Verboticisms

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)

| Comments and Points

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

| Comments and Points

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

----------------------------
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

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: sharktrager

Pronunciation: SHELF-ish-ness

Sentence: I'm only shelfish at Christmas.

Etymology: From shelf hoarder and selfish so and so

| Comments and Points

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.

----------------------------
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

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

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:

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

lol! nice one! - freakystyley, 2007-12-26: 23:45:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

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

----------------------------
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

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

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.

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

love it - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-26: 11:28:00

Love the sentence and word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-26: 18:52:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

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)

| Comments and Points

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

| Comments and Points