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'Sorry, but you're not my type'

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.

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Ebinezerscrewed

metrohumanx

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:

metrohumanx More fun and a cool game: http://sodaplay.com/creators/soda/items/constructor - metrohumanx, 2009-09-02: 00:33:00

artr 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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Lucrotomy

erasmus

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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Autocashtrate

Created by: dwingillinois

Pronunciation: ah' toh KASH trayt

Sentence: While $1,000,000 was a lot of money, I had to consider if it would be worth it to potentially autocashtrate myself.

Etymology: auto (self) + cash (money) + castrate (ouch!)

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Good one! - BMott, 2007-02-02: 11:38:00

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Fauxriche

petaj

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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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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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

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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)

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Paininthecash

artr

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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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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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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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:

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