Verboticism: Karmosity

'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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Destinyschide

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: dess-tun-eez-chide

Sentence: every week he bought a lottery ticket..except this week... and as he watched his numbers come up he was filled with a sense of destinyschide

Etymology: chide, destinys child

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COMMENTS:

Good one! - BMott, 2007-03-08: 23:48:00

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Serendupity

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: serr-en-DEWP-eh-tee

Sentence: Thinking that things were actually going her way for a change, Daisy was once again struck with a bout of serendupity when karma visited her, and a sure bet turned into a total disaster.

Etymology: Blend of 'serendipity' (n. the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident) and 'dupe' (v. to make a dupe of)

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Moiraed

Created by: EonaFrae

Pronunciation: moy-raid

Sentence: Susan moiraed through the days events; life really did suck.

Etymology: Moirai [name of The Fates from Greek mythology] + ed [suffix]

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Deusexmockina

Created by: FreakyDeak

Pronunciation: Dayoos-ex-mock-ee-na

Sentence:

Etymology: Deus Ex Machina + mock

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Fatalisterical

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: fay tah liss terr ik al

Sentence: No matter how frequently Mr. right escaped her clutches, it nver ceased to maker feel fatalisterical.

Etymology: fatalistic hysterical

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Karmatic

Created by: thoughtnomad

Pronunciation: car ma tic

Sentence: It was karmatic for John, a man who disdained the poor, when he lost his inheritance.

Etymology:

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Suckality

Created by: BMott

Pronunciation: Suk-al-ity

Sentence: Her last piece of toast hit the floor face down, the suckality of it caused her to shed a tear.

Etymology: Suck: Doh, life sucks sometimes. -- ality: from reALITY, which sucks sometimes.

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petaj Still it's better than a fate-ality - petaj, 2007-03-09: 02:03:00

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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

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COMMENTS:

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

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

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

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

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Fatealistic

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: fait - ah - list - tik

Sentence: Gloria discovered that just by changing one letter in the word fatalistic, she had a new word for the feeling she was having... Every little thing seemed to go wrong for her and because of these little events which kept adding up, she began to feel fatealistic.

Etymology: fate, fatalistic

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COMMENTS:

Fateall attraction! - Nosila, 2009-09-25: 17:33:00

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Karmaslapped

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: car-mah-slapt

Sentence: Jill was having one of those days when nothing was going right and she felt completely karmaslapped.

Etymology: karma (fate) + slapped (i.e. bitchslapped)

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Been there...got the haircut. - urbanwookie, 2007-04-01: 19:50:00

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