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'The toast fell butter-side down.'

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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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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Serendipiteous

swallowedbyafish

Created by: swallowedbyafish

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology: serendipity + piteous

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COMMENTS:

petaj 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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Merphdesten

Created by: tonya87

Pronunciation: Mer-F-Dest-en

Sentence: Damn Merphdesten, you strike again!

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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

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Fateality

mrskellyscl

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: fayt-al-i-ty

Sentence: Sitting at his desk, Joe contemplated his fateality when he realized that he wasn't still dreaming and he really didn't have his pants on.

Etymology: reality: quality and state of things being true + fate: supposed force or princible that predetermines events + fatality: a decree made by fate or the quality of being doomed by disaster

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COMMENTS:

There's sale down the street he should go to where pants are half off! - Nosila, 2009-09-25: 17:36:00

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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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Suckatude

Created by: paintergrl1313

Pronunciation:

Sentence: After I dropped my toast I was over come with a feeling of suckatude

Etymology: Suck+aditude

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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.

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Dismet

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: dis-met

Sentence: Janene got a bonus of $100 for her hard work on one of her accounts. Her car broke down on the way home and it cost her $300 to get it fixed. She made some extra money at a part-time job and spent all of it on the speeding ticket she got hurrying to get there on time. It's just another of life's cruel jokes. It's dismet!

Etymology: dis (rap slang, short for disrespect) + kismet (fate; destiny)

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Horrorscope

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: hor-or-skOp

Sentence: After endlesss days of bad luck, Jill checked her horrorscope indicating she is in for a life of bad karma.

Etymology: horror/horoscope

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-03-08: 12:11:01
Today's definition was suggested by paintergrl1313.
Thank you paintergrl1313! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-09-25: 00:04:00
Today's definition was suggested by paintergrl1313. Thank you paintergrl1313. ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-09-25: 08:47:00
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