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DEFINITION: To sacrifice your health, your family, and even a few friends to money, only to discover that money doesn't like you.
Verboticisms
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Billaria
Created by: Paradox
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "Well, I liked him until he started suffering from extreme billaria."
Etymology:
Cashstration
Created by: elron
Pronunciation: cash-stra-shun
Sentence: Lew had given up everything to win the lottery, but cashstration set in and he ended up homeless.
Etymology: cash + castration
Parishiltality
Created by: mythman
Pronunciation: pair-iss-hil-TAHL-ih-tee
Sentence: The gossip-mags are searching for the next celeb to commit a ParisHiltalty.
Etymology: "Paris Hilton" (who's cut herself and her siblings from the family fortune), and "fatality"
Nooomamoteseyorheafamlthily
Created by: pwincess9430
Pronunciation: dunno how it sounds?!?
Sentence: people with nothing
Etymology:
Contemptation
Created by: jesster
Pronunciation: con - tem - tation
Sentence: Arnold decided to leave the monastery to pursue a life of contemptation.
Etymology: Contempt + temptation
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COMMENTS:
Great word, I've thought of it, too, a few months ago and as Erin McKean told me in her TechTalk video, that I ought to tell the other inventors about this mysterious mental connection, I googled this page, so greetings from Germany. (I think we also feel contemptation then drinking contemptatious alcoholic stuff, or when smoking, though I don't.) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7548057564471419291 - entryfee, 2007-11-03: 19:35:00
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Avaricersion
Created by: marnee4nothin
Pronunciation: a-vaer-ies-er-shon
Sentence: though Penny attended the debs ball she found that her new wealth didn't protect her from the avaricersion of the other debs.
Etymology: avarice + aversion
Buckwit
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: buk-wit
Sentence: it had suddenly become obvious to everyone that Travis was a total buckwit
Etymology: buck[as in cash], f*ckwit
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COMMENTS:
snigger! - galwaywegian, 2007-08-09: 04:14:00
ha, wish I'd thought of it! got my vote! - remistram, 2007-08-09: 09:08:00
i think i'll be using this one in conversation! Nice one...though i may have to reserve my voting if you keep going so well! xo - marnee4nothin, 2007-08-09: 23:39:00
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Debtmagnet
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: debt-mag-net
Sentence: Friendless Fred was a debtmagnet despite (or because of) his unwavering quest for riches.
Etymology: chickmagnet + debt
Capitunalishment
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: cap-eh-ton-ul-ish-ment
Sentence: After years of gambling, Larry finally hit the jackpot. Unfortunately for him, the winnings came just one week before his divorce was to be finalized. The next day, he recieved a call from his attorney saying his wife had read about Larry's good fortune in the newspaper, and seeing that they were still techniacally husband and wife (and according to section EE5432A: Capitunalishment), half of the money would be hers.
Etymology: A merge of "capital punishment." Capital for money. Punishment for the distreatment of others and money's distreatment of you.
Comments:
OZZIEBOB - 2007-08-09: 18:13:00
Have a friend who turns his "f" sounds into "b"s. So you've got my vote. Good word.
OZZIEBOB - 2007-08-09: 18:14:00
Have a friend who turns his "f" sounds into "b"s. So you've got my vote. Good word.