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DEFINITION: To get what you wished for, but not exactly what you wanted.

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Pink

Created by: sunnaaa

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Frustratisfied

Created by: alabaster

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Sentence: I needed a place to stay tonight, but getting arrested for credit card fraud at the hotel was not what I had in mind.

Etymology: frustrated + satisfied

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Wishwatch

Created by: aircrayola

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Wishiprocation

haldean

Created by: haldean

Pronunciation: WISH-IH-PRO-KAY-SHUN

Sentence: I didn't want him to die, really; it was just a figure of speech! I wasn't counting on any wishiprocation.

Etymology: WISH - desire, want (English) RECIPROCATION - to get what one deserves (English)

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Wishappointment

Created by: Scrumpy

Pronunciation: wish-uh-point-muhnt

Sentence: Ken received his wishappointment but the transmission promptly fell out of it.

Etymology: Wish - (to hope for) disappointment - (let down)

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Wishper

Created by: Methylphenidateian

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Sentence: Like wind as a genie she rubbed the lamp of her life, in a loudish wish, but it only came back to her as a wishper, so subtely, so soft, it was not exactly what she'd wanted; but she could accept it anyhow.

Etymology: whisper + wish = wishper

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Inadblurtment

joelb

Created by: joelb

Pronunciation: in-ad-BLERT-ment

Sentence: Jesse provoked Samantha's inadblurtment by consistantly agreeing with all of her likes and dislikes.

Etymology: inadvertant + blurt + statement

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Disappgot

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: dis-uhp-got

Sentence: He felt like Fred Flintstone, with that "wah, wah, wah, wahhhhh" sound in the background when she made eye contact with him, but flipped him the bird curtly. He skulked home disappgotten again, but far better than being totally ignored.

Etymology: disappoint + got

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Leprechaunsequence

Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: Lep-ruh-KON-suh-kwence

Sentence: The little dude in the green coat and hat seemed so friendly at first, but the leprechaunsequence of asking for "a hot chick" was a bucket of KFC original recipe.

Etymology: Leprechaun (magical being) + consequence.

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Antignome

Created by: noztril

Pronunciation: an-tahy-nohm

Sentence: His failure was a result of his antignome ambitions.

Etymology: anti + gnome

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