Verboticisms

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: loo krot ah mee

Sentence: it was worse than addiction it was lucrotomy.

Etymology: from lucre and surgically removing something you need.

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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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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ka kash tra fee

Sentence: His life was a cacastrophy, he felt as he walked around dollerously

Etymology: catastrophy, cash

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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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Created by: coffeeman885

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: buk/bid/plt/i/pus

Sentence: After years of worshiping the almighty dollar he found he had created a buckbilledplatypus that kept chasing him around and biting his ass

Etymology: duck-billed platypus + buck (dollar)

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COMMENTS:

Sounds like a platinum credit card. - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 10:42:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: pro fay tchur

Sentence: Buck Chaser had always gone after Dame Fortune and sacrificed everything to be her Real love. He risked profeiture to spend the rest of his days with the lovely Ms. Money. He always had a Yen to have her and he was so Rand-y,he would Lira after her. Finally she had to confront him: "Buck, Let me be Franc with you...Euro becoming a Zloty and a Drachma and I want to Krone you with so many Pounds they will leave a Mark on you. Can't you see Cents? In my opinion, we have a Peso-mistic future together. If you don't Peseta off soon, I will have Robert Dinero take your neck and Ringgit and have you Guildered, before he throws you on the Ruble heap! Yuan to know the Buck stops here!"

Etymology: Profit (the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) & Forfeiture (the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.)

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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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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: 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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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).

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