Verboticism: Stubsidy
DEFINITION: v. To get what you wished for, but not exactly what you wanted. n. A wish come true that's a total let down.
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Obliteraled
Created by: jboehnker
Pronunciation: uh blit' er eld
Sentence: Bob's hopes were obliteraled the moment he saw the twelve-inch pianist appear; the genie had obviously misheard his wish.
Etymology: obliterated + literal
Foolfilment
Created by: sisternyx
Pronunciation: fool-fil-ment
Sentence: Jim wished for a vacation but his foolfillment was that he was fired Friday.
Etymology: fully fooled
Wishwreck
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: wuish - rek
Sentence: Oliver was the victim of a wishwreck this week. This often happened to him. He would build up a fantasy about something or someone in his mind and when he finally got what he wanted, reality was often disappointing.
Etymology: wish, wreck
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COMMENTS:
Reality is for those who lack imagination - artr, 2009-07-28: 09:39:00
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Desirefluous
Created by: thedreness
Pronunciation: Dee-zigh-err-flu-us
Sentence: To gaze into her yearning eyes longingly was sufficient. To have her boyfriend come from their table to mine to ask me if I had a problem was desirefluous...
Etymology: Desire + Superfluous
Disdreamay
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: diss-dreem-may
Sentence: She couldn't wait to get her new Ken doll for Christmas but suffered much disdreamay when she discovered that he had plastic hair and not flowing real hair like Barbie.
Etymology: dismay (thwarted, disappointed) + dream (wish, hope)
