Verboticism: Divorfeit

'My mother is a washing machine'

DEFINITION: n. The sacrifice a mother makes when she gives everything to her children, including life itself, and then simply lets them go. v. To give someone everything and then watch them walk away.

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Divorfeit

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Pronunciation: di-vor-fit

Sentence: My poor mother had a hard time letting me go to college so far away, but eventually she came to terms with her divorfeit

Etymology: divorce (in the separation sense, not the end-of-a-marriage sense) + forfeit

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