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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.
Verboticisms
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Schuldeschadenfreude
Created by: catgrin
Pronunciation: shool-de-shahd-n-froi-duh
Sentence: Kathy'd thought of herself as a "mean girl" so her schuldeschadenfreude at Betty's car accident (Betty'd always flaunted that Mercedes!) was something of a shock.
Etymology: Basically a compound German word, this is based on a combination of "Schuld" (guilt) and "Schadenfreude" (pleasure at the misfortune of others) which is an already accepted, and surprisingly rarely used word in the English language.
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COMMENTS:
I schuld've known! - Alchemist, 2007-03-23: 07:40:00
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Yokker
Created by: AngelicHannah
Pronunciation: Yokk-er
Sentence: Ted: Yay! Sally's been fired finally!!! Bill: Ted that's a bit harsh stop being a yokker!
Etymology: Ya wha?
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COMMENTS:
Original and creative. Gelbert Burgess would be proud of you. Terrific word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-17: 02:54:00
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Sadenfreude
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sadd enn froy deh
Sentence: Her sadenfreude was obvious as she passed round the sacrificed chicken sandwiches at his leaving party
Etymology: sad schadenfreude
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COMMENTS:
Das ist schade! - Nosila, 2009-10-09: 17:25:00
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Purplevoodoo
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: per-pull-voo-doo
Sentence: His lust rival's key not unlocking the door brought a sense of purplevoodoo to the guy who, for purely business purposes, had convinced his foxy boss to change the locks on the executive bathrooms.
Etymology: Thought I'd pile in the Hendrix references. Purple is the colour of success/pleasure (a purple patch) but also a bruise. Voodoo is the type of doll people use to alter others' fortunes. Both words appear in famous Jimi songs!
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COMMENTS:
Hmmmm... double entendre? What was that sharp pain I just felt in the corner of my mouth? - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-23: 08:08:00
Is that a purple haze, or purple rain on the horizon? - Stevenson0, 2007-03-23: 10:26:00
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky! - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-23: 10:29:00
'Scuse me while I change my name to AzureArtichokes; this navel piercing is killing me. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-23: 12:25:00
How's the knee? - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-23: 12:56:00
AAAAARRRRGH! Agonkneeee! - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-23: 14:18:00
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Rueglee
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ROO-glee
Sentence: Miranda was struck with rueglee over the sudden misfortune that came to her friend Louise, the woman she loves to hate.
Etymology: Blend of 'Rue' (v. to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterl and 'Glee' (n. open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation)
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COMMENTS:
wow. much better than my own. - chaok, 2012-07-19: 19:16:00
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Sympathighfive
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: simp/ah/thy/five
Sentence: It was difficult to sympathighfive with her colleague as she was escorted to the door by security guards.
Etymology: sympathize + high five
Guiltenfreude
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: GILT-ehn-froyd
Sentence: When Larry the office woethario fell down the steps, Susan was stricken with guiltenfreude. She wanted to cheer, and knew she would have to go to confession for feeling that way...
Etymology: schadenfreude (pleasure at the misfortune of others) with guilt.
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COMMENTS:
Susan probably Jung her head in shame, and ate her favourite comfort food Pavlova to get over it. - petaj, 2007-03-23: 03:11:00
After she had her nosh, she Alder Goethe church, but she Kant, having recently come to doubt the whole issue of transnubstantiation. Poor Susan, she just needs a little zensistence. - Alchemist, 2007-03-23: 07:39:00
The gold maker has completely lost me. How many more unoriginals will go down the whole Schadenfreude or sad- route? Sorry, my subconscious says I'm craving sexual attention... - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-23: 10:54:00
Jung, Pavlov, Freud, Alder, Kant, and Goethe all major contributers to psychology/psychiatry. and actually it is tough to improve on schadenfreude, it is such a great word already... - Alchemist, 2007-03-23: 15:16:00
I do wonder if your Guiltenfreunde is that married chick you're seeing on the side... - catgrin, 2007-03-23: 19:21:00
And there was deluded old me thinking Goethe was the German Shakespeare and Kant a philospher. I always had "Schade" as meaning "shame", so your word is pretty much the same as Schadenfreude. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-23: 20:24:00
From wikipedia for "Gestalt" - The idea of Gestalt has its roots in theories by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Immanuel Kant, and Ernst Mach. Also, the roots of of schadenfreude are as follows: Schaden means "harm" and freude means "joy"...perhaps you have heard of "the google"... - Alchemist, 2007-03-23: 21:37:00
So Kant and Goethe as "major contributors" to psychology is misleading. Jung and Freud, they are "major"; but Goethe and Kant are primarily writers/philosophers with much broader interests. And "Schade" (n denotes plural) has connotations of pity/shame and does not merely mean "harm". - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-24: 06:57:00
sorry you don't agree that gestalt psychology was a major development. connotations of pity/shame (not guilt) are not supported by linguistic origins...I think you are guiltenfreude of purple voodoo on this... - Alchemist, 2007-03-24: 14:48:00
Hull! who'd have thought a little jest would get Bulletchewer ready for a Rogers. Maybe a little Gardnering might relieve the Strauss ;-) - petaj, 2007-03-25: 04:31:00
Oh and that's Anselm not Johann or Richard. - petaj, 2007-03-25: 04:35:00
Schade dass du kein Deutsch versteht! Being minor contribitors to a theory which is so important most people have never heard of it hardly makes you a major piece on the chessboard of psychology. Hell it barely makes you a pawn. Seriously, check the German again. Why do they say "Schade" to mean "what a pity"? Oh sorry, you're the expert on all things Deutsch, so I must be wrong. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-25: 06:37:00
And *I* say that forty-TWO angels can dance on the head of a pin!!! So there! - Alchemist, 2007-03-25: 09:22:00
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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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Yippeevil
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: yip-ee-vul
Sentence: after he finished his happy dance he couldn't help but feel a little yippeevil
Etymology: yippee, evil
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COMMENTS:
sounds a bit like Hoorateful - petaj, 2007-03-23: 03:12:00
I think his dance was the pox trot. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-23: 05:49:00
followed by the tangotohell.. - rikboyee, 2007-03-24: 01:41:00
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Comradenfreude
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kom rad enn froy deh
Sentence: She wouldn't admit to comradenfreude, but found herself humming "another on bites the dust" as her ex colleague made her tearful farewells
Etymology: comrade, schadenfreude
Comments:
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.
Hey mplsbohemian, Alchemist summed it up nicely with etymology for Guiltenfreude: "schadenfreude (pleasure at the misfortune of others) with guilt."
Today's definition was suggested by Discoveria. Thank you Discoveria. ~ James