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DEFINITION: The feeling you get when fate plays a stupid little trick on you, just to remind you that life isn't fair.
Verboticisms
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Moironic
Created by: jesster
Pronunciation: Moi -ron - ic
Sentence: Jody was thrilled when she discovered the beautiful antique cabinet at a yard sale for only $2. She spent the entire drive home planning how she would arrange her Hummel figurines in it. It was overwhelmingly moironic that when she arrived home, she found that her house had burned to the ground. All that was left of her extensive collection was a melted puddle of kitch.
Etymology: Moira ( Fate in Greek and Roman mythology, any of three goddesses who determined human destinies, and in particular the span of a person's life and his allotment of misery and suffering) + ironic
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COMMENTS:
great story - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-07: 12:33:00
That is a brilliant story, but I'm afraid I can't vote for this, because you used the word "ironic" incorrectly (thank you Alanis Morisette). - Pseudonym, 2007-09-08: 05:08:00
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Latamahimo
Created by: leomar
Pronunciation: la-ta-ma-hi-mo
Sentence: a word that describes "we can do nothing" la-ta-ma-hi-mo
Etymology: la, ta, mahimo
Murphsmack
Created by: FreeToys
Pronunciation: murf' - smak
Sentence: Those contributors expecting obedience from the usual candidates are about to get a Murphsmack from Ron Paul
Etymology: Murphy's Law / Smackdown
Murpholated
Created by: Jeaneai
Pronunciation: Mirf-oh-late-id
Sentence: Janine felt so murpholated when her shatterproof vase fell right on the linoleum floor and, you guessed it, shattered completely.
Etymology: From Murphy's Law, which is basically that everything that can go wrong will.
Murphish
Created by: ConnyWesth
Pronunciation: Murfish
Sentence: Murphys law (everything that can be screwed up, really does) + ish (feeling)
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Murphious could also be a good word for this. - ConnyWesth, 2007-09-09: 10:12:00
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Deitrick
Created by: earljw
Pronunciation: DAY-e-trik
Sentence: I had an overwhelming sense of deitrick when I realized I was late for an interview and my car wouldn't start.
Etymology: deity + trick
Karmatoast
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: karma/toe/st
Sentence: It was all over - she looked at the butter melting onto the floor and realized she was karmatoast
Etymology: karma (fate) + comatose (stupefied) + toast (done)
Murphimized
Created by: brankoz
Pronunciation: MURF-imm-eyezd
Sentence: Ed McMahon just knocked on my door ... to ask when my neighbor would be home. It made me feel quite murphimized
Etymology: adjective, from the murphy guy that wrote all those "life sucks" laws
Resistentialism
Created by: Syzygy
Pronunciation: Resi-stent-ialism
Sentence: Resistentialism is a theory in which inanimate objects display hostile desires towards human beings
Etymology: Resist and Existentialism
Draggravation
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: drag + rav + ay + shun
Sentence: I missed every dang traffic light on the way to work today - it was such a draggravation.
Etymology: drag + aggravation
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COMMENTS:
very good, my favorite, even better than mine! - brankoz, 2007-09-07: 16:41:00
Nice! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-07: 18:24:00
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Comments:
FreeToys - 2007-09-07: 06:59:00
Murphsmack
FreeToys - 2007-09-07: 06:59:00
dang, asleep again
RachelPhillipson2007 - 2007-09-08: 08:00:00
aw im last
Delilah - 2007-09-09: 16:24:00
The only way to truly beat this thing is to switch to cereal for breakfast. lol!