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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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Moiraed
Created by: EonaFrae
Pronunciation: moy-raid
Sentence: Susan moiraed through the days events; life really did suck.
Etymology: Moirai [name of The Fates from Greek mythology] + ed [suffix]
Providented
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: prov-ee-dent-id
Sentence: After the sleepless night, the car alarm waking her at 4.30 and the heating failing to come on, the toast falling butter-side down was the final straw. Cheryl felt unfairly providented.
Etymology: providence (God's guidance over humans) + dented (to reduce or slightly injure)
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2011-02-08: 09:47:00
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Failtalism
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: fail tall ism
Sentence: Mary was hit by a feeling of failtalism when she realized that yet again she was not going to be Cinderella at the ball.
Etymology: from fail and faitalism
Deusexmockina
Created by: FreakyDeak
Pronunciation: Dayoos-ex-mock-ee-na
Sentence:
Etymology: Deus Ex Machina + mock
Irofate
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: ai-ro-faet
Sentence: He tried his best but fall a pray to irofate
Etymology: irony of fate ...
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
Fateality
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: fayt-al-i-ty
Sentence: Sitting at his desk, Joe contemplated his fateality when he realized that he wasn't still dreaming and he really didn't have his pants on.
Etymology: reality: quality and state of things being true + fate: supposed force or princible that predetermines events + fatality: a decree made by fate or the quality of being doomed by disaster
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COMMENTS:
There's sale down the street he should go to where pants are half off! - Nosila, 2009-09-25: 17:36:00
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Faytatricked
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Fay-ta-tricked
Sentence: Feleeny Meania was always finding herself faytatricked somehow. She begain to question herself. Had she been so mean to others that she was now being repaid by the tricks that fate was playing on her?
Etymology: Fayta: Taken in part of the word fate-Destiny, an inevitable course of events Tricked: A mischievous action; a prank
Sucktion
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: suk/shun
Sentence: Sucktion is the feeling I get when I log in and see so many clever words already submitted
Etymology: suck + suction
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COMMENTS:
hear ya - porsche, 2007-03-08: 12:04:00
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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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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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