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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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Masolover
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: maso lover
Sentence: please reject me i´m a masolover
Etymology: mosochist and lover
Wadfraud
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: wod/frod
Sentence: A case of wadfraud involving far too many misbegotten miracles he hadn't expected left him with an inability to worship the Almighty Dollar as he had in the past.
Etymology: wad + fraud
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.
Profittear
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: prof-i-tār
Sentence: Working to the detriment of one’s home life is the classic sign of a profittear.
Etymology: Profit (gain resulting from use of capital) + tear (to cause pain, bitterness)
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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Unmidasize
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: uhn-MY-dah-size
Sentence: Jim grew up in a typical middle-class home, comfortable enough, but his post-college determination to make a killing in hog futures unmidasized his life.
Etymology: un, prefix of reversal + Midas, whose touch turned everything to gold + ize, verb ending
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)
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.
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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