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'That idiot has finally been fired?'

DEFINITION: n. A mixture of delight and guilt felt when a colleague, whom you despise, suffers a misfortune. v. To feel bad about feeling good when something bad happens to someone who is definitely not good.

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Bummerific

Created by: jtm2300

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Amorphish

Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: (ah-more-fish)

Sentence: The amorhpish waiter threw down her tray with pleasure as she saw her boss writhe with pain.

Etymology: From the Latin "amor" (to love) and the early Greek "phish" (phony).

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Regretaspitlicious

Created by: mana1066

Pronunciation: re-gret-a-spit-lish-us

Sentence: Trying to hide my regretaspitlicious smile, i shook his hand as he left the office.

Etymology: regretfully + spite +delicious

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COMMENTS:

dunno why i wanted to add delicious in there. - mana1066, 2007-03-27: 00:20:00

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Guilappy

BlossomFlower

Created by: BlossomFlower

Pronunciation: Gill-appy

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Tribyelation

TimTheEnchanter

Created by: TimTheEnchanter

Pronunciation: trib-yee-LAY-shun

Sentence: Sandra hated the way her neighbor Kelly reminded everyone of how the only things more perfect than her life were her perfect little children. Thus, Sandra was overcome by a profound sense of tribyelation when she heard Kelly's youngest child was caught selling drugs at school and the oldest was pregnant.

Etymology: Tribulation - (misfortune, a trying experience) + Elation (the state of being filled with joy)

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great combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-16: 12:28:00

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Gladversity

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: glad vers it tee

Sentence: Ruth was excited when the Feds came and picked up her partner, Les, for fraud. She thrived in gladversity over his finally being caught, especially since she was the anonymous source who tipped them off. Sure with him out of the partnership, she would be free to rename their business and start afresh. I mean, who wanted to work somewhere called Ruth Les Collections Agency???

Etymology: Glad (showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy;feeling happy appreciation) & Adversity (a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event; a state of misfortune or affliction)

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Well done! "Ruth Les Collections" - hilarious! - splendiction, 2009-10-09: 21:55:00

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Fulu

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: foo/loo

Sentence: There's George that no good rotten pig. I wish he would die!!! (At that moment, George trips, falls and hits his head.) "Oh George! George dear!! Are you all right. Oh dear" A perfect example of a fulu.

Etymology: voodoo + f*** you + love you

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A fululicious word! - wordmeister, 2007-03-23: 10:18:00

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Colleagasm

coachnomad23

Created by: coachnomad23

Pronunciation: colleague-asm

Sentence: Seeing my partners on the project get fired for messing up the presentation, gave me a colleagasm.

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Colleagasm sounds like a very positive thing to me!! Love the word!!! - Stevenson0, 2007-03-23: 10:30:00

So many good words can be contrived from the "O". I keep waiting for the definition for "The point at which you become assimilated with the borg" (borgasm). - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-23: 12:18:00

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Jollymixture

Created by: suzanne

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Remirth

Created by: mcpuffersons

Pronunciation: re-murth

Sentence: Jane was filled with remirth when she found that John hadn't gotten the promotion he had wanted.

Etymology: remorse + mirth.

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COMMENTS:

petaj Maybe all that emotion was brought on by her terrible lisp. - petaj, 2007-03-25: 04:15:00

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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-03-23: 00:57:00
Today's definition was suggested by Discoveria.
Thank you Discoveria! ~ James

Discoveria - 2007-03-23: 10:56:00
That was quick...

ErWenn - 2007-03-23: 10:56:00
Don't really know how to top schuldeshadenfreude here.

mplsbohemian - 2007-03-24: 22:20:00
The trouble is that there is a word for this in English: schadenfreude.

Discoveria - 2007-03-26: 12:07:00
I've been told already. catgrin and James decided that schadenfreude refers to the satisfaction, and this verboticism refers to feeling guilt over having that satisfaction.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-03-26: 23:54:00
Hey mplsbohemian, Alchemist summed it up nicely with etymology for Guiltenfreude: "schadenfreude (pleasure at the misfortune of others) with guilt."

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-10-09: 00:12:00
Today's definition was suggested by Discoveria. Thank you Discoveria. ~ James