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DEFINITION: n. The type of headache you get from buying too many things with your credit card. Note: Symptoms do not usually appear until the following month.v. To buy yourself a huge credit card headache.
Verboticisms
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Neuralgiamex
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: Nyoor-al-jam-ex
Sentence: The worst, most menacing headache is the Neuralgiamex, for nothing and no one can heal the wounds of one's credit card.
Etymology: Neuralgia (headache) + amex ("American Express", a popular credit card)
Migrastic
Created by: Paloma
Pronunciation: my-GRAS-tic
Sentence: My online shopping habit has created a migrastic-inducing monthy ritual of opening my credit-card bills.
Etymology: migraine + plastic
Signusheadache
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: sign/us/hed/ake
Sentence: I don't know which was worse, my signusheadache or the carpal tunnel in my writing wrist after mall hopping on Saturday.
Etymology: sign + sinus headache
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COMMENTS:
That type of charging always leads to delay-aw-ache at night. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-04: 06:45:00
nightmares such as "A mall and the night visitors" - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 11:30:00
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Mastergraine
Created by: ShuffleWordGameGuy
Pronunciation: mas-ter-greyn
Sentence: Her mastergraine completely defeated her after she realized she didn't have enough money to pay her credit card bill.
Etymology: Credit Card + Migraine
Bankruptalgia
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: bankrupt-al-gee-a
Sentence: In a fit of pique, Morgan went on a shopping expedition with the corporate credit card purchasing a fleet of vehicles, upgrading PCs for all the staff and treating them all to a long liquid lunch. In addition to their hangovers, they also suffered bankruptalgia the next month when the company went broke and they all lost their jobs.
Etymology: bankrupt + algia (pain) - inspired also by the rupture of a blood vessel in an aneurism
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COMMENTS:
Anything with "-algia" in it gets my vote. But don't hold me to that. - Clayton, 2007-07-04: 12:04:00
Hey Clayton - there are 3 definitions today with algia in them - petaj's sounds the most severe though - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 15:46:00
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Cranialcreditsyndrome
Created by: weareallbeautiful
Pronunciation: k-ray-nee-'l-k-red-it-sin-dro-m
Sentence: He felt a wave of cranialcreditsyndrome come upon him as he looked at the credit card bill from last month.
Etymology: From the word cranial meaning of the skull from the medieval latin root cranium which was from the greek kranium meaning skull which was related to the word kara meaning head
Swipegraine
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Swipe-grain
Sentence: As soon as I made my last purchase, my cranium was throbbing with a wicked swipegraine.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
That is why I prefer to slide instead of swipe.. much easier on the noggin' - MisUndrstd, 2007-07-05: 22:07:00
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Comments:
Sounds debititating!
Oops, that was meant to be a comment on credache!
Today's definition was illustrated by Franke James. Thank you Franke. ~ James