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DEFINITION: To sacrifice your health, your family, and even a few friends to money, only to discover that money doesn't like you.
Cashstration
Top verboticism of the day created by elron
Pronunciation: cash-stra-shun
Sentence: Lew had given up everything to win the lottery, but cashstration set in and he ended up homeless.
Etymology: cash + castration
Created by: elron.
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Billaria: // "Well, I liked him until he started suffering from extreme billaria." Etymology: Created by: Paradox.
Martyrdoughm: /mahr-ter-doh-m/ Stan's martyrdoughm not only humiliated his cat, he was left with a sizeable debt from the cat castle he lovingly bought for him. Marbles decided to use the ugly thing as his fur ball depository instead. Etymology: martyrdom + dough ($) Created by: remistram.
Comments:
Clever word. Looks like Stan let the cat out of the bag. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-09: 18:02:00
Marbles couldn't Stan - d it any longer.. - remistram, 2007-08-13: 16:18:00
Contemptation: /con - tem - tation/ Arnold decided to leave the monastery to pursue a life of contemptation. Etymology: Contempt + temptation Created by: jesster.
Comments:
Great word, I've thought of it, too, a few months ago and as Erin McKean told me in her TechTalk video, that I ought to tell the other inventors about this mysterious mental connection, I googled this page, so greetings from Germany. (I think we also feel contemptation then drinking contemptatious alcoholic stuff, or when smoking, though I don't.) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7548057564471419291 - entryfee, 2007-11-03: 19:35:00
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Comments:
OZZIEBOB - 2007-08-09: 18:13:00
Have a friend who turns his "f" sounds into "b"s. So you've got my vote. Good word.
OZZIEBOB - 2007-08-09: 18:14:00
Have a friend who turns his "f" sounds into "b"s. So you've got my vote. Good word.