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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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Cashjacked
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: cash-jack-t
Sentence: He knew he'd become cashjacked when his business went belly up, and none of his friends knew his number anymore.
Etymology:
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
Patcashic
Created by: pandafever
Pronunciation: pu-kaz-ick
Sentence: I gave it all up, only to discover that patcashic doesn't pay!
Etymology:
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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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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Cashflicted
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: cash flick ted
Sentence: Cashflicted Chad drifted off to the dark edges of the reunion hall when his material emblems of success were ignored by classmates who viewed him as the same loathesome character they had belittled fifteen years earlier.
Etymology: cash + conflicted
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
Jackjilted
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: jac/jil/ted
Sentence: He was totally jackjilted by the only thing he really ever cared for in his life.
Etymology: jack (slang for money) + jilted
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COMMENTS:
Poor Jack! Poor Jill... Things must of been tough for the whole family. - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 11:11:00
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Econwhore
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation:
Sentence: That econwhore won't stop hitting on my money... I mean me.
Etymology: Enon: economy, whore: do I really need to explain that?
