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DEFINITION: A traditional cleansing ritual used to prepare for the New Year -- often includes the consumption of special tonics or potions.
Verboticisms
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Alcoholostomy
Created by: Ahoytheship
Pronunciation: alcohol-ostomy
Sentence: She flushed her systems with an alcoholostomy of vodka and orange juice to make room for more vodka.
Etymology: alcohol+colostomy
Vodklense
Created by: Lyokia
Pronunciation: vod-clense
Sentence: She felt like she had to vodklense, this wasn't her fault, it's tradition.
Etymology: From vodka and clense.
Neosipping
Created by: bghicks
Pronunciation: neo - sipping
Sentence: In order to cleanse her memory of the previous years diasasters, she took to neosipping.
Etymology: neo - new sipping -drink
Toxiceilidhgy
Created by: Psychicsi
Pronunciation: tox-i-kay-lee-gy
Sentence: Fatima and her fellow students studied hard for their toxiceilidhgy assignment, which involved the consumption of a variety of punch and egg nog.
Etymology: Toxicology, mixed with a traditional Scottish social event - the ceilidh.
Purgotic
Created by: Carole
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After the Christmas and New Year reveling, a strong purgotic was called for.
Etymology:
Regineration
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ree/jin/er/ay/shun
Sentence: Once a year I "Dr. Who" it and swallow an entire bottle of gin in an attempt at regineration. Wait till you see my new persona this year.
Etymology: regeneration + gin
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COMMENTS:
Hey Jabberwocky! Good one! Top of the list! Maybe it's because you use gin... Vodka seems to be the tonic of choice for most verbotomists... - wordmeister, 2007-01-02: 16:42:00
I suspect it's an age thing - I feel a little like Yoda - Jabberwocky, 2007-01-03: 16:37:00
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Drunkleaning
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: drunk-kleen-ing
Sentence: Way to many people will be drunkleaning this newyears.
Etymology: drunk, as in alcohol, + cleaning, as in cleansing.
Blottoflush
Created by: Maureen
Pronunciation: blotto - flush
Sentence: Had a great night at the pub but now I need to blottoflush for New Year's Eve.
Etymology: blotto - under the influence of drink Flush - to cleanse
Revodkalize
Created by: fonka99
Pronunciation: ree-vodka-lies
Sentence: New year's is sometimes disappointing, so to prevent any memories of this event, it is essential to revodkalize early and often throughout the night.
Etymology: From revitalize and vodka
Spiritflush
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: spear-it-flush
Sentence: he wondered if one bottle of vodka would be enough to spiritflush his system
Etymology: spirit and flush
