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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.
Verboticisms
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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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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:
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]
Lucketydootbarbatrick
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: lukety/doot/barba/trik
Sentence: Lucketydootbarbatrick - life's got me by the ..... again
Etymology: lickety-split barbatrick + luck + doot
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COMMENTS:
Long live the Barbapapas - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-08: 12:20:00
Congratualations on the birth of their new born son Karmababa. - Stevenson0, 2007-03-08: 12:53:00
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Deusexmockina
Created by: FreakyDeak
Pronunciation: Dayoos-ex-mock-ee-na
Sentence:
Etymology: Deus Ex Machina + mock
Repolinder
Created by: mana1066
Pronunciation: ri'po'lin'der
Sentence: I was completely repolindered at the sight of the mess, causing a dramatic outbreak
Etymology: repo as in reposession of sanity + 'inder as in reminder
Scrowned
Created by: superbananaman
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I just got scrowned when my milk flew into the air and poured all over my phone and landed in my fish tank.
Etymology:
Murphydent
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: mør-fy-dent
Sentence: And just as he raced in to the finish-line ahead of the other's, he had a horrible murphydent; a flock of seagulls attacked his car and made him spin.
Etymology: Murphy's Law - everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Accident - unintended error.
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COMMENTS:
Isee now that I read the definition a little wrong... Oh well, a slight murphydent. - allwise, 2007-03-08: 02:05:00
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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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Serendipiteous
Created by: swallowedbyafish
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: serendipity + piteous
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COMMENTS:
I really like this word, but it would be much better with a sentence... - petaj, 2007-03-09: 02:18:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by paintergrl1313.
Thank you paintergrl1313! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by paintergrl1313. Thank you paintergrl1313. ~ James
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