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DEFINITION: n. An individual, or an organization, which profits by selling fear of imminent global destruction and/or eternal damnation. v. To profit from the prophecy of doom.
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Purseerveer
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: poors seer veer
Sentence: There's always been a company who can purseerveer through the doom. Prudential Insurance was around when Noah built the Ark. They sold him flood insurance, boat insurance, travel insurance,livestock insurance and pet medical insurance. Why do you think they have a rock on their logo? It's not the Rock of Gibralter, but Mount Ararat. There was a good faith clause in their policy.
Etymology: Purse (A sum of Money) & Seer (an authoritative person who divines the future; a person with unusual powers of foresight) & Veer (a general direction in which something tends to move)and Wordplay on Persevere (be persistent, refuse to stop)
Horrocaustic
Created by: w5lf9s
Pronunciation: horro.caus.tic
Sentence: "How can you live with such a horrocaustic? - His every move is driven by his fear of dying tomorrow
Etymology: from "horror" + "holocaustic" pertaining to great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life.
Greensleeveen
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: greeeen sleeeee veeeeeen
Sentence: This greensleeveen was a small smooth adorable ecothief, more a laprachaun than a leprachaun with a great line in blarney and the morals of a whore.
Etymology: green sleeveen (Irish; a sly obsequious smooth-tongued person [from Irish Gaelic slíbhín] :It isn't any wonder at all that a child would be a liar and a sleeveen and a trampler of the roads with the first man that nods to her when her mother is a foolish person that she can't trust. —Mary, Mary)
Profiterrorist
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: proff-fit-ter-or-ist
Sentence: Profiterrorists are making a bad name for those conservation groups that actually have a legit cause to defend.
Etymology: profiteer+terrorist
Holycost
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: hOly-cost
Sentence: The preacher hailed fire from the pulpit. Telling his flock to donate money to his cause, or they could be damned for eternity. He uses the old holycost trick to extract money.
Etymology: holy, as in religigous/holocaust, devastation or destruction/cost, as in money
Fleamonger
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: flee-mong-er
Sentence: The fleamongers always call just as you sit down to dinner.
Etymology: flea + monger (a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way)
Cashicide
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: Kash-e-side
Sentence: "Good afternoon, this is Tracy with the Ecosave Organization. If you don't donate $10 today our world will end." Justin said "Hey, that's cashicide! Lose my number!"
Etymology: Cash - Money : Cide - From Suicide, if you don't donate you are essentially commiting suicide.
Gorewhore
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: Gor + Hor
Sentence: That global warming thing really got her riled, she dedicated her life to the path of a true Goreqwhore after that.
Etymology: Al Gore + Whore
Apocalyptick
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: apokk-er-lip-tik
Sentence: MegaCorp had long found that employing a professional apocalyptick was the surest way to sell all their products - from medicines and religious tracts all the way up to nuclear shelters.
Etymology: apocalypse + tick (an irritating blood-sucker that can be hard to get rid of)
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COMMENTS:
good one - porsche, 2007-02-06: 10:40:00
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Necrophobicorp
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: Nek-row-foe-bee-core/korp
Sentence: The most famous of all necrophobicorps, the church, became popular with the genius natives of Africa and the Southern States.
Etymology: From "necrophobia" with is the (irrational) fear of death and "corp" which is an abbreviation of corporation, and two letters short of corpse.
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COMMENTS:
pretty creepily accurate but good word - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-06: 12:23:00
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Comments:
ErWenn - 2007-02-06: 22:47:00
Too many good words; not enough votes.
squirreleater - 2009-09-11: 17:23:00
I would have gone with republicans