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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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Nooomamoteseyorheafamlthily
Created by: pwincess9430
Pronunciation: dunno how it sounds?!?
Sentence: people with nothing
Etymology:
Sponfoolie
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: spon-FOO-lee
Sentence: Bob could think of, and talk about, nothing other than money. He kneaded the "dough", chased the "buck" and laundered the filthy lucre. But by-and-by this singleminded sponfoolie finished up a kinless and kithless crock, without enough "moolah" to buy a muesli bar.
Etymology: Blending based on "spondulie" and "spondulicks". A slang term(s)possibly from Gk "spondulicks", the adjectival form of "spondulox", a type of shell used as early "money" and fool.
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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Monstruate
Created by: tubeyes
Pronunciation: maw-en-est-ray-teh
Sentence: If Jim spends a few more years in the rat race of corporate America, he'll monstruate his life away!
Etymology: Money, Menstruate
Suckaflirt
Created by: niko23
Pronunciation: suckah-flirt
Sentence: A dud trying to get the girl hes been waiting to mary in his little fantasy world, sucks at love & dating.
Etymology:
Monsacdis
Created by: kellii3
Pronunciation: mon sac dis
Sentence: he gave up every thing only to discover that monsacdis was goin to happen and there was no way out of it .
Etymology: mon - money sac - sacrifice dis - discovery
Benjamistaken
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: BEN-juh-miss-take-en
Sentence: Eric spent his whole life in pursuit of the almighty buck, thinking it would make him popular with the ladies and respected among his peers, but in the end he was simply benjamistaken and died alone, even though he was buried in the finest casket money could buy.
Etymology: Benjamins ($100 bills) + mistaken
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.
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
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.