Verboticisms

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: merch - hunt - izer

Sentence: Stanley was a Sears merchuntiser. Once he saw a potential customer, he tailed them throughout the store waving his arms and talking about the benefits and low cost of every item the customer walked past. Sometimes people bought things just to get rid of him.

Etymology: merchandiser, hunter

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sīrəˈnād

Sentence: Melody is a wonderful salesperson. Even her detractors have to admit she is hard to resist. Once she starts her sirenade, the sale is all but final. The first verse usually starts with **How may I help You Today?** The final chorus... **Come see us again**. Her song can be soothing, flirting, or annoying but always unrelenting. Anyone who wanders too close buys something. A customer once tried to return an ugly green sweater and returned home with two sweaters, one blue and one yellow. **Blue and yellow make green** made sense when Melody said it.

Etymology: siren (Greek Mythology each of a number of women or winged creatures whose singing lured unwary sailors onto rocks) + serenade (a piece of music sung or played in the open air, typically by a man at night under the window of his lover)

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Created by: cohenarie

Pronunciation:

Sentence: The obnoxiously obsequious sellcubus cleaved to me the moment I entered the store, offering a pitch on each item I browsed.

Etymology: sell + succubus (or incubus)

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Created by: iwasatripwire

Pronunciation: flee-mar-ket

Sentence: The clerks in that boutique always turn it into such a fleemarket

Etymology: flee + flea market

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COMMENTS:

I like this one - guess that makes them fleemarketers - petaj, 2007-05-16: 23:10:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: ped/lur/push/urs

Sentence: Our local video store is full of peddlerpushers who sneak up behind you when you're deep in thought and then shadow you relentlessly as you peruse the movie selection

Etymology: peddler + pusher + pedal pushers

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COMMENTS:

funny AND fashionable! - galwaywegian, 2007-05-16: 06:06:00

how did you see that so fast - you must work in our video store - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-16: 06:09:00

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: sales-jerk

Sentence: The salesjerk at the car dealership turned the big "Sellabration" into "sellabrasion" when he kept trying to sell me a gargantuan gas guzzler that was painted green that he wanted to get rid of, even after I told him I wanted a "green car" to help the environment.

Etymology: wordplay on salesclerk -- jerk: foolish, rude or contemptible person

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COMMENTS:

Like sellabrasion too! - artr, 2009-12-01: 07:05:00

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: ann-tee-shawp-pest

Sentence: If Rudy saw any antishoppests around he would hide in the changeroom until the coast was clear.

Etymology: anti-shop-pest

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Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: imm-PED-lur

Sentence: The impeddler was so obnoxious that I stormed out of the shop, accidentally breaking some cheap plastic products on my way out.

Etymology: impede (to obstruct or hinder) + peddler (a travelling seller of goods)

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Created by: DaddiezGyrl

Pronunciation:

Sentence: The commisher bombarded me as I entered the store.

Etymology: Combo of commission and pusher

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: shopper-block-it

Sentence: I was mad keen to cash in my coupon for the low-rise, stretch, stonewash, studded, stovepipe legged jeans at half-price, but when I reached the store I cowered in the doorway before the salesresistant. There was Ursula, a shopperblockit par excellence with her stentorian voice and sergeant-major mannerisms bearing down on me.

Etymology: shopper docket (sales promotions printed on the back of receipts) + block (obstruct/hinder)

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