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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.
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Karmad
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kar mad
Sentence: Yes Wendy Murphy was upset. It happened again. It was another example of the karmad she had felt lately. Whatever could go wrong, did go wrong...Murphy's Law indeed. And now again her breakfast was ruined. The bread had fallen and landed butter-side down...on her not so clean floor. It probably was because she never learned. Don't butter the bread before you put it in the toaster. It never just pops up, it always goes flying when it is done!
Etymology: Karma (the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny;fate;kismet) & Mad (very foolish;affected with madness or insanity)
Karmadyoferrors
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kar ma dee ov er rors
Sentence: Georgina's day just went from bad to worse. It was a karmadyoferrors. She didn't make it to the toaster before it flung her bread on the sweep-needed floor. Her heel broke while racing for the bus. Everyone on the public transit stared aghast at her, as she had only applied eye make-up to one eye, not the other and had forgotten her make-up case at home. When she got to her office, her computer had crashed and the milk she put in her coffee curdled. She went to the ladies' room to sort out herself and freshen up. Of course, Fate has a way of telling you who your real friends are at work. She walked into the meeting with the new Japanese gentlemen clients and was not advised that her second and third buttons on her shirt had popped open or that the back of her skirt had been inadvertantly caught in the top of her pantyhose. She smiled apologetically, but that spinach salad she had at lunch had lodged itself between each of her front teeth and blacked out two of them. Yup, she looked real purty...
Etymology: Karma (the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation) & Comedy of Errors (A humorous occurrence).
Dangst
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Dang-sst
Sentence: "Dang it!" said Helen, after she opened her umbrella indoors while tripping over a black cat and falling under a ladder. It was hours before her feeling of dangst began to lighten.
Etymology: Dang + angst. Angst is technically the philosophical dread and anxiety about the world because of the future being unknowable.
Schleprocked
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: shlep-rokd
Sentence: After waking up late, tripping over the dog, burning her toast, getting a flat tire, spilling hot coffee in her lap, and being fired for being late to work, Amy was feeling quite schleprocked and decided to go back to bed. At noon.
Etymology: Schleprock - if you know who Schleprock is, you'll get it.
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COMMENTS:
I'm a big Flintstone fan. Good one! - toadstool57, 2007-03-08: 07:42:00
YABBA-DABBA-...(you know) - Alchemist, 2007-03-08: 14:42:00
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Serendipiteous
Created by: swallowedbyafish
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: serendipity + piteous
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COMMENTS:
I really like this word, but it would be much better with a sentence... - petaj, 2007-03-09: 02:18:00
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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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Stinkendipitous
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: stink-uhn-dip-i-tuhs
Sentence: The toast incident was just another in a never ending chain of stinkendipitous occurences.
Etymology: stink + serendipitous
Murphydent
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: mør-fy-dent
Sentence: And just as he raced in to the finish-line ahead of the other's, he had a horrible murphydent; a flock of seagulls attacked his car and made him spin.
Etymology: Murphy's Law - everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Accident - unintended error.
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COMMENTS:
Isee now that I read the definition a little wrong... Oh well, a slight murphydent. - allwise, 2007-03-08: 02:05:00
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Karmagettin
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kärməgetin
Sentence: Harry seems to be surprised every time fate slaps him in the face. He refuses to change his behaviors so he keeps karmagettin the same results. Somehow this only makes him more determined to continue on the same course. Such is the life of a bulldog.
Etymology: karma (destiny or fate, following as effect from cause) + gettin (come to have or hold something; receive) a plat on Armageddon - the last battle between good and evil before the Day of Judgment
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COMMENTS:
Karmandgettit! - Nosila, 2009-09-25: 17:32:00
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Kickmet
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kikmet
Sentence: Harry believes in kismet. Unfortunately he often ends up with kickmet instead.
Etymology: kismet (fate) + kick (strike or propel forcibly with the foot)
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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