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DEFINITION: n., The wondrous, and the "wonder how I'm going to pay for it" feelings of the holiday shopping season. v., To stumble through a shopping mall like a zombie on a buying binge, grabbing anything and everything that will fit on your credit card.
Verboticisms
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Yesmastercardia
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: yes/master/cardia
Sentence: During the holiday season I suffer from extreme yesmastercardia and let my credit card lead me like a divining rod to every overpriced bargain. I am compelled to buy for I must obey, I must obey
Etymology: yes master + master card
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COMMENTS:
kudos - bzav1, 2007-12-14: 07:40:00
...followed by mastercardial infarction when ya get the bill in January. Good word Jabber. - purpleartichokes, 2007-12-14: 08:58:00
Another great word and week! We all say yes master to you in unison. - Stevenson0, 2007-12-14: 12:41:00
or followed by attackacardia ... if you don't pay on those credit cards! This word with its yes master dominates the day the way that credit cards can dominate a life. Terrific word! - silveryaspen, 2007-12-14: 14:09:00
Bravo: another great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-14: 15:01:00
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Plastickorgy
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: plas-tik-AWR-jee
Sentence: Roxie never put off till tomorrow buying what she could buy today. And she was never so happy than at Christmas time, when her uberplasticity 'maxed out' in a plastickorgy of buying "happiness" for kith and kin alike.
Etymology: Blend of PLASTIC: a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered; "do you take plastic?" [syn: credit card, plastic] TICK: , n. [Abbrev. from ticket.] Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick. To go on trust, or credit. & ORGY: any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending" [syn: orgy, binge, splurge]
Stupemaxifaction
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: STOOP-ih-max-ih-faction
Sentence: Ebinezer flung back the musty curtains and threw open the frosty windows which looked down upon the busy village street below. Pure snow slightly muffled the sound of silver sleighbells and cash registers, but gladdened the heart of the old ex-skinflint deep within him. Barely pausing for his boots and top hat, Ebinezer could not wait to immerse himself in this STUPEMAXIFACTION which seemed to fill everyone with the profound joy of giving which had eluded him for so long. Now if only that 48 inch plasma HDTV was still in the shop window.....Ho Ho HO !
Etymology: STUPEfy+MAXImize+satisFACTION= STUPEMAXIFACTION.....STUPEFY:to make stupid, groggy, or insensible,the state of being stupefied by intoxicants or pervasive jolliness; Middle English stupifien, modification of Latin stupefacere, from stupēre to be astonished + facere to make, do .....MAXIMIZE:the greatest quantity or value attainable or spent, an upper limit allowed (as by a legal authority or one's credit rating); Latin, neuter of maximus biggest.....SATISFACTION:the payment through penance of the temporal punishment incurred by a sin or excessive credit abuse, fulfillment of a need or want,no matter how costly,the quality or state of being satisfied, no matter how briefly; Sixties English,Can't get no,Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin satisfaction-, satisfactio, from Latin, reparation, amends, from satisfacere to satisfy.Hey Hey Hey.
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COMMENTS:
Is it Christmas yet?
http://isitchristmas.com/ - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:32:00
Trusting a crackhead to do all your shopping...Obnoxious alkies who talk without stopping...Drunken pole dancers with gold nipple rings...These are a few of my favorite things.
(not really) - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:49:00
That was an original MetrohumanX musical contribution. All together now... - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:51:00
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Patrombie
Created by: jajsr
Pronunciation: Pa-trahm-bee
Sentence: Waiting until the last minute to buy her Christmas gifts, Susan joined her fellow patrombies at the mall.
Etymology: Combination of "Patro" from patron - one who buys the goods or uses the services offered especially by an establishment; and "mbie" from zombie - a person held to resemble the so-called walking dead.
Mesmeryuleogy
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: mez-mer-YULE-oh-gee
Sentence: With their brains completely befuddled by the frantic shopping spree Brad and Linda offered one another sincere mesmeryuleogy at all the great buys they were making, not realizing they had maxed out 4 credit cards and were working on a fifth with purchases of what was likely to find it's way to the recesses of closets of their friends.
Etymology: Blend of mesmerized (spellbound), Yule (Christmas, or the Christmas season) and Eulogize (to praise highly)
Stupenerous
Created by: Niktionary
Pronunciation: stoo-pen-r-us
Sentence: Once Max had taken a second loan on the house to send his daughter to Cancun for her Sweet Sixteen with her 19 year old boyfriend, he realized he may have been overly stupenerous
Etymology: Stupid+ generous+ spend
Fooltide
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: fool-tide
Sentence: At 5:00 pm on October 31st the "fooltide carols" begin to work their voodoo on their unsuspecting targets. Accompanied by the glow and sparkle of lights and tinsel, and the lure of huge sales, the happy little tunes plant themselves in the brains of shoppers who wander trancelike through the aisles, knowing full well that they're destroying their credit rating, but unable to resist the hypnosis of the television commercials that even make buying a Lexus with a big red bow seem reasonable. At 12:00 noon on December 25 the music stops and everyone goes back to their lives as if nothing happened.
Etymology: wordplay on Yuletide -- fool: one who lacks good judgement; one acts unwisely on a given occasion + tide: time or season - most often used in combination such as yuletide or Christmastide
Splurgia
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: Splurge-e-ah
Sentence: Alphonso's new credit card was burning a big hole in his pocket. The urge to splurge was making him twitch. The only release from this afflueagony was to let loose and succumb to the fits of splurgia that had become his only source of happiness.
Etymology: Splurge + mania
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COMMENTS:
perfect, sounds like a medical condition - Niktionary, 2007-12-14: 13:34:00
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Obligiftion
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: ob lih GIF shun
Sentence: I love that feeling of obligiftion that holidays and birthdays engender. (Not.) There's nothing like spending money on someone you don't really like so that he/she doesn't talk negatively about you to other friends or relatives. It is a joy that is only exceeded by the thoughtful, useful, and attractive (not) gift that said person in turn gives you through his/her own sense of duty and obligiftion, and then expects to see displayed in your house when he/she visits.
Etymology: obligation + gift
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COMMENTS:
obligreatword! - Nosila, 2009-12-19: 01:53:00
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Storpor
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: store-per
Sentence: A state of deep storpor had been induced among the shoppers. They were defeated. The cheery elves and the bawling infants, the fluorescent lights and grotesque displays, the relentless rasping tannoy urging them to 'buy before it's gone', had triumphed. The shoppers dully storpored out their pin codes, vainly attempting to salvage some vestige of self-purpose.
Etymology: store + torpor (a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen Thank you silveryaspen ~ James
silveryaspen - 2007-12-14: 14:44:00
Liked all the words!
Thank you silveryaspen for the great idea ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-12-17: 19:12:00
Into the valley of malls, went the $5 hundreds ... It was the light of the charge brigade!
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James