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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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Seasincorectness
Created by: JckDnl
Pronunciation: Sea-sin-kor-ekt-nes
Sentence: Everyone at the party had had enough of Charlie's seasincorectness
Etymology: Season + Incorrectness
Glitchgreeting
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: glich/greet/ing
Sentence: Had Bismark Long-Pocket owned a copy of "The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook" or "Cultural Etiquette: A Guide for the Well-Intentioned", he would never have uttered such a glitchgreeting to the Quack-pots and Nag-Gnostics in his office.
Etymology: glitch: a malfunction or minor problem with unintended consequences + greeting: an expression of good wishes
Mistlebloe
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: missle-blo
Sentence: Robert stood under the mistletoe hoping to get kissed. But whenever he opened his mouth, he'd mistlebloe, and then get slapped.
Etymology: missle+blow=the explosive version of mistletoe
Korpundus
Created by: ChrisCarrk
Pronunciation: koar-pun-diss
Sentence: What a korpundus greeting!
Etymology: none!
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)
Herewish
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: hair-a-wish
Sentence: The herewish raised a few eyebrows, but we all raised a glass on jewish christmas.
Etymology: heretical-offensive wish-good intent
Doonesburiate
Created by: nicolase
Pronunciation:
Sentence: While the Parkers would have liked to economize during the holidays by sending one card to their entire address book, their culturally unpopular devotion to Satan suggested the wisdom of doonesburiating to some extent, at least with Jim's work associates, and Patty's bridge club.
Etymology: Term derived from "Doonesbury", the most well-known of several widely read newspaper cartoons that emerged in the 1980s, characterized by an edgy and irreverent rhetorical humor used as wry and subterranean social commentary, but safe and inoffensive eno
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