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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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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
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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Forfeitune
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)
Trifle
Created by: Headcrab
Pronunciation: trile
Sentence: He trifled with oil investments before being killed by a moustached oil baron. |-> "I hope that this coffee shop doesn't become a trifle."
Etymology: Old English: trifle. The Old English' usage of the word was used sarcastically when explaining a short lived venture in the past.
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COMMENTS:
Hopefully this verbotomic isn't a mere trifle. - Headcrab, 2012-06-09: 05:31:00
I hope that this coffee shop doesn't become a trifle - Headcrab, 2012-06-09: 05:33:00
Oops. Delete... - Headcrab, 2012-06-09: 05:33:00
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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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Econowhered
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: echo + know + whered
Sentence: She gave up all of her friends for that hihg-paying job that left her econowhered.
Etymology: economics + nowhere
Demonetary
Created by: mbacon
Pronunciation: dee mon i tare ee
Sentence: Scrooge live a demonetary life until he was reformed by the three spirits
Etymology: Combination of demon, meaning an agent of evil and monetary, meaning relating to money
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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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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