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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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Salneutation
Created by: waxlion
Pronunciation: SAL-new-tay-shun
Sentence: The hoard dropped all defenses and began to sing 'Kumbaya' when they heard the salneutation from an unbiased, socially sanctioned bringer of good tidings and cheer.
Etymology: neutral + salutation
Shalohoho
Created by: Mirandala
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Shalohoho, everyone! Have some holiday hamentashen!
Etymology: Shalom + ho ho ho
Cheersmear
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: cheer-smear
Sentence: Bill attempted a holiday greeting that would satisfy everyone but ended up cheersmearing and caused some offense.
Etymology: cheer (greet) + smear (mess up, slight)
Yulephemism
Created by: simon1081
Pronunciation: yule-fe-miss-m
Sentence: Rabbi Scwartz offered the Kwanzaa celebrators a hearty Yulephemism
Etymology:
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
Quifintation
Created by: xyankee
Pronunciation: quif-in-tation
Sentence: My friends will be comming over for some group quifintation and cheer.
Etymology:
Condisendyule
Created by: stevezoid
Pronunciation: con-dis-end-yule
Sentence: He was trying to incorporate everyones belief in his Christmas Office party speech but came off sounding condisendyule.
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