Verboticisms

Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: Dang-sst

Sentence: "Dang it!" said Helen, after she opened her umbrella indoors while tripping over a black cat and falling under a ladder. It was hours before her feeling of dangst began to lighten.

Etymology: Dang + angst. Angst is technically the philosophical dread and anxiety about the world because of the future being unknowable.

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Created by: catgrin

Pronunciation: spoo-feyt

Sentence: A sense of spoofate overcame Angela as the toothpaste plopped onto her new silk shirt. She had to laugh - bitterly.

Etymology: combination of root words spoof +fate

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: fay tah liss terr ik al

Sentence: No matter how frequently Mr. right escaped her clutches, it nver ceased to maker feel fatalisterical.

Etymology: fatalistic hysterical

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Created by: ekath

Pronunciation: diss-ten-ny

Sentence: The dissteney sank into her stomach as she managed to stub her toe while reaching for the china, which now lay on the tile floor in a thousands bitter sharp shards.

Etymology: from diss + destiny

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: car-mah-slapt

Sentence: Jill was having one of those days when nothing was going right and she felt completely karmaslapped.

Etymology: karma (fate) + slapped (i.e. bitchslapped)

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COMMENTS:

Been there...got the haircut. - urbanwookie, 2007-04-01: 19:50:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kar mad

Sentence: Yes Wendy Murphy was upset. It happened again. It was another example of the karmad she had felt lately. Whatever could go wrong, did go wrong...Murphy's Law indeed. And now again her breakfast was ruined. The bread had fallen and landed butter-side down...on her not so clean floor. It probably was because she never learned. Don't butter the bread before you put it in the toaster. It never just pops up, it always goes flying when it is done!

Etymology: Karma (the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny;fate;kismet) & Mad (very foolish;affected with madness or insanity)

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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: Fay-ta-tricked

Sentence: Feleeny Meania was always finding herself faytatricked somehow. She begain to question herself. Had she been so mean to others that she was now being repaid by the tricks that fate was playing on her?

Etymology: Fayta: Taken in part of the word fate-Destiny, an inevitable course of events Tricked: A mischievous action; a prank

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: dis-met

Sentence: Janene got a bonus of $100 for her hard work on one of her accounts. Her car broke down on the way home and it cost her $300 to get it fixed. She made some extra money at a part-time job and spent all of it on the speeding ticket she got hurrying to get there on time. It's just another of life's cruel jokes. It's dismet!

Etymology: dis (rap slang, short for disrespect) + kismet (fate; destiny)

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: dess-tun-eez-chide

Sentence: every week he bought a lottery ticket..except this week... and as he watched his numbers come up he was filled with a sense of destinyschide

Etymology: chide, destinys child

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Good one! - BMott, 2007-03-08: 23:48:00

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Created by: Sed8ed

Pronunciation: ka-lam-i-fluck-t

Sentence: Everytime she turned around fate threw litte problems in her path to remind her she was calamiflucked

Etymology: calami from calamity + f from "ifuseek" + lucked from luck = calamiflucked

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flucked = foul-lucked as well. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-08: 08:07:00

Right you are! - Sed8ed, 2007-03-09: 05:02:00

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