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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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Cashtrate
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: cash-trait
Sentence: "Looks like Doug cashtrated himself. He risked everything on that stock and lost."
Etymology: cash + castrate
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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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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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)
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
Paininthecash
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: pāninðəkash
Sentence: Buck worked at a job he hated his entire adult life for the promise of a comfortable retirement. Now that he is nearing that time, all the recession has in store for him is a paininthecash.
Etymology: A play off of \"pain in the ass\"
Cacashtrophy
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ka kash tra fee
Sentence: His life was a cacastrophy, he felt as he walked around dollerously
Etymology: catastrophy, cash
