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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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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?
Disclamisfaction
Created by: paperhoard
Pronunciation: dis-clamis-faction
Sentence: Even though Jim won the lottery he still suffered from disclamisfaction because money couldn't buy him cleavage. Can also be found in the famous song "I Can't Get No Disclamisfaction" by the Appalachian Mountain Boys.
Etymology: Clams - Slang A dollar: set me back 75 clams PLUS Dissatisfaction - The condition or feeling of being displeased or unsatisfied; discontent.
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COMMENTS:
Poor Jim. He's always so discomboobulated. - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-02: 07:20:00
Jim can't get no! - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 10:35:00
Poor Jim.... - paperhoard, 2007-02-02: 11:11:00
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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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Jinglejanglejilted
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: jin-gle-jan-gle-jil-ted
Sentence: The silvery tinkle of coinage in his pocket reminded Jim of his unrequited attraction to Lady Luck. He knew he was always destined to be jinglejanglejilted.
Etymology: Jingle-jangle: thin, tinkling metallic sound such as coinage, tambourines, ("In the jingle-jangle morning I'll come following you"-Bob Dylan) or spurs ("I got spurs that jingle-jangle-jingle as I go riding merrily along" -Gene Autry) + jilted: rejected, spurned
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COMMENTS:
Great, now you've stuck 2 songs in my head! - Nosila, 2009-09-03: 01:34:00
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Overtwotimer
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ōvərtutaɪmər
Sentence: Every time Tim tried works extra hours to get ahead, life becomes an overtwotimer. Some kind of monetary crisis will jump up to put him further behind.
Etymology: overtime (time worked beyond one’s scheduled working hours) + two-timer (deceive or be unfaithful to a lover or spouse)
Mutualfundimentia
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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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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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)
Lootboot
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: loot-boot
Sentence: That high class snoot gave me the lootboot.
Etymology: loot (money) + boot (kicked out)
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:
