Verboticism: Cashstration
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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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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Monsacdis
Created by: kellii3
Pronunciation: mon sac dis
Sentence: he gave up every thing only to discover that monsacdis was goin to happen and there was no way out of it .
Etymology: mon - money sac - sacrifice dis - discovery
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
Cashstration
Created by: elron
Pronunciation: cash-stra-shun
Sentence: Lew had given up everything to win the lottery, but cashstration set in and he ended up homeless.
Etymology: cash + castration
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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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Nooomamoteseyorheafamlthily
Created by: pwincess9430
Pronunciation: dunno how it sounds?!?
Sentence: people with nothing
Etymology:
Parishiltality
Created by: mythman
Pronunciation: pair-iss-hil-TAHL-ih-tee
Sentence: The gossip-mags are searching for the next celeb to commit a ParisHiltalty.
Etymology: "Paris Hilton" (who's cut herself and her siblings from the family fortune), and "fatality"
Billaria
Created by: Paradox
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "Well, I liked him until he started suffering from extreme billaria."
Etymology:
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
