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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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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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Bucked
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: buhkt
Sentence: Alan wanted so much to get ahead on his bills. He just wanted to be able to take his girlfriend out to a nice dinner without having to skip meals for the rest of the week so he jumped at the chance to work overtime. He upset his mother by cancelling their weekly get together and majorly annoyed his roommate who was non-too-happy about walking his dog to pull an over-nighter. When he went to his car in the morning to retrieve a change of clothes, he found a ticket, whose fine exceeded all the extra cash he had just earned. BUCKED AGAIN!
Etymology: buck (money) + "another word that rhymes with buck" (screwed)
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
Sacrimoney
Created by: jbricandy
Pronunciation: Sa-cri-money
Sentence: He made sacrimoney. He deceived his friends and still failed to find the money.
Etymology:
Kennethlaid
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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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:
Lootboot
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: loot-boot
Sentence: That high class snoot gave me the lootboot.
Etymology: loot (money) + boot (kicked out)
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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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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