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DEFINITION: n. The feeling you get when fate plays a stupid little trick on you, just to remind you that life isn't fair. v. To suddenly remember that you've been screwed by the powers that be.
Verboticisms
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Randumb
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ran dum
Sentence: these randumb events were beginning to sow seeds of doubt about her ever having her own broadcasting corporation by the age of thirty
Etymology: random, dumb
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COMMENTS:
clever! - wordmeister, 2007-03-08: 08:23:00
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Stinkendipitous
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: stink-uhn-dip-i-tuhs
Sentence: The toast incident was just another in a never ending chain of stinkendipitous occurences.
Etymology: stink + serendipitous
Destinyschide
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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COMMENTS:
Good one! - BMott, 2007-03-08: 23:48:00
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Fateism
Created by: bobditty
Pronunciation: fate ism
Sentence: Due to fateism, bob had seven years of bad luck because he broke a mirror
Etymology: fate- destiny ism- randomness
Suckatude
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After I dropped my toast I was over come with a feeling of suckatude
Etymology: Suck+aditude
Kickmet
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kikmet
Sentence: Harry believes in kismet. Unfortunately he often ends up with kickmet instead.
Etymology: kismet (fate) + kick (strike or propel forcibly with the foot)
Karmatic
Created by: thoughtnomad
Pronunciation: car ma tic
Sentence: It was karmatic for John, a man who disdained the poor, when he lost his inheritance.
Etymology:
Calamiflucked
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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COMMENTS:
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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Dangst
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.
Destikneecapped
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: des/tin/nee/capt
Sentence: My New Year's resolution to get in to work on time every day was destikneecapped by a power failure and a subway delay.
Etymology: destiny + knee-capped
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COMMENTS:
love it - galwaywegian, 2011-02-08: 09:45:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by paintergrl1313.
Thank you paintergrl1313! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by paintergrl1313. Thank you paintergrl1313. ~ James
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