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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.
Verboticisms
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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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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
Candyhammered
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kandēhamərd
Sentence: Joe didn*t really mean to show up at the company holiday party woozy. The boss gave him a large box of rum-laced chocolates as a gift and he sampled a few to be polite and then a few more. By party time he was candyhammered.
Etymology: candy (a sweet food made with sugar or syrup combined with fruit, chocolate, or nuts) + hammered (drunk)
Putrumintumtum
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: poot/rum/in/tum/tum
Sentence: When he received his invitation to the Christmas lunch he took the little drummer boy's advice and putrumintumtum.
Etymology: put + rum + tum (as in tummy) + pa rum pum pum pum
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COMMENTS:
Hysterical!!! - libertybelle, 2007-12-18: 10:36:00
I need to ruminate on this one! Very clever and offbeat! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-18: 16:17:00
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Hoptimist
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: HOP - tuh - mist
Sentence: After a couple of "steadiers" Bob, a hoptimist with a 'corona' of confidence, marched smilingly into his workplace's Christmas party, greeting heartily fellow-workers who normally 'drove him to drink".
Etymology: HOPTIMIST: Blend of hop(s), used in beer brewing. Consider slang "On the hops", and Optimist: One who feels that things will work out well. STEADIER: (sl) a beer to steady the nerves. CORONA: 1.A crown 2. Mexican beer. DRIVE TO DRINK: Make s.o so irritate
Hollyjollyhammered
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: hol-ee-jol-ee-ham-erd
Sentence: Sven got hollyjollyhammered at the party so he didn't have to small talk with his numbskull co-workers.
Etymology: as in have a holly jolly Christmas + hammered (as in drunk)
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)
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.
Socialcoholize
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: sosh-i-al-co-hol-ize
Sentence: I was not at ease at the party until I got socialcoholized.
Etymology: social+alcohol
Christmellowed
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /kris-mel'-lohd/
Sentence: First I christmellowed with a couple nips of brandy before the holiday party, until I heard minglebells in my head, and that loosened me up enough to impress my boss, and Gail from Marketing, with some funny stories of my Uncle Frank, and then I even did an imitation of my dear uncle every Christmas Eve, right there on the floor.
Etymology: Christmas (Old English, Cristes maesse "Mass of Christ") + mellowed - mildly and pleasantly intoxicated (Old English, mearu. Meaning "slightly drunk" is from 1690.)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by yellowbird Thank you yellowbird ~ James
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silveryaspen - 2008-12-19: 01:11:00
Is it just for the moment we live? What's it all about when you SOT it out, Alkie?
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