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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.
Verboticisms
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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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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)
Mutualfundimentia
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: mU-tual-fun-dE-men-sha
Sentence: Jill suffers from mutualfundimentia after she to sacraficed her all to get David's affection, only to be snubbed.
Etymology: mutual fund/ dementia
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COMMENTS:
plus *fundamental* - nice word! - Alchemist, 2007-02-02: 09:17:00
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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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Sacrifiscal
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
Ebinezerscrewed
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: EBB-uh-knee-zur-SCREW-d
Sentence: I cast my lot with Madoff- I was a greedy dude. but my investments were consumed... I'm EBINEZERSCREWED! God bless us all- including Tiny Tim.
Etymology: The Dikkens, you say! (Charles Dikkens, the famous DUTCH author)
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COMMENTS:
More fun and a cool game:
http://sodaplay.com/creators/soda/items/constructor - metrohumanx, 2009-09-02: 00:33:00
Nice tie-in. - artr, 2009-09-02: 06:16:00
Hum bug(ger)! - Nosila, 2009-09-02: 12:52:00
hahaha fun word! - mweinmann, 2009-09-03: 08:02:00
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Hammerdimed
Created by: gabngar
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Dan had a fortune, but ended broke aster he was hammerdimed.
Etymology: Hammertime-From the famous song "Can't touch this" by M.C. Hammer, who had a fortune but lost it all. Dime- a ten cent coin in the U.S.
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_
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.
Masolover
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: maso lover
Sentence: please reject me i´m a masolover
Etymology: mosochist and lover
