Words by tomcurran00

4 words contributed

• Harmoney
  "Harmoney" is a noun which has the same pronunciation as "harmony."
  The word "harmony" comes from combining the words "harmony" and "money" to mean "financial accord."
  Origin: The word was coined by my mother when she wrote me a letter giving advice about how to make a success of my marriage: "Always live in harmoney."
  2/22/13
• Marrage
  It is pronounced "marriage."
  The noun "marrage" means "a bogus marriage."
  
  A marrage is a marriage with the letter "i" omitted.
  
  Example: "I always felt that I wasn't part of the relationship, even before I discovered that my partner had duped me into a marrage so that he could avoid deportation."
  
  2/22/13
• nov
  A "nov" is an unfinished novel, one that was incomplete when the author died. An example is the final novel of Charles Dickens: "The Mystery of Edwin Drood."
  Origin: "Nov" is a noun formed by dropping the last syllable of "novel" and it is pronounced "naw-v."
  2/22/13
• upsettled
  The word "upsettled" is an portmanteau adjective formed from "upset" and "unsettled."
  2/22/13

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