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DEFINITION: v. To purchase a bauble, article of clothing, or major appliance, in order to alleviate anxiety or other psychological stress. Often leads to overspending. n. An item which has been purchased to fill an emotional void.
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Buyalogic
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: bye a loj ick
Sentence: When Tracy needed a morale boost, she went shopping. Any bargain she got was deemed buyalogic, as she could justify her need for the item. She needed these boosts quite often and ended up with closetfuls of clothes, shoes and accessories which had cheered her up at one time or another. Every 6 months, the Good Will people got bags of barely worn clothes from Tracy to fill the buyalogic needs of their clients. She believed in paying it forward...
Etymology: Buy (Purchase; obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction) & Logic (Thought process;reasoned judgment) and play on Biologic ( pertaining to biology or to life and living things)
Therapay
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: therra-pay
Sentence: Fiona's credit card showed all too clearly the full extent of her therapaying
Etymology: therapy + pay
Impenditure
Created by: ToblerOne
Pronunciation: Im-pen-di-ture
Sentence: Joan's impenditure at the mall left her bank statement dissapointing.
Etymology: Impulse + Expenditure
Therashopy
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: theh-rah-shop-pee
Sentence: Just get dumped? Worried about finals? Need a solution? THERASHOPY
Etymology: therapy + shopping = FABULOUS!!
Consumania
Created by: StephLeeY
Pronunciation: consum(e)mania
Sentence: Her overwhelming week caused her to relieve stress in the only way she knows how... by shopping consumaniaically at the mall.
Etymology:
Buysexual
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bahy-sek-shoo-uhl
Sentence: With a husband who was older than dirt and more money than was reasonable for any human, the gold digger became a buysexual. Shopping became a power trip that really got her juices flowing.
Etymology: buy (purchase) sexual (carnal)
Spreewell
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: spree-well
Sentence: Sick of being underappreciated at work and home, Marcia went spreewelling at the mall.
Etymology: shopping spree + wellness + coincidental similarity to NBA player Latrell
Spendicine
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: SPEND-ih-sin
Sentence: I feel awful, let's hit the Sharper Image for some spendicine.
Etymology: Spend + Medicine
Therapurchise
Created by: Maureen
Pronunciation: therra-pur-ch-ise
Sentence: Kelly felt down in the dumps today so she decided to go out therapurchising in the shoe shop to lift her spirits.
Etymology: thera - therapy. Purch- purchase - ise- suffix indicating function.
Purseverance
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: per/seh/veer/ance
Sentence: Purseverance was the only remedy for her stressful existence. It calmed her to grab handfuls of cash and throw it at luxury items
Etymology: purse + perseverance
