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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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Stowaware
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: stoh-a-wair
Sentence: Bob was the bane of booksellers, carefully stowawaring much-sought-after or rare editions for later purchase.
Etymology: With "stowaway" in mind, based on STOW: to conceal and WARE: goods for sale.
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COMMENTS:
PS: YES, I am guilty of stowawaring! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-26: 04:22:00
good one! - galwaywegian, 2007-12-26: 07:07:00
Clever! Right on the meaning! - silveryaspen, 2007-12-27: 19:39:00
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Shopblock
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation: shop-block
Sentence: I went shopping and found something fabulous, alas I had no money. I had to shopblock the other customers by hiding it.
Etymology: like cockblock
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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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.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
lol! nice one! - freakystyley, 2007-12-26: 23:45:00
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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
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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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
Shopguise
Created by: jeceelpz
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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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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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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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)
