Verboticisms

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\"

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: mU-tual-fun-dE-men-sha

Sentence: Jill suffers from mutualfundimentia after she to sacraficed her all to get David's affection, only to be snubbed.

Etymology: mutual fund/ dementia

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COMMENTS:

plus *fundamental* - nice word! - Alchemist, 2007-02-02: 09:17:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: pro fay tchur

Sentence: Buck Chaser had always gone after Dame Fortune and sacrificed everything to be her Real love. He risked profeiture to spend the rest of his days with the lovely Ms. Money. He always had a Yen to have her and he was so Rand-y,he would Lira after her. Finally she had to confront him: "Buck, Let me be Franc with you...Euro becoming a Zloty and a Drachma and I want to Krone you with so many Pounds they will leave a Mark on you. Can't you see Cents? In my opinion, we have a Peso-mistic future together. If you don't Peseta off soon, I will have Robert Dinero take your neck and Ringgit and have you Guildered, before he throws you on the Ruble heap! Yuan to know the Buck stops here!"

Etymology: Profit (the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) & Forfeiture (the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.)

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Created by: w5lf9s

Pronunciation: ma.men.urd

Sentence: It was when everyone had turned away and noone returned his calls that he finally realized that he had become a mammonerd

Etymology: from "mammon"- wealth regarded as an evil influence and "nerd" - a pejorative applied to people with an above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and common social rituals

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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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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)

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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

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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.

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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?

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Created by: nicora

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