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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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Suckality
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: Suk-al-ity
Sentence: Her last piece of toast hit the floor face down, the suckality of it caused her to shed a tear.
Etymology: Suck: Doh, life sucks sometimes. -- ality: from reALITY, which sucks sometimes.
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COMMENTS:
Still it's better than a fate-ality - petaj, 2007-03-09: 02:03:00
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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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Schlumpchumped
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: SHLUMP-chump'd
Sentence: Just my luck, thought Irving, as his car key broke off in the door lock. Schlumpchumped again! Thanks God!
Etymology: schlump + chump
Repolinder
Created by: mana1066
Pronunciation: ri'po'lin'der
Sentence: I was completely repolindered at the sight of the mess, causing a dramatic outbreak
Etymology: repo as in reposession of sanity + 'inder as in reminder
Deusexmockina
Created by: FreakyDeak
Pronunciation: Dayoos-ex-mock-ee-na
Sentence:
Etymology: Deus Ex Machina + mock
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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Humilifated
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: rhymes with humiliated
Sentence: Carole was humilifated by the continuing mishaps that plagued her.
Etymology: humiliate (to cause a painful loss of dignity) + fate (destiny)
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COMMENTS:
I guess that's just the way the fortunecookiecrumbles. - petaj, 2007-03-08: 02:56:00
excellent - wordmeister, 2007-03-08: 08:23:00
Nice one! - BMott, 2007-03-08: 23:49:00
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Sucktion
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: suk/shun
Sentence: Sucktion is the feeling I get when I log in and see so many clever words already submitted
Etymology: suck + suction
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COMMENTS:
hear ya - porsche, 2007-03-08: 12:04:00
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Scrowned
Created by: superbananaman
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I just got scrowned when my milk flew into the air and poured all over my phone and landed in my fish tank.
Etymology:
Lucketydootbarbatrick
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: lukety/doot/barba/trik
Sentence: Lucketydootbarbatrick - life's got me by the ..... again
Etymology: lickety-split barbatrick + luck + doot
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COMMENTS:
Long live the Barbapapas - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-08: 12:20:00
Congratualations on the birth of their new born son Karmababa. - Stevenson0, 2007-03-08: 12:53:00
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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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