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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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Buckbilledplatypus
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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Lucrotomy
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.
Sacrimoney
Created by: jbricandy
Pronunciation: Sa-cri-money
Sentence: He made sacrimoney. He deceived his friends and still failed to find the money.
Etymology:
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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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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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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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
Cashtrate
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: cash-trait
Sentence: "Looks like Doug cashtrated himself. He risked everything on that stock and lost."
Etymology: cash + castrate
Idollartry
Created by: Guthlaf1
Pronunciation: eye-DOLL-a-TREE
Sentence: Brian succumbed to idollartry at age 8, when he discovered that stealing his sister's tooth-fairy money made him twice as rich....
Etymology: idolatry = worship of a false god + dollar = a common unit of currency
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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