Verboticism: Dismise
DEFINITION: v. To sacrifice your health, your family, and even a few friends to money, only to discover that money doesn't like you. n. A sacrifice made for money that goes unrewarded.
Dismise
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: diss-myze
Sentence: Miss Ebenezer dismised her father completely, after his last will and testament had been suitably altered in her favour.
Etymology: Dismiss + miser. Has a similar meaning to dismiss - "to dismiss because of the priority of money in one's life".
Points: 674
Comments: Dismise
Discoveria - 2007-02-02: 04:36:00
NB Americans may feel that the spelling should be 'dismize', but I couldn't do that without losing the reference to 'miser'.
wordmeister - 2007-02-02: 11:07:00
Don't worry, Americans aren't miserly with letters... Use as many as you want!