Verboticism: Wishfulfoulment
DEFINITION: v. To get what you wished for, but not exactly what you wanted. n. A wish come true that's a total let down.
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Wishysquashy
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The drift of his desire was so misunderstood that he ended up getting a wishysquashy reaction.
Etymology: Wish + squash
Diswishillia
Created by: danboaz
Pronunciation: dis-wish-illia
Sentence: Carl was plagued with his curse of diswishillia, a disease you would not want to wish on your wordt enemy
Etymology: dis: away, wish + illia: disease
Desiregret
Created by: FreakyDeak
Pronunciation: De-zi-er-ee-gret
Sentence:
Etymology:
Wishwreck
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: wuish - rek
Sentence: Oliver was the victim of a wishwreck this week. This often happened to him. He would build up a fantasy about something or someone in his mind and when he finally got what he wanted, reality was often disappointing.
Etymology: wish, wreck
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COMMENTS:
Reality is for those who lack imagination - artr, 2009-07-28: 09:39:00
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Disrequest
Created by: Luke01
Pronunciation: Dis-re-kuest
Sentence: The man made a disrequest to...
Etymology: Dislike request
Yeano
Created by: ChrisCarrk
Pronunciation: yee-no
Sentence: Yeano... thats not wat i wanted.
Etymology: yea!+ oh no!
Mishwish
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: mish-wish
Sentence: Jonny was playing his song on the street corner when he closed his eyes and mishwished for a huge hit. The last thing he heard was a roar and screech, which he imagined as a crowd of fans. Unfortunately, it was a cement truck and it didn't stop until it hit the wall behind him.
Etymology: mistaken wish
Iwanic
Created by: Fleury
Pronunciation: eye-WAH-nik
Sentence: It was pretty iwanic -- he did, after all, tell the blackjack dealer "hit me!"
Etymology: sloppy conflation of "ironic" and "I want it"
