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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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Malefelicitation
Created by: ArsMajika
Pronunciation: MAL-eh-FEH-li-sih-TAY-shun
Sentence: "At the office holiday party, Bob was saying far too many malefelicitations to the foreign finances committee."
Etymology: Maleficent and Felicitations
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
Assimibrate
Created by: kafka
Pronunciation:
Sentence: At the core of the marketing device known as "Santa Clause" is a barely veiled assimibration by large corporations of third world countries.
Etymology: "assimilate" and "celebrate"
Politicallyovercorrectness
Created by: BrakX
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Man... all this happy holidays stuff instead of Merry Christmas is politicallyovercorrectness
Etymology:
Accostodiate
Created by: torgo
Pronunciation: acost-owe-dee-ate.
Sentence: In response to an excess of political correctness it has become de rigeur to spread accostodiations to all.
Etymology: Accost is to greet someone but not necessarily in a friendly way. And odiate comes from the latin "to hate".
Athelutations
Created by: davidave
Pronunciation: A thel u TAY shuns
Sentence: Recognizing his coworkers diverse cultural backgrounds, Mark greeted the room with neutral athelutations.
Etymology: Elision of atheism and salutations.
Merhunkquanmiss
Created by: SpazKaz
Pronunciation: Mer-hank-quan-miss
Sentence: Merhunkquanmiss asshole
Etymology: From the bullshit combination of all cultures
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