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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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Hellofaux
Created by: andystephenson
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Oh - I think you just performed a hellofaux.
Etymology:
Greetgrate
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: GREET-grayt
Sentence: Jim thought that yelling "Merry Kwanzaa, bro! Smokin' menorah" was cool, but greetgrating the imam was a bad idea.
Etymology: greet + grate (to annoy)
Decembarrass
Created by: wmullen
Pronunciation: de/sem/BEAR/ass
Sentence: Though he means well, my father tends to decembarrass himself with each year's card.
Etymology: December / embarrass
Pandalize
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As usual, Archie was pandalizing the Jeffersons by offering Christmas watermelon.
Etymology: a cross between "pan-cultural" and "scandalize"
Republandism
Created by: POKETNRJSH
Pronunciation: re-pub-bland-ism
Sentence: That commercial wishing me a happy "chrismakwanzakah" was filled with republandism.
Etymology: What's more bland than a poorly-worded politically correct phrase that some republican thought up?
Hermonilize
Created by: currentlyinsolitude
Pronunciation: her-moan-ahleyeze
Sentence: The party had been hermonilized, so many different religions had gathered
Etymology: Spanish
Oblivioffend
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: uh-bliv-ee-uh-fend
Sentence: He continued to oblivioffend our guests by saying "All faiths have equally ridiculous celebrations. So lets just party."
Etymology: From oblivious meaning unaware and offend meaning to cause resentment.
Nihilistmasism
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: nihil/ist/mas/ism
Sentence: The only things acceptable today when discussing Christmas are nihilistmasisms.
Etymology: nihilism +(Christ)mas + ism
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