Verboticism: Murphancholy

'The toast fell butter-side down.'

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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Murphancholy

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈmɚfənˌkɑli/

Sentence: Murphancholy is as likely to be triggered by the Peter Principle, Hofstadter's Law, Godwin's Law, or other force of irony than by Murphy's Law itself.

Etymology: From Murphy (as in Murphy's Law) + melancholy

Points: 509

Comments: Murphancholy

wordmeister - 2007-03-08: 01:06:00
Nice.

purpleartichokes - 2007-03-08: 04:49:00
A very good combo!

Osomatic - 2007-03-08: 05:40:00
Gotta give you credit (and a vote) for the fancypants linguistic markings in the pronunciation.

ErWenn - 2007-03-08: 17:35:00
Woo! I knew all that time fiddling with the IPA charts would pay off.