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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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Lucketydootbarbatrick
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: lukety/doot/barba/trik
Sentence: Lucketydootbarbatrick - life's got me by the ..... again
Etymology: lickety-split barbatrick + luck + doot
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COMMENTS:
Long live the Barbapapas - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-08: 12:20:00
Congratualations on the birth of their new born son Karmababa. - Stevenson0, 2007-03-08: 12:53:00
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Suckatude
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After I dropped my toast I was over come with a feeling of suckatude
Etymology: Suck+aditude
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)
Karmargarine
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kar mar jar een
Sentence: Destiny just knew when her perfect new husband's ex showed up at their wedding reception, it was not only as a guest, but as a date for him. Once again, Destiny's karmargarine was at work. Buttered toast side down on a dirty carpet...the fuzzy end of the lollipop...what's a four letter word starting with an "F"...oh yeah, FATE!
Etymology: Karma (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation)& Margarine (a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter)
Merphdesten
Created by: tonya87
Pronunciation: Mer-F-Dest-en
Sentence: Damn Merphdesten, you strike again!
Etymology:
Deusexmockina
Created by: FreakyDeak
Pronunciation: Dayoos-ex-mock-ee-na
Sentence:
Etymology: Deus Ex Machina + mock
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
Dismet
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dis-met
Sentence: Janene got a bonus of $100 for her hard work on one of her accounts. Her car broke down on the way home and it cost her $300 to get it fixed. She made some extra money at a part-time job and spent all of it on the speeding ticket she got hurrying to get there on time. It's just another of life's cruel jokes. It's dismet!
Etymology: dis (rap slang, short for disrespect) + kismet (fate; destiny)
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:
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.
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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