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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.
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Sellebralhemorrhage
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: sell/ee/brall/hem/or/aj
Sentence: My bank account suffered a sellebralhemorrahage after my last shopping spree.
Etymology: cerebral hemorrhage + sell
Debtache
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: det - aik
Sentence: After her Sunday spending spree, Nancy came home with a splitting debtache. Good thing that she had purchased ten bottles of Tylenol on sale. When she received the bill, she finished off the other nine bottles.
Etymology: debt, arche, play on headache
Dankitini
Created by: rahullotli
Pronunciation: dan-ki-ti-ni
Sentence: If i didn't have a credit card i wud b safe from dankitini
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
nice - rahullotli, 2007-07-14: 14:15:00
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Sinvoice
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sinˌvois
Sentence: In order to compensiate for her breakup with her boyfriend, Joyce went on a shopping spree. She went through a considerable amount of plasticoin. Her euophoria lasted nearly a month until the sinvoice arrived.
Etymology: sin (an act regarded as a serious or regrettable fault, offense) + invoice (a list of goods sent or services provided, with a statement of the sum due for these; a bill)
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
Enderythralgia
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˌɛndəɹɪˈθɹældʒiə/
Sentence: Enderythralgia is quite common and most medical experts consider it a rational response, and thus not a true pathology. Endomelanalgia (pain caused by _not_ being in the red) is a much rarer and more serious condition.
Etymology: end- (in) + erythr- (red) + -algia (pain) "pain caused by being in the red"
Buynowpainlater
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: bye-now-PAYN-lay-turr
Sentence: As Alex opened the mail, he was stricken with buynowpainlater, the result of buying a diamond for a girl who broke up with him the next day.
Etymology: "buy now, pay later" + pain
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COMMENTS:
poor Alex - I'll bet she was a slimpicker too - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 12:18:00
You really have to wonder about Alex's dates sometimes. - mplsbohemian, 2007-07-04: 13:53:00
Great word mpls! - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-04: 14:03:00
nice - galwaywegian, 2007-07-05: 03:40:00
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Debtspondency
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: det/spawn/den/see
Sentence: His debtspondency was a direct result of acting like a debtsperado.
Etymology: debt + despondency
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COMMENTS:
Debtlightful word! - Nosila, 2009-07-16: 12:09:00
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Newralgia
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: newer/algia
Sentence: He developed a serious case of newralgia when he replaced all his appliances with new ones.
Etymology: neuralgia + new
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