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DEFINITION: n. A mixture of delight and guilt felt when a colleague, whom you despise, suffers a misfortune. v. To feel bad about feeling good when something bad happens to someone who is definitely not good.
Happity
Top verboticism of the day created by mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: hap-pity
Sentence: Lucy was overcome with happityness when her nemesis, Brittany, fell face down on the 50 yard line in front of the whole school and broke her tiara. On one hand, it was terrible that someone sabotaged the float she was riding on. On the other hand, just because she was the homecoming queen, head cheerleader, class president, valedictorian, pretty, popular and dating Brad the quarterback -- who did she think she was, anyway?
Etymology: happy (happiness) + pity
Created by: mrskellyscl.
Comments:
Chuckle! - splendiction, 2009-10-09: 22:02:00
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(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Sympathighfive: /simp-ah-thy-five/ It was difficult to sympathighfive with her colleague as she was escorted to the door by security guards. Etymology: sympathize + high five Created by: Jabberwocky.
Trainwreckspotter: /TRAIN rek spot er/ Jordan's last ditch effort to please the clients would fail badly. They were not impressed with her cheap plastic advertising pens that glowed in the dark. In fact her ad plan turned out to be a complete disaster when the pens didn't glow but instead leaked. Normally Jordan teamed up with Sass and they would share their strengths. This time Jordan greedily went solo - searching glory - while Sass moped around waiting for another bid. She secretly knew Jordan couldn't go it alone successfully - Jordan lacked judgement! Jordan's clients began to lose interest and backed away from the big job (which could have brought in much needed big profits for the company). Instead of helping, her jealous colleague Sass trainwreckspotted Jordan get the boot. Etymology: From: trainspotter and trainwreck. Created by: splendiction.
Comments:
Talk about derailment...good word! - Nosila, 2009-10-09: 23:05:00
Sadpy: /sad-pee/ When Rachel heard that her office enemy had spilled her coffee all over her own laptop she became very sadpy. Etymology: contraction of "sad" and "happy" Created by: Koekbroer.
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Discoveria.
Thank you Discoveria! ~ James
Discoveria - 2007-03-23: 10:56:00
That was quick...
ErWenn - 2007-03-23: 10:56:00
Don't really know how to top schuldeshadenfreude here.
mplsbohemian - 2007-03-24: 22:20:00
The trouble is that there is a word for this in English: schadenfreude.
Discoveria - 2007-03-26: 12:07:00
I've been told already. catgrin and James decided that schadenfreude refers to the satisfaction, and this verboticism refers to feeling guilt over having that satisfaction.
Hey mplsbohemian, Alchemist summed it up nicely with etymology for Guiltenfreude: "schadenfreude (pleasure at the misfortune of others) with guilt."
Today's definition was suggested by Discoveria. Thank you Discoveria. ~ James