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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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Fatestration
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: fae stray tion
Sentence: There was an overall sense of fatestration at the annual singles Valentine's Day dance when no women showed.
Etymology: fate frustration
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)
Fateality
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: fayt-al-i-ty
Sentence: Sitting at his desk, Joe contemplated his fateality when he realized that he wasn't still dreaming and he really didn't have his pants on.
Etymology: reality: quality and state of things being true + fate: supposed force or princible that predetermines events + fatality: a decree made by fate or the quality of being doomed by disaster
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COMMENTS:
There's sale down the street he should go to where pants are half off! - Nosila, 2009-09-25: 17:36:00
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Vicioussitude
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: vish + iss + ih + tood
Sentence: The brakes on my car failed three days after the warranty expired... it's enough to give you a vicioussitude!
Etymology: vicious + (vicissitude combined with attitude)
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COMMENTS:
like it. - galwaywegian, 2007-03-08: 04:46:00
Thanks, person-from-Galway-or-so-I-assume. I know it doesn't *exactly* meet the definition, but as soon as it popped into my brain I knew I could not resist. - Osomatic, 2007-03-08: 04:49:00
I think it's as close as may be. Makes Fortune sound like vengeful agent. - petaj, 2007-03-08: 05:50:00
I tried saying this word and sprayed slobber all over my monitor... - Alchemist, 2007-03-08: 14:43:00
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Metagogy
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: MEH-tuh-goh-jee
Sentence:
Etymology: meta- ("beyond") + [peda]gogy ("the study of teaching")
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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Karmad
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)
Disstiny
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
Providented
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: prov-ee-dent-id
Sentence: After the sleepless night, the car alarm waking her at 4.30 and the heating failing to come on, the toast falling butter-side down was the final straw. Cheryl felt unfairly providented.
Etymology: providence (God's guidance over humans) + dented (to reduce or slightly injure)
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2011-02-08: 09:47:00
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Dismet
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)
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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