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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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Billbusting
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: bill/bus/ting
Sentence: All decades of billbusting got him was a solitary life and an empty sac (oops sack)
Etymology: ball busting + bill (as in dollar bill)
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COMMENTS:
Well, at least he emptied his sac... - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 11:36:00
ha ha - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-02: 12:41:00
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Pennilynch
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: pen/nE/linch
Sentence: Michael said that he wanted to be the next Donald Trump. His friends said "Why? That sounds stupid...", so he fired them. And he never gave up on his dream. Unfortunately, he never made it either... He just pennilynched himself.
Etymology: penny+ lynch/pinch
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COMMENTS:
Nice one! - BMott, 2007-02-02: 11:37:00
great word - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-02: 12:33:00
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Bucksflat
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: buks-flat
Sentence: The enjoyment he derived from each successful investment appeared to be negatively correlated with his increasing wealth. By the time he realised this, his wife had already left, unable to compete with the FTSE 100 for his affections. The vastest magnum of champagne could not disguise the fact he had a serious case of bucksflat.
Etymology: bucks fizz + flat
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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Sacrifiscal
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: sak - re - fisk - cal
Sentence: Judd felt like the sacrifiscal lamb being led to slaughter. He had put all of his time and resources into accumulating enough money to keeping up with the Joneses and then the Joneses moved away.
Etymology: sacrificial, fiscal
Patcashic
Created by: pandafever
Pronunciation: pu-kaz-ick
Sentence: I gave it all up, only to discover that patcashic doesn't pay!
Etymology:
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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Pennyfool
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: PEH-knee-fool
Sentence: Lance is such a pennyfool! He drove halfway across the state to save 2 cents a gallon on gas...
Etymology: penny + fool
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COMMENTS:
Hey Alchemist, sounds like my word, only it's nicer... - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 11:09:00
such plentiful pennypinching... - Alchemist, 2007-02-02: 13:01:00
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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
Cashtrate
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: kash-strait
Sentence: Wallace cashtrated himself when he started working 80 hours a week -- he found that money was no good without someone to spend it with.
Etymology: Cash + castrate
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COMMENTS:
Good stuff, sounds fitting painful. - Bulletchewer, 2007-02-02: 10:30:00
*fittingly Sorry, 'tis Friday. - Bulletchewer, 2007-02-02: 10:31:00
Viciously excellent - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 10:33:00
made for a man - but I like it too (Irish accent optional) - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-02: 11:27:00
Nice one! - BMott, 2007-02-02: 13:28:00
Best word of the day! Says it all in a quick slicing manner!! Rich and a high voice to join the choir!!! - Stevenson0, 2007-02-02: 15:54:00
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