Verboticisms

Created by: Sed8ed

Pronunciation: cash-jack-t

Sentence: He knew he'd become cashjacked when his business went belly up, and none of his friends knew his number anymore.

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: fo-reesh

Sentence: Carla was a member of the new fauxriche. She had not been true to her friends in her failed quest for wealth and now found herself alone and poor.

Etymology: faux (false) + riche (rich)

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COMMENTS:

All those sacrifces and nothing? I think Carla has it worse than Jim... - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 10:37:00

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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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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ōvərtutaɪmər

Sentence: Every time Tim tried works extra hours to get ahead, life becomes an overtwotimer. Some kind of monetary crisis will jump up to put him further behind.

Etymology: overtime (time worked beyond one’s scheduled working hours) + two-timer (deceive or be unfaithful to a lover or spouse)

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: sak - re - fisk - cal

Sentence: Judd felt like the sacrifiscal lamb being led to slaughter. He had put all of his time and resources into accumulating enough money to keeping up with the Joneses and then the Joneses moved away.

Etymology: sacrificial, fiscal

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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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Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: diss-myze

Sentence: Miss Ebenezer dismised her father completely, after his last will and testament had been suitably altered in her favour.

Etymology: Dismiss + miser. Has a similar meaning to dismiss - "to dismiss because of the priority of money in one's life".

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COMMENTS:

NB Americans may feel that the spelling should be 'dismize', but I couldn't do that without losing the reference to 'miser'. - Discoveria, 2007-02-02: 04:36:00

Don't worry, Americans aren't miserly with letters... Use as many as you want! - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 11:07:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: buhkt

Sentence: Alan wanted so much to get ahead on his bills. He just wanted to be able to take his girlfriend out to a nice dinner without having to skip meals for the rest of the week so he jumped at the chance to work overtime. He upset his mother by cancelling their weekly get together and majorly annoyed his roommate who was non-too-happy about walking his dog to pull an over-nighter. When he went to his car in the morning to retrieve a change of clothes, he found a ticket, whose fine exceeded all the extra cash he had just earned. BUCKED AGAIN!

Etymology: buck (money) + "another word that rhymes with buck" (screwed)

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: sack-ri-funk

Sentence: Bill was in a sacrifunk after giving up everything only to find that he had lost everything by giving it up.

Etymology: sacrifice + funk

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: for fet tyoon

Sentence: When Billy lost the lovely Miranda to a wealthier man, he soon discovered that old Beatles' forfeitune, "Can't Buy Me Love..."

Etymology: Forfeit (surrender;sacrifice something) & Fortune (money;a large amount of wealth or prosperity)

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