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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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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:
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
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:
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
Suckatude
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After I dropped my toast I was over come with a feeling of suckatude
Etymology: Suck+aditude
Metagogy
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: MEH-tuh-goh-jee
Sentence:
Etymology: meta- ("beyond") + [peda]gogy ("the study of teaching")
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)
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)
Deusexmockina
Created by: FreakyDeak
Pronunciation: Dayoos-ex-mock-ee-na
Sentence:
Etymology: Deus Ex Machina + mock
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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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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