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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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Celebracialize
Created by: crazytown
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Johnny's father attempted to celebracialize with the other parents at the public school's Holiday Festival, but was only met with awkward silence.
Etymology:
Deisploitate
Created by: kword
Pronunciation: De-Sploi-Tate
Sentence: Johnny, the beggar, offered many deisploitational greetings to passers by hoping to capitalize off of inter-faith mandates of charity this holiday season.
Etymology: From Latin deus god, and Latin explicitum, past participle of Deed or act, esp. a notable or heroic one.
Exmaspale
Created by: frenzi
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Nick always tried not to offend anyone, yet somehow, after a few drinks, he always managed to exmaspale somebody.
Etymology: From xmas - the non-christian way of referring to Dec 25th, and the phrase "beyond the pale" - meaning just outside the bounds of acceptable behaviour.
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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Yulephemism
Created by: simon1081
Pronunciation: yule-fe-miss-m
Sentence: Rabbi Scwartz offered the Kwanzaa celebrators a hearty Yulephemism
Etymology:
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