Verboticism: Karmagettin
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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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
Stinkendipitous
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: stink-uhn-dip-i-tuhs
Sentence: The toast incident was just another in a never ending chain of stinkendipitous occurences.
Etymology: stink + serendipitous
Providented
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: prov-ee-dent-id
Sentence: After the sleepless night, the car alarm waking her at 4.30 and the heating failing to come on, the toast falling butter-side down was the final straw. Cheryl felt unfairly providented.
Etymology: providence (God's guidance over humans) + dented (to reduce or slightly injure)
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2011-02-08: 09:47:00
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Disstiny
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: diss-ten-ny
Sentence: The dissteney sank into her stomach as she managed to stub her toe while reaching for the china, which now lay on the tile floor in a thousands bitter sharp shards.
Etymology: from diss + destiny
Sucktion
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: suk/shun
Sentence: Sucktion is the feeling I get when I log in and see so many clever words already submitted
Etymology: suck + suction
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COMMENTS:
hear ya - porsche, 2007-03-08: 12:04:00
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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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COMMENTS:
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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Calamiflucked
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: ka-lam-i-fluck-t
Sentence: Everytime she turned around fate threw litte problems in her path to remind her she was calamiflucked
Etymology: calami from calamity + f from "ifuseek" + lucked from luck = calamiflucked
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COMMENTS:
flucked = foul-lucked as well. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-08: 08:07:00
Right you are! - Sed8ed, 2007-03-09: 05:02:00
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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]
Faytatricked
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Fay-ta-tricked
Sentence: Feleeny Meania was always finding herself faytatricked somehow. She begain to question herself. Had she been so mean to others that she was now being repaid by the tricks that fate was playing on her?
Etymology: Fayta: Taken in part of the word fate-Destiny, an inevitable course of events Tricked: A mischievous action; a prank
