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DEFINITION: v., To prepare for holiday events where you must chat with irritating co-workers or nagging relatives, by consuming just enough alcohol to make you feel "relaxed". n., A person who arrives at a party pre-inebriated.
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Festipsy
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: festipsē
Sentence: In an attempt to avoid last year's sotluck debacle of a Christmas party, the planners scheduled a brunch soiree. Nonetheless several people still arrived festipsy.
Etymology: festivity (the celebration of something in a joyful and exuberant way) + tipsy (slightly drunk)
Fauxmas
Created by: jmotsch
Pronunciation: foe mass
Sentence: After a full day of toasting, Jim was totally fauxmassed when he arrived at the children's choir performance. I must always fauxmas before attending midnight mass.
Etymology:
Festibuzz
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: festəbəz
Sentence: Lew was nervous about going to his first office ”Holiday” party. He had only had this job for two weeks and hardly knew anybody. All that changed when he arrived sporting an elf costume and a raging festibuzz. The outfit might have been forgiven, the pickling perhaps but kissing Mr. Bossypants full on the lips, maybe not. Strangely when he arrived for work on Monday Lew’s security badge didn’t seem to work on the entry door and a box with his personal stuff was sitting on the curb.
Etymology: festival (an annual celebration) + buzz (intoxication)
Hollydrunk
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: hollee - drunk
Sentence: Nathan showed up for the Christmas party hollydrunk. His santa suit was rumpled, his eyebrows were wild and he kept talking about leaving Rudolph at the mall.
Etymology: hoiday, holly, drunk
Jollitipple
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: JOL-ee-Tip-uhl
Sentence: After a couple of "steadiers" Bob, a hoptimist with a 'corona' of confidence, descended upon his workplace's Christmas party like a festilence, and jollitippled fellow-workers who normally 'drove him to drink".
Etymology: JOLLY: Slang. slightly drunk; tipsy 2.Informal. to talk or act agreeably to (a person) in order to keep that person in good humor, esp. in the hope of gaining something. "They jollied him along until the job was done." 3.To cause to be jolly; to make good-natured; to encourage to feel pleasant or cheerful; -- often implying an insincere or bantering spirit; hence, to poke fun at. [Colloq.] TIPPLE:to drink (intoxicating liquor), esp. repeatedly, in small quantities.
Yuletiedoneon
Created by: xirtam
Pronunciation: yool-tahyd-wuhn-on
Sentence: Gary yuletiedoneon and arrived drunk to the Christmas party.
Etymology: yuletide: the Christmas season. + Tied one on: Slang - to get drunk.
Alchohollyjolly
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: al-co-hol-ly-jol-ly
Sentence: Kris was having an Alcohollyjolly Christmas and arrived at the office party lit like a Christmas Tree. Usually quiet and reserved, he was nervous about talking to people he didn't know, so he allowed himself some liquid courage beforehand. Showing up late and dressed in a Santa Suit, he hit the egg-nog right away. His coworkers laughed and dismissed the behaviour, but they drew the line when he began to offer the women there a chance to check out his "package" and go to his "sleigh" to see Rudolph. The next day he realized that it's probably not a good idea to get too jolly at a law firm's Holiday party when he exchanged his Santa Suit for a Sexual Harassment Suit.
Etymology: "A Holly Jolly Christmas,"(1962) -- a popular Christmas song sung by Burl Ives and composed by Johnny Marks, a Jewish composer who also penned "Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer," "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year." + alcohol: intoxicant
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COMMENTS:
Good one - Nosila, 2009-12-23: 08:15:00
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Hotbutteredchum
Created by: Nuwanda
Pronunciation: hot-but-turd-chum
Sentence: Normally, Ted was kind of a drag, but on the holiday cocktail party circuit, he was everyone's hotbutteredchum.
Etymology: Hot buttered rum, a delicious winter libation, altered to incorporate chum, a word for a pal.
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COMMENTS:
Another funtastic creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-12-19: 10:24:00
Funny indeed!!! - mweinmann, 2008-12-19: 11:08:00
Fits the definition like a hand in a glove, too! - silveryaspen, 2008-12-19: 20:54:00
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Priestamate
Created by: Niktionary
Pronunciation: pree-estah-mate
Sentence: "If I have to go to one more of Herb's Lodge brother's parties, I have to priestamate with plenty of that eggnog. Which one has the rum in it?"
Etymology: prepare+fiesta+estamate
Merrynaded
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: mehr-ree-nayd-ed
Sentence: (True story): My wife and I and a friend attended a champagne tasting, then went home and sampled some single malt scotch and then proceeded to the Christmas party already merrynaded.
Etymology: Merry + (Mari)naded
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-18: 14:12:00
Positively brilliant word! - libertybelle, 2007-12-18: 14:50:00
Sounds like you were on a merry-go-round. Great word, DAVE ! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-18: 16:03:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by yellowbird Thank you yellowbird ~ James
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Is it just for the moment we live? What's it all about when you SOT it out, Alkie?
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