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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.

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Profittear

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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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Patcashic

Created by: pandafever

Pronunciation: pu-kaz-ick

Sentence: I gave it all up, only to discover that patcashic doesn't pay!

Etymology:

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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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Souldout

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: sold-out

Sentence: no-one was returning his calls, he had nowhere to sleep and his liver was beyond repair...if only he hadn't completely souldout

Etymology: soul, sold out

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Sacrimoney

Created by: jbricandy

Pronunciation: Sa-cri-money

Sentence: He made sacrimoney. He deceived his friends and still failed to find the money.

Etymology:

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Mephistophelose

Created by: kyotonils

Pronunciation: meh•fuh•staw'•fuh•lews'

Sentence: All he can think about is making money, but a mephistopheloser like him is bound to end up chasing his tail.

Etymology: From Faust's devil, Mephistopheles

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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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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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Masolover

Created by: josje

Pronunciation: maso lover

Sentence: please reject me i´m a masolover

Etymology: mosochist and lover

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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

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