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DEFINITION: To offer non-denominational, inter-faith seasonal greetings, which are nevertheless a tad politically incorrect.
Verboticisms
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Misunifaholyate
Created by: theantiipod
Pronunciation: Mis-uni-fa-holy-ate
Sentence: The media tends to misunifaholyate an awful lot during the holidays, I feel a little offended.
Etymology: Mis + unification + holy
Seculate
Created by: parabasis
Pronunciation: SECK-yoo-late
Sentence: "Happy Whatever!" he seculated.
Etymology:
Congratugrate
Created by: wysware
Pronunciation: con-grat-tu-grate
Sentence: I found his "merry substitute-holiday-of-your-choice" greeting particularly congratugrating.
Etymology: congratu (lations) grate (irritate)
Happeeholidize
Created by: bohdel
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Janet was forced to happeeholidize all the customers who came into her coffee shop until one woman grinched to the manager that she celebrated no holidays and wouldn't be coming back.
Etymology: From the English Happy Holidays, with the verb suffix -ize.
Assimibrate
Created by: kafka
Pronunciation:
Sentence: At the core of the marketing device known as "Santa Clause" is a barely veiled assimibration by large corporations of third world countries.
Etymology: "assimilate" and "celebrate"
Yulecide
Created by: jboehnker
Pronunciation: yool' cide
Sentence: Bob was found guilty of first-degree yulecide after a picture from the office holiday party revealed him kissing the boss's wife in the supply closet.
Etymology: From the Dutch "Yulec" meaning "mistletoe", and the Japanese "Ide" meaning "belt buckle"
Comments:
wordmeister - 2006-12-12: 10:34:00
Hey quippingqueen, Good glitch! And I like your quack-pots and nag-gnostics too.
warped - 2006-12-12: 15:58:00
My bad-I didn't see there was already a word like holicide (yulecide). Also, "Fauxmas" is also mine, before I figured out how to log in. :/
warped - 2006-12-12: 15:59:00
Also-yaaay, i'm in the top five right now!
hvhtim - 2006-12-12: 16:01:00
don't forget to vote for politicalmas the holiday of political correctness
wordmeister - 2006-12-12: 17:46:00
Hye babel, you're still at the top even with all the new competition. May I wish you a "feliznaviwhosyourdaddy"!
babel - 2006-12-12: 18:15:00
You may meister, and congrats for 'feliz..' jabberwocky. i was really shocked to see all these new entries, thought there had been a mass spamming.
Jabberwocky - 2006-12-13: 13:01:00
hats off to a true wordsmith Babel