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DEFINITION: To find something you really want in a shop, but then, since you cannot buy it immediately, to hide it so that no one else will get it.
Verboticisms
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Hideandgosneak
Created by: Maxine
Pronunciation: hiyd and go sneek
Sentence: While shopping, Martha hid the 90% discounted high-end purse in a pile of stale, leftover Christmas candy. With some luck, she'd be able to run home and grab the gift card she forgot. She's a regular hideandgosneaker.
Etymology: hide and go seek, sneak
Filchnik
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: filch - neek
Sentence: Guess I better fichnik these sneakers before somebody else sees them, so I can buy them when I have the money.
Etymology: filchnik: filch and sneak + filchnik
Hideaway
Created by: xirtam
Pronunciation: hahyd-uh-wey
Sentence: Josh decided to hideaway the last Linkin Park CD with the John Denver CD's so he could come back for it later.
Etymology: Hide: to conceal from knowledge or exposure; keep secret. + Away: from Layaway - a method of purchasing by which the purchaser reserves an article with a down payment and claims it only after paying the full balance.
Pretail
Created by: Niktionary
Pronunciation: pree-tayil
Sentence: A master at the art of pretail, I managed to get the last shirt in that store in my size.
Etymology: pre+reatail
Sequestershop
Created by: maryamwebster
Pronunciation: see-QWE-ster-shop
Sentence: I had my eye on a great pair of Manolo Blahnik's, but had to sequestershop them so I could run to the ATM.
Etymology: sequester = to hide away shop = the act of shopping
Cashmerouflage
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /kazh-meer'-uh-flahzh/
Sentence: The red cashmere sweater was perfect and the New Year's sale would last until Sunday, but Sue's credit card was already maxed out and payday was still two days away, so she cashmeroflaged it with the summer dresses, where hopefully nobody would find it before she could buy it.
Etymology: cashmere - the fine, downy wool of the Kashmir goat (old spelling of Kashmir) + camouflage - a device or stratagem used for concealment (French, from camoufler, to disguise)
Hidonistic
Created by: freakystyley
Pronunciation: Hi-Do-Nis-Tick
Sentence: That Shirley is such a hidonistic character when it comes to shopping for jeans.
Etymology: Hide + Hedonistic
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COMMENTS:
Thought it would have been rawhidonistic leather trousers. Good word. - galwaywegian, 2007-12-26: 07:09:00
funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-26: 11:28:00
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Shelfishness
Created by: sharktrager
Pronunciation: SHELF-ish-ness
Sentence: I'm only shelfish at Christmas.
Etymology: From shelf hoarder and selfish so and so
Purcacher
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: pur/cache/er
Sentence: Her husband had suspended all debit and credit cards and limited her to a weekly allowance because of her outlandish spending sprees. As a result, she was a cash only buyer. Unfortunately, when that money ran out, she turned into a devious purcacher who hide sale items in various places in the store until her weekly allowance came in.
Etymology: purchaser + cache
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COMMENTS:
Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-26: 18:51:00
Great word! Wish I'd thought of it. - Mustang, 2007-12-26: 22:08:00
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Shopguise
Created by: jeceelpz
Pronunciation:
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COMMENTS:
very nice play on shop, guy, guise ... I like it. - silveryaspen, 2008-01-04: 12:40:00
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