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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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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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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
Jinglejanglejilted
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: jin-gle-jan-gle-jil-ted
Sentence: The silvery tinkle of coinage in his pocket reminded Jim of his unrequited attraction to Lady Luck. He knew he was always destined to be jinglejanglejilted.
Etymology: Jingle-jangle: thin, tinkling metallic sound such as coinage, tambourines, ("In the jingle-jangle morning I'll come following you"-Bob Dylan) or spurs ("I got spurs that jingle-jangle-jingle as I go riding merrily along" -Gene Autry) + jilted: rejected, spurned
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COMMENTS:
Great, now you've stuck 2 songs in my head! - Nosila, 2009-09-03: 01:34:00
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Kennethlaid
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: ken-eth-lade
Sentence: Bob had it all - the house, the yacht, the cars, the girls, but when a once-close friend sued him for breach of contract, he found himself kennethlaid and penniless.
Etymology: Kennth Lay - infamous, corrupt CEO of Enron; laid - have sex with, but not in a good way
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COMMENTS:
Good! It's tough being "the smartest guy in the room", when you're also broke... - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 11:01:00
In my personal opinion, he suffered from monerrhea, and should have sought professional help from psychiatrists instead of accountants. - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-02: 18:17:00
I don't get it. At all. - BMott, 2007-02-06: 03:04:00
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Fauxriche
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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Dismise
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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Souldout
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: sold-out
Sentence: no-one was returning his calls, he had nowhere to sleep and his liver was beyond repair...if only he hadn't completely souldout
Etymology: soul, sold out
Mephistophelose
Created by: kyotonils
Pronunciation: meh•fuh•staw'•fuh•lews'
Sentence: All he can think about is making money, but a mephistopheloser like him is bound to end up chasing his tail.
Etymology: From Faust's devil, Mephistopheles
Mammonogamy
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: mam mon og ummy
Sentence: having recieved his fifteenth brush off in as many weeks, Bill decided to end his mammonogamous ways and reduce the bulge in his pocket.
Etymology: mammon and monogamy
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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