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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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Disstiny
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: diss-ten-ny
Sentence: The dissteney sank into her stomach as she managed to stub her toe while reaching for the china, which now lay on the tile floor in a thousands bitter sharp shards.
Etymology: from diss + destiny
Spoofate
Created by: catgrin
Pronunciation: spoo-feyt
Sentence: A sense of spoofate overcame Angela as the toothpaste plopped onto her new silk shirt. She had to laugh - bitterly.
Etymology: combination of root words spoof +fate
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)
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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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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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
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
Metagogy
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: MEH-tuh-goh-jee
Sentence:
Etymology: meta- ("beyond") + [peda]gogy ("the study of teaching")
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.
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
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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