Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: To offer non-denominational, inter-faith seasonal greetings, which are nevertheless a tad politically incorrect.
Verboticisms
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Ireverendism
Created by: lunaticbythesea
Pronunciation: ER rever end ism
Sentence: Yeah, the boss spewed a bunch of Ireverendisms at the Christmas party,he managed to offend everyone.
Etymology: cross between irelevent,ireverent and Reverend.Denoting an obscure,psuedo,religious yet thoughoughly inept attempt to cover every group of people with the same lame holiday greeting.
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COMMENTS:
MY first submission, if history holds it will also be my best, they can only get worse from now on. - lunaticbythesea, 2006-12-12: 18:25:00
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Celeberate
Created by: Sissyphus
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Disdaining any particular seasonal tradition, he celeberated them all with "Happy week of the highest suicide rate!"
Etymology: portmanteau of celebrate and berate
Masholiday
Created by: Dancebert
Pronunciation: Mash-ol-i-day
Sentence: Tom's birthday was December 30th so it was always combined with New Years Eve as a masholiday.
Etymology: Mash - to smash together Masher - (obsolete slang) a man who makes passes at women Holiday - duh ...
Intergreeting
Created by: Luke01
Pronunciation: Intuurgreeting
Sentence: Santaclaus intergreeted the taliban.
Etymology: International and greeting
Holyhail
Created by: Guthlaf1
Pronunciation: HO-lee-HAYL
Sentence: We exchanged holyhails, and went our separate ways.
Etymology: holy - associated with a divine power hail - to greet enthusiastically, praise
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COMMENTS:
If it makes any difference, I was also Guest... then had to go and register! - Guthlaf1, 2006-12-13: 06:45:00
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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
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.
Hohohumdrum
Created by: geekgrrl
Pronunciation:
Sentence: 'I like to say Merry Christmas, instead of Happy Hoidays. It just seems so HoHoHumdrum.'
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