Verboticism: Contemptation
DEFINITION: To sacrifice your health, your family, and even a few friends to money, only to discover that money doesn't like you.
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Martyrdoughm
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: mahr-ter-doh-m
Sentence: Stan's martyrdoughm not only humiliated his cat, he was left with a sizeable debt from the cat castle he lovingly bought for him. Marbles decided to use the ugly thing as his fur ball depository instead.
Etymology: martyrdom + dough ($)
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COMMENTS:
Clever word. Looks like Stan let the cat out of the bag. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-09: 18:02:00
Marbles couldn't Stan - d it any longer.. - remistram, 2007-08-13: 16:18:00
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Monstruate
Created by: tubeyes
Pronunciation: maw-en-est-ray-teh
Sentence: If Jim spends a few more years in the rat race of corporate America, he'll monstruate his life away!
Etymology: Money, Menstruate
Contemptation
Created by: jesster
Pronunciation: con - tem - tation
Sentence: Arnold decided to leave the monastery to pursue a life of contemptation.
Etymology: Contempt + temptation
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COMMENTS:
Great word, I've thought of it, too, a few months ago and as Erin McKean told me in her TechTalk video, that I ought to tell the other inventors about this mysterious mental connection, I googled this page, so greetings from Germany. (I think we also feel contemptation then drinking contemptatious alcoholic stuff, or when smoking, though I don't.) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7548057564471419291 - entryfee, 2007-11-03: 19:35:00
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Suckaflirt
Created by: niko23
Pronunciation: suckah-flirt
Sentence: A dud trying to get the girl hes been waiting to mary in his little fantasy world, sucks at love & dating.
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Benjamistaken
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: BEN-juh-miss-take-en
Sentence: Eric spent his whole life in pursuit of the almighty buck, thinking it would make him popular with the ladies and respected among his peers, but in the end he was simply benjamistaken and died alone, even though he was buried in the finest casket money could buy.
Etymology: Benjamins ($100 bills) + mistaken
Billaria
Created by: Paradox
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "Well, I liked him until he started suffering from extreme billaria."
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Debtmagnet
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: debt-mag-net
Sentence: Friendless Fred was a debtmagnet despite (or because of) his unwavering quest for riches.
Etymology: chickmagnet + debt
Nicmac
Created by: coolkids58
Pronunciation:
Sentence: why did you nicmac,your so mean you just broke my heart
Etymology:
Sponfoolie
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: spon-FOO-lee
Sentence: Bob could think of, and talk about, nothing other than money. He kneaded the "dough", chased the "buck" and laundered the filthy lucre. But by-and-by this singleminded sponfoolie finished up a kinless and kithless crock, without enough "moolah" to buy a muesli bar.
Etymology: Blending based on "spondulie" and "spondulicks". A slang term(s)possibly from Gk "spondulicks", the adjectival form of "spondulox", a type of shell used as early "money" and fool.
