Verboticisms

Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Paw-n-fr-ee

Sentence: Now that the credit crunch is well under way many people will be forced to turn to buying on credit from those pawn-free credit offers. This means that you are entitled to free gifts and 0% for the first six months, then when you are completely hooked the rate goes up to 19% therefore having great difficulty keeping up the repayments.

Etymology: Pawn(a person who is used by others for their own purposes) + Free(Something given for nothing. OR IS IT???)

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pawnfree, as free as the wind blows - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-24: 09:18:00

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Created by: GlobalGallery

Pronunciation: whats-myne-iz-jawz

Sentence: "Eehh! No praablem, wotsmineisjaws" uttered Rodrigo as he handed the crisp new fifty dollar bills over to his desperate customer. "But you know the score man, it's a nickel on the dollar for every day you owe me...RIGHT!".

Etymology: The words of a loan shark.

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Created by: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: SPAM SCAM

Sentence: I couldn't believe it when I got an email that said "The Perfect Man Dating Site". I hate spam mail and I usually ignore it. But this one had come into my Inbox, so I convinced myself that maybe it had been sent to me by a friend. It advertised that only 10% of the members were women and the rest were good, decent, successful men all looking for women. They were having a contest to encourage more women to join these poor (um...but not poor) lonely men on this site. So of course I went on to the website and joined. This was worse than spam it was spamscam. It was one of the worst ever rip-offs. I visited the site several times over the next week. Later I got a bill for $548. I hadn't read through the terms of membership (in my haste) and now I owed this place money for having looked at these profiles.

Etymology: SPAM: unwanted mail SCAM: trick to cheat someone out of something or into something

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COMMENTS:

Turned out to be a very expensive date! - Mustang, 2009-02-24: 19:00:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: fiss kal rek tit ewed

Sentence: When the sales director of ostrich holdings offered her a chance at fiscalwrecktitude through a fixed rate extortion on her mentgage, she was confused.

Etymology: fiscal rectitude, wreck

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COMMENTS:

so am I (confused that is) but I love the word - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-24: 09:01:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: blond issss ew

Sentence: The bank offered a blondissue which, if you didn't read the small print, was to dye for.

Etymology: bond issue, blonde

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: mort/al/age

Sentence: The sales pitch and the rates were good we decided to lock into a 60 year mortalgage.

Etymology: MORTALGAGE - from MORTAL + MORTGAGE or MORTAL + ENGAGE

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COMMENTS:

very clever - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-24: 08:59:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: feylout

Sentence: Denise was excited to get another "special" credit card offer. How could she turn it down? She was pre-approved. One more piece of plastic, one more failout...

Etymology: fail (to fall short of success) + bailout (an instance of coming to the rescue, especially financially)

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: len DAYN jer

Sentence: Aiyo Yu keeps getting calls from PityBank (motto: "We Want to Help You Feel Forever In Our Debt") offering her the "opportunity" to roll her balances on other cards "free of charge" into the card she holds from this particular company. She also gets mailings from the same company inviting her to apply for various-sized loans that would pay off all her debts and give her "just one convenient monthly payment." These lendangering practices are helping a lot - helping PityBank, that is. She doesn't seem to realize that rolling all your outstanding debts into one payment is only helpful if you actually pay down the balance every month, and don't run up new balances. Most of her paycheck is a lendangered species at this point.

Etymology: endanger + lend

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COMMENTS:

An all-too familiar tale, sadly! - Nosila, 2010-09-07: 21:10:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: skam-wow

Sentence: Having been hammered over and over by a recent infomercial about a wipe cloth, wheneven Heathcliffe would see ads of any kind for those 'too good to be true' products or services he would involuntarily shout "Scamwow!", oftentimes startling people near him.

Etymology: Blend of scam and the exclamation'wow', a play on Shamwow, a commercially advertised product.

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Created by: DnBrown

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