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DEFINITION: The feeling you get when fate plays a stupid little trick on you, just to remind you that life isn't fair.
Verboticisms
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Karmosity
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: karm/os/ity
Sentence: I'm filled with karmosity when I drop a coin and it rolls into the sewer, the bread lands peanut butter side down, or the milk I just bought is sour.
Etymology: karma + animosity
Fatel
Created by: Poeiden
Pronunciation: fa-tal
Sentence: Ever had that fatel feeling every time something screws up your life?
Etymology: fate + fatal
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COMMENTS:
It's a nice word, but I would expect that in everyday use the pronunciation wouldn't be distinct enough from 'fatal' to be entirely satisfactory. - Nettle, 2007-09-07: 08:52:00
ITS a bit good but its too relevant to the word 'fatal' , you kno wat i mean? - RachelPhillipson2007, 2007-09-08: 08:03:00
Yeah, I know what you mean - Poeiden, 2007-09-08: 09:28:00
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Draggravation
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: drag + rav + ay + shun
Sentence: I missed every dang traffic light on the way to work today - it was such a draggravation.
Etymology: drag + aggravation
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COMMENTS:
very good, my favorite, even better than mine! - brankoz, 2007-09-07: 16:41:00
Nice! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-07: 18:24:00
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Surprisapointment
Created by: haldean
Pronunciation: sur-PRY-za-POYNT-ment
Sentence: What's wrong? Oh just another surprisapointment. Everything was going perfectly, until my two girlfriends met each other.
Etymology: Suprise + Disappointment
Karmatoast
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: karma/toe/st
Sentence: It was all over - she looked at the butter melting onto the floor and realized she was karmatoast
Etymology: karma (fate) + comatose (stupefied) + toast (done)
Karcruelma
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: kahr-krool-mah
Sentence: Don't cry over spilled milk and that's how the cookie crumbles - typical comments she would blurt out when bouts of karcruelma occurred.
Etymology: karma + cruel
Inimistation
Created by: Hyperion
Pronunciation: In-im-ist-a-tion. I'm not very experienced with pronunciation guides, but I hope that helps...
Sentence: She felt utter despair at the inimistation that Destiny has dealt her today.. When would this day end?
Etymology: An amalgamation of the Latin word for unfair and the Greek word for fate, in the a vague sort of way. It is also related to inimical, with station referring to a place in life. The description continues in the Comments section of this Verboticism.
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COMMENTS:
I hope this qualifies... The spelling's a little odd, though... - Hyperion, 2007-09-09: 08:34:00
I've changed the spelling of the word, and refined its meaning. Continuing on the description... Therefore, it means both an unfair fate and a part of life that's bad for you, as well as a feeling of inimicality in relation to the world and frustration with it. Clever, huh? - Hyperion, 2007-09-09: 08:53:00
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Murphsmack
Created by: FreeToys
Pronunciation: murf' - smak
Sentence: Those contributors expecting obedience from the usual candidates are about to get a Murphsmack from Ron Paul
Etymology: Murphy's Law / Smackdown
Latamahimo
Created by: leomar
Pronunciation: la-ta-ma-hi-mo
Sentence: a word that describes "we can do nothing" la-ta-ma-hi-mo
Etymology: la, ta, mahimo
Moironic
Created by: jesster
Pronunciation: Moi -ron - ic
Sentence: Jody was thrilled when she discovered the beautiful antique cabinet at a yard sale for only $2. She spent the entire drive home planning how she would arrange her Hummel figurines in it. It was overwhelmingly moironic that when she arrived home, she found that her house had burned to the ground. All that was left of her extensive collection was a melted puddle of kitch.
Etymology: Moira ( Fate in Greek and Roman mythology, any of three goddesses who determined human destinies, and in particular the span of a person's life and his allotment of misery and suffering) + ironic
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COMMENTS:
great story - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-07: 12:33:00
That is a brilliant story, but I'm afraid I can't vote for this, because you used the word "ironic" incorrectly (thank you Alanis Morisette). - Pseudonym, 2007-09-08: 05:08:00
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Comments:
FreeToys - 2007-09-07: 06:59:00
Murphsmack
FreeToys - 2007-09-07: 06:59:00
dang, asleep again
RachelPhillipson2007 - 2007-09-08: 08:00:00
aw im last
Delilah - 2007-09-09: 16:24:00
The only way to truly beat this thing is to switch to cereal for breakfast. lol!