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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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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.
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
Pennilynch
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: pen/nE/linch
Sentence: Michael said that he wanted to be the next Donald Trump. His friends said "Why? That sounds stupid...", so he fired them. And he never gave up on his dream. Unfortunately, he never made it either... He just pennilynched himself.
Etymology: penny+ lynch/pinch
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COMMENTS:
Nice one! - BMott, 2007-02-02: 11:37:00
great word - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-02: 12:33:00
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Masolover
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: maso lover
Sentence: please reject me i´m a masolover
Etymology: mosochist and lover
Cashifice
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: Kash - e - fise
Sentence: Lucy made the ultimate cashifice when she chose new earrings over helping out her friend Julie with rent money.
Etymology: Cash - Money, finances, dough fice - from sacrifice
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COMMENTS:
Great! Also sounds a bit like cash-orifice... - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 13:25:00
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Sacrifiscalamb
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sak rif is kal lam
Sentence: Like a born again zealot, she had pursued her selling pyramid like a religion and forsook her friends, her family and her health to acquire the top-rated status and finer things of life...her mansion, expensive cars, exotic trips and designer attire. But it was lonely counting all that money on your own. Her profit had become her prophet. On the altar of high consumerism, she had become a sacrifiscalamb.
Etymology: Sacrificial Lamb (someone or something which is given to people in authority and which is expected to be harmed or destroyed, especially in order to prevent other people or things from being harmed or destroyed) & Fiscal (involving financial matters)
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COMMENTS:
baaad! - galwaywegian, 2011-01-12: 03:58:00
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Econwhore
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation:
Sentence: That econwhore won't stop hitting on my money... I mean me.
Etymology: Enon: economy, whore: do I really need to explain that?
Lootboot
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: loot-boot
Sentence: That high class snoot gave me the lootboot.
Etymology: loot (money) + boot (kicked out)
Selfcapitate
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: self-kap-i-tayte
Sentence: The supermodel chose to selfcapitate, leaving her with nothing; but at least she was still skinnier than skin itself.
Etymology: From "self", "capital" (money) and "decapitate" (removal of the head).
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:
