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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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Holicide
Created by: warped
Pronunciation: phonetic
Sentence: Some consider non-denominational cards an act of holicide.
Etymology: Holiday+Homicide
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
Marry
Created by: verndo
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Marry! Jesus didn't do it.
Etymology: Merry, Mary, to be married... clever high-pressure covert tactic to get you to marry.
Interculturalintro
Created by: MsRenee84
Pronunciation: Inter cultural intro
Sentence: He make an intercultural intro when he said feliz christmas.
Etymology:
Bombemotte
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: bomb mott
Sentence: Colin always knew how to stop a conversation dead with his bombemottes.
Etymology: its like dropping a 10 ton bomb on the conversation leaving total silence in its wake.
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.
Shachristmaseid
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As a confirmed multiculturalist, I wish everyone shachristmaseid greetings in December.
Etymology:
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