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DEFINITION: n. The feeling you get when fate plays a stupid little trick on you, just to remind you that life isn't fair. v. To suddenly remember that you've been screwed by the powers that be.
Verboticisms
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Randumb
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ran dum
Sentence: these randumb events were beginning to sow seeds of doubt about her ever having her own broadcasting corporation by the age of thirty
Etymology: random, dumb
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COMMENTS:
clever! - wordmeister, 2007-03-08: 08:23:00
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Karmatic
Created by: thoughtnomad
Pronunciation: car ma tic
Sentence: It was karmatic for John, a man who disdained the poor, when he lost his inheritance.
Etymology:
Scrowned
Created by: superbananaman
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I just got scrowned when my milk flew into the air and poured all over my phone and landed in my fish tank.
Etymology:
Schlumpchumped
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: SHLUMP-chump'd
Sentence: Just my luck, thought Irving, as his car key broke off in the door lock. Schlumpchumped again! Thanks God!
Etymology: schlump + chump
Murphancholy
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈmɚfənˌkɑli/
Sentence: Murphancholy is as likely to be triggered by the Peter Principle, Hofstadter's Law, Godwin's Law, or other force of irony than by Murphy's Law itself.
Etymology: From Murphy (as in Murphy's Law) + melancholy
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COMMENTS:
Nice. - wordmeister, 2007-03-08: 01:06:00
A very good combo! - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-08: 04:49:00
Gotta give you credit (and a vote) for the fancypants linguistic markings in the pronunciation. - Osomatic, 2007-03-08: 05:40:00
Woo! I knew all that time fiddling with the IPA charts would pay off. - ErWenn, 2007-03-08: 17:35:00
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Fateism
Created by: bobditty
Pronunciation: fate ism
Sentence: Due to fateism, bob had seven years of bad luck because he broke a mirror
Etymology: fate- destiny ism- randomness
Butterlife
Created by: beatriz
Pronunciation: but-er-li-fe
Sentence: after eating the bread of anxiety you can feel the butterlife in your stomach
Etymology: butter like up side down life like ruins everything, classified in the family of point of view.
Suckatude
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After I dropped my toast I was over come with a feeling of suckatude
Etymology: Suck+aditude
Karmaslapped
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: car-mah-slapt
Sentence: Jill was having one of those days when nothing was going right and she felt completely karmaslapped.
Etymology: karma (fate) + slapped (i.e. bitchslapped)
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COMMENTS:
Been there...got the haircut. - urbanwookie, 2007-04-01: 19:50:00
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Calamiflucked
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: ka-lam-i-fluck-t
Sentence: Everytime she turned around fate threw litte problems in her path to remind her she was calamiflucked
Etymology: calami from calamity + f from "ifuseek" + lucked from luck = calamiflucked
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COMMENTS:
flucked = foul-lucked as well. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-08: 08:07:00
Right you are! - Sed8ed, 2007-03-09: 05:02:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by paintergrl1313.
Thank you paintergrl1313! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by paintergrl1313. Thank you paintergrl1313. ~ James
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