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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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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
Macbethen
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /"m&k-'beth-&n/
Sentence: After MacBethening his way from Thane of Glamis to Thane of Cawdor to King of Scotland, MacBeth was killed by a man who wasn't born and a forest.
Etymology: From Shakespeare's play _MacBeth_
Sacrifunk
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
Bucksflat
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: buks-flat
Sentence: The enjoyment he derived from each successful investment appeared to be negatively correlated with his increasing wealth. By the time he realised this, his wife had already left, unable to compete with the FTSE 100 for his affections. The vastest magnum of champagne could not disguise the fact he had a serious case of bucksflat.
Etymology: bucks fizz + flat
Overtwotimer
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)
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
Cashtrate
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: kash-strait
Sentence: Wallace cashtrated himself when he started working 80 hours a week -- he found that money was no good without someone to spend it with.
Etymology: Cash + castrate
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COMMENTS:
Good stuff, sounds fitting painful. - Bulletchewer, 2007-02-02: 10:30:00
*fittingly Sorry, 'tis Friday. - Bulletchewer, 2007-02-02: 10:31:00
Viciously excellent - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 10:33:00
made for a man - but I like it too (Irish accent optional) - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-02: 11:27:00
Nice one! - BMott, 2007-02-02: 13:28:00
Best word of the day! Says it all in a quick slicing manner!! Rich and a high voice to join the choir!!! - Stevenson0, 2007-02-02: 15:54:00
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Cashjacked
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.
Etymology:
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
Billbusting
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: bill/bus/ting
Sentence: All decades of billbusting got him was a solitary life and an empty sac (oops sack)
Etymology: ball busting + bill (as in dollar bill)
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COMMENTS:
Well, at least he emptied his sac... - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 11:36:00
ha ha - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-02: 12:41:00
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