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DEFINITION: The feeling you get when fate plays a stupid little trick on you, just to remind you that life isn't fair.
Verboticisms
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Prankful
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: rhymes with thankful
Sentence: Emma was eternally prankful as she always seemed to be getting the rough end of the pineapple when it came to life's little ups and downs.
Etymology: prank + thankful
Vexistentiality
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Veks-ee-sten-shee-AL-a-tee
Sentence: When Bob's life momentarily turned from "joie de vivre" to "jolt de vivre," his vexistentiality reminded him of life's vicissitudes.
Etymology: Vex-to cause one to feel annoyed, dissatisfied or irritated, etc. Existential-pertaining to existence -ity-expressing state or condition.
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COMMENTS:
I kant help but camuserate with Bob's predicament. It hesse to be the sartre of thing that happens when you let your kierkegaard down. - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-07: 10:32:00
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Murpholated
Created by: Jeaneai
Pronunciation: Mirf-oh-late-id
Sentence: Janine felt so murpholated when her shatterproof vase fell right on the linoleum floor and, you guessed it, shattered completely.
Etymology: From Murphy's Law, which is basically that everything that can go wrong will.
Deitrick
Created by: earljw
Pronunciation: DAY-e-trik
Sentence: I had an overwhelming sense of deitrick when I realized I was late for an interview and my car wouldn't start.
Etymology: deity + trick
Kismetaunt
Created by: Pseudonym
Pronunciation: kiz-me-tawnt
Sentence: "Every light was red; I think I'm the victim of a kismetaunt."
Etymology: kismet (fate) + taunt
Karmatoast
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: karma/toe/st
Sentence: It was all over - she looked at the butter melting onto the floor and realized she was karmatoast
Etymology: karma (fate) + comatose (stupefied) + toast (done)
Karcruelma
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: kahr-krool-mah
Sentence: Don't cry over spilled milk and that's how the cookie crumbles - typical comments she would blurt out when bouts of karcruelma occurred.
Etymology: karma + cruel
Murphimized
Created by: brankoz
Pronunciation: MURF-imm-eyezd
Sentence: Ed McMahon just knocked on my door ... to ask when my neighbor would be home. It made me feel quite murphimized
Etymology: adjective, from the murphy guy that wrote all those "life sucks" laws
Murphsmack
Created by: FreeToys
Pronunciation: murf' - smak
Sentence: Those contributors expecting obedience from the usual candidates are about to get a Murphsmack from Ron Paul
Etymology: Murphy's Law / Smackdown
Serendemonty
Created by: Nicked
Pronunciation: ser' en dem' mon tee
Sentence: When I typed the final keystroke on my thesis and jubilantly threw up my hands thereby sending my laptop crashing to the floor broken beyond repair, I knew serendemonty was at work.
Etymology: "sere____ty" from serendipity--"the ability of making fortunate discoveries by accident" "demon" from demon--"an evil spirit"
Comments:
FreeToys - 2007-09-07: 06:59:00
Murphsmack
FreeToys - 2007-09-07: 06:59:00
dang, asleep again
RachelPhillipson2007 - 2007-09-08: 08:00:00
aw im last
Delilah - 2007-09-09: 16:24:00
The only way to truly beat this thing is to switch to cereal for breakfast. lol!