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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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Karmosity
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: karm/os/ity
Sentence: I'm filled with karmosity when I drop a coin and it rolls into the sewer, the bread lands peanut butter side down, or the milk I just bought is sour.
Etymology: karma + animosity
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COMMENTS:
try to keep karm. - galwaywegian, 2007-03-08: 04:46:00
Be careful not to slip on the peanut butter bread and end up karmatose - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-08: 13:32:00
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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.
Metagogy
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: MEH-tuh-goh-jee
Sentence:
Etymology: meta- ("beyond") + [peda]gogy ("the study of teaching")
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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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
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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Fatestration
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: fae stray tion
Sentence: There was an overall sense of fatestration at the annual singles Valentine's Day dance when no women showed.
Etymology: fate frustration
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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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:
Suckality
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: Suk-al-ity
Sentence: Her last piece of toast hit the floor face down, the suckality of it caused her to shed a tear.
Etymology: Suck: Doh, life sucks sometimes. -- ality: from reALITY, which sucks sometimes.
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COMMENTS:
Still it's better than a fate-ality - petaj, 2007-03-09: 02:03:00
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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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