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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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Hoovermanuver
Created by: dmskb2000
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COMMENTS:
Great word ... says it all in a rhymetyme! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-01: 14:55:00
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Yearendema
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: yer-end-em-a
Sentence: She took the yearendema on the last stroke of midnight and spent New Year's Day running to her favorite room in the house!
Etymology: year for year and 'yer' - end which also refers to your butt - and that end with ema is a play on the word enema.
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COMMENTS:
Very Interesting! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-01: 19:40:00
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Boozeyears
Created by: bluenutria
Pronunciation: BOOZ-yeers
Sentence: "Hey, Rod. What are you doing for Boozeyears?" "Oh, just staying in with the family." "What?! That's lame!"
Etymology:
Neofication
Created by: inias
Pronunciation: nee-o-fee-kay-shun
Sentence: The process of neofication always includes consumption of alcohol at the new year's after-parties.
Etymology: new + purification.
Boozerwha
Created by: freakystyley
Pronunciation: Boo-Zer-Waa
Sentence: Apparently Billy had no idea that a boozerwha and an alchoholic are worlds apart.
Etymology: Booze + What
Indooxide
Created by: bobofet
Pronunciation: in-doe-ox-ide
Sentence: Sarah woke up with a hangover and drank some indooxide to clean out her body.
Etymology: indo for inside, oxide for cleanse.
Alcoclean
Created by: TheUrbanRabbit
Pronunciation: AL-co-cleen
Sentence: The annual alcocleaning party was held in Dei's apartment, where guests cleared away last year's guilt with multiple applications of apple margaritas.
Etymology: Alcohol + clean/cleaning
Rumification
Created by: imashelcha
Pronunciation: Ruh.mi.fi.KAY.shun
Sentence: My life sucks, but it's nothing a little rumification can't solve!
Etymology: Rum + ramification
Auldlangstoned
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /awld-lang-stohnd/
Sentence: Because of her tradition of getting Auldlangstoned well before midnight on New Year's Eve, Charlene could never quite remember how she'd brought in the new year — who she was with, or what she'd been doing — and she actually seemed resigned to that fatalistic custom, with her customary 'devil-may-care' attitude.
Etymology: auld lang syne - traditional New Years phrase and song; referring to 'the good old days' (from Scottish, auld "old" + lang "long" + syne "since") + stoned - intoxicated, inebriated (shortening of 'stone-drunk')
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COMMENTS:
Good try: looked to go the same way myself with "AULDLANGCATARIZE" But "She" who must be obeyed told me:" Don't be ridiculous!" - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-01: 19:46:00
I meant "AULDLANGCATHARIZE" - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-01: 19:48:00
Ow, that sounds painful, Oz. - Tigger, 2008-01-02: 02:31:00
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Shakalaka
Created by: Maxine
Pronunciation: shah kuh lah kuh (guttural)
Sentence: Maureen's shakalaka made her feel enthusiastic for a few days. Then it was nose to the grindstone again.
Etymology: from "shakalaka," a word from a primitive and superstitious human grunting language which was accessed through phylogenetic memory
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COMMENTS:
almost a chant word ... a fun and funny one ... a word worth repeating at least three times as you meditate upon the coming of the new year! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-01: 19:27:00
Whoomp! There it is... - Tigger, 2008-01-02: 02:37:00
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