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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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Shopahoarder
Created by: Korinne
Pronunciation: Shop/a/hoard/er
Sentence: A chronic shopahoarder, Janeane hid the store's last pair of burgandy pumps so she can buy them later.
Etymology: Shop + Hoard (A play on the word Shopaholic)
Surreptistash
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Sur - REP - tuh - stash
Sentence: Beatrice didnt want to risk losing the bargain on the shoes so she decided to carefully surreptistash them behind the stack of shirts for the big and tall guys.
Etymology: Surreptitious (sneaky) + Stash (hide)
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
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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Hideeholdem
Created by: Redrover
Pronunciation: hide+ee+hold+um
Sentence: Darlene could never make up her mind about purchases when she first saw things so she was forever secreting the items where no one would notice she had pulled a hideeholdem.
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COMMENTS:
lol! nice one! - freakystyley, 2007-12-26: 23:45:00
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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
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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Idoolater
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: eye doo lay tor
Sentence: Her idoolatry had become an artform which never failed, apart from that one time, when she secreted the to-die-for lingerie in the the pet gift section at Maaaceys.
Etymology: idolater, do later.
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COMMENTS:
love it - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-26: 11:28:00
Love the sentence and word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-26: 18:52:00
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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
