09:00

such plentiful pennypinching... - Alchemist, 2007-02-02: 13:01:00

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Unmidasize

Created by: maxxy

Pronunciation: uhn-MY-dah-size

Sentence: Jim grew up in a typical middle-class home, comfortable enough, but his post-college determination to make a killing in hog futures unmidasized his life.

Etymology: un, prefix of reversal + Midas, whose touch turned everything to gold + ize, verb ending

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Autocashtrate

Created by: dwingillinois

Pronunciation: ah' toh KASH trayt

Sentence: While $1,000,000 was a lot of money, I had to consider if it would be worth it to potentially autocashtrate myself.

Etymology: auto (self) + cash (money) + castrate (ouch!)

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COMMENTS:

Good one! - BMott, 2007-02-02: 11:38:00

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Missedfortunate

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: misd-ˈfor-chuh-net

Sentence: Like all his past endeavors Clyde's latest pursuit of a killing in the market fell flat, and he remains broke, friendless and chronically missedfortunate.

Etymology: Blend of missed and fortunate.

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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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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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