Verboticisms

Created by: chofu67

Pronunciation: spen da si ty

Sentence: He walked into Costco not knowing what he wanted, but only feeling the spendacity that he would find something to take the edge off the day.

Etymology: spend + mendacity (false); spending in the false hope that it will address the source of anxiety

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: shop - ee - ness

Sentence: Marilous purchased 52 pairs of shoes last Sunday just for her shoppiness. She was feeling blue and all the colors and styles perked up her mood.

Etymology: shop, happiness

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COMMENTS:

It's her shopstitutional right to be happy! - Nosila, 2009-08-18: 12:16:00

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Created by: sabbychankicksass

Pronunciation: stress-spree-syndrome

Sentence: Whenever Sissy gets starts to feel a spiraling panic attack coming on, she immediately rushes to the mall to alleviate her unfortunate case of stress-spree-syndrome where she will then continue on to buy the most adorable but useless accessories for her dogs at Dolce and Gabbana.

Etymology: shopping spree caused by stress syndrome

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Created by: chris

Pronunciation: therra-pay

Sentence: Fiona's credit card showed all too clearly the full extent of her therapaying

Etymology: therapy + pay

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: splur-chuss

Sentence: After being dumped by Bob, though she could not afford it, Sue went out and made yet another splurchase of a Louis Vuitton handbag in an attempt to fill the void.

Etymology: splurge, purchase

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Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: kash-kwench-er

Sentence: In her emotional state Rachel bought those heels as a total cashquencher.

Etymology: cash + quench

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Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: bobble/binj/ing

Sentence: Guinevere admitted to herself that baublebinging was the only way out of her funk, particularly after a less than satisfactory season as "Queen of the Queasiness".

Etymology: bauble + binging

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Created by: shaibear

Pronunciation: Ob (From object) And content (R from happyness)

Sentence: My books have replaced people in my life, and make me feel Obcontent

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Created by: ToblerOne

Pronunciation: Im-pen-di-ture

Sentence: Joan's impenditure at the mall left her bank statement dissapointing.

Etymology: Impulse + Expenditure

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Created by: sleep

Pronunciation: spend-er-bay-shun

Sentence: After a horrific day at work, she went to the mall to spenderbate.

Etymology: spend + well, you know.

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: VEE-sah-binge

Sentence: After Chad broke up with her, Tracey went Visabinging to the tune of $2800.

Etymology: Visa (credit card) + binge

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Created by: Guthlaf1

Pronunciation: KRED-ther-A-pee

Sentence: Rebecca couldn't resist another session of credtherapy after her appalling job interview.

Etymology: "cred" - from credit + therapy

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My wife has this condition! - Guthlaf1, 2007-01-15: 14:50:00

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Created by: egonschiela

Pronunciation: s-dress-sense

Sentence: Following the horrendous argument with Hugh, Helen's sdressense had prevailed; the three carrier bags of clothes had been well and truly integrated into the wardrobe, and the receipts shredded .... and now for the gin and tonic before he got home ...

Etymology: stress (or s+dress) - sense

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: re-tail-lax-a-tion

Sentence: Football Sunday was the best time for Joni to head to the mall for retailaxation, a.k.a. shop therapy. "When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping," she said as she grabbed her keys and purse.

Etymology: retail + relaxation

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Sale-a-brate those Sundays! - Nosila, 2009-08-18: 11:26:00

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Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: shop-sti-nens

Sentence: After a long day at work, her shopstinence kicked in, and she spent all the rent-money on shoes and underwear.

Etymology: shopping + abstinence

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Created by: greengoddess

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Created by: spickaspanner

Pronunciation: bau-bore-bon-ling

Sentence: If you ask me for another pair of shoes i will start baubourbonling.

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: spend - zie - ety

Sentence: Jill's spendxiety caused her credit card bills to go high when she was depressed.

Etymology: spend + anxiety

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Created by: verndo

Pronunciation: Th err ah by

Sentence: Wendy is finding help in therabuy. Her pain is real, and her new wardrobe is too.

Etymology: Therapy + Buy

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Created by: TrJoshB

Pronunciation: sh-awl-lump

Sentence: After the fight with her best friend over that blond boy, Hillary shollumped her credit cards to the max.

Etymology: shop + calm + Whim + relieve

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Created by: mickey666

Pronunciation: trink-et-for-treat

Sentence: She stroked the vase with affection and immediately felt better. In spite of the lavish expense, this was genuine trinketfortreat

Etymology: a trinket for a treat

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Created by: adbern

Pronunciation: Nebe-ha

Sentence: Girl, I've be thinking your nebeha

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Created by: Javeson1

Pronunciation: theh-rah-shop-pee

Sentence: Just get dumped? Worried about finals? Need a solution? THERASHOPY

Etymology: therapy + shopping = FABULOUS!!

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: SPEND-ih-sin

Sentence: I feel awful, let's hit the Sharper Image for some spendicine.

Etymology: Spend + Medicine

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: bye/pohl/ar

Sentence: Her buypolar personality was responsible for her extravagant spending habits.

Etymology: buy + bi-polar

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Perfect! - wordmeister, 2007-01-15: 20:40:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: by pol ar

Sentence: Wendy had trouble right after Christmas in not shopping. Although half-price or less, her non-essential purchases were of a buypolar nature and as a result, Wendy always completed next year's Christmas shopping by January 5th of that year. Of course finding the items or remembering who they were for was the next big challenge.

Etymology: Buy (purchase,acquire) & bipolar (of or relating to manic depressive illness)

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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

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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)

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Created by: Madamemojo

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Created by: bghicks

Pronunciation: mall anxiety

Sentence: The stress of her job cost her a fortune at the local stroll and spend as she attempted to combat her stress with mallanxiety

Etymology: mall - shopping mecca anxiety

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: angs-buy-ity

Sentence: Jills gets one of her anxbuyety attacks, grabs her car keys,and credit cards, and races to the mall.

Etymology: anxiety/buy

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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.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: dis dress

Sentence: When Sheila was feeling low, she always felt a little retail therapy went a long way. She found articles of clothing the most soothing to lift her mood. Her latest disdress was a simple little black cocktail number, in case her life improved and she ever might get invited out somewhere...she'd be ready.

Etymology: Distress (psychological suffering) & Dress (a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice;clothing in general)

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: dis-PURSE-al

Sentence: Lenny dispersed all his life-savings with his chronic dyspursal, a downward spiral to bankruptcy

Etymology: dys (from dysfunctional) + purse (container for holding money) + dispersal (spreading widely)

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: spree-lax-ay-shun

Sentence: after a hard week at work, the only way to unwind was with some shopping spreelaxation

Etymology: relaxation, [shopping]spree

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Created by: ubgrud

Pronunciation: Th err ah by

Sentence: Wendy is finding help in therabuy. Her pain is real, and her new wardrobe is too.

Etymology: Therapy + Buy

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Created by: Carla

Pronunciation: an-ess-det-ic

Sentence: Clare always shopped frenziedly after a coffee morning with 'the girls'. How they earned six figures, raised children, coordinated charitable fund-raisers, (and their outfits) without ever passing through puberty puzzled Clare. Could the hollow emptiness of her inadequacy be filled with shoes? Luckily, the anaesdebtic would soon kick in.

Etymology: anaesthetic + debt

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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)

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: splurge a holl ick

Sentence: Mary was a splurgeaholic, and completely unable to leave a bag shop without at least 3 bags, which did not include the free plastic carrier to take them all home in.

Etymology: from splurging money and a-holic like an addict.

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Created by: clasjaz

Pronunciation: a[ng]-wiskwander

Sentence: Lack of self-esteem caused Ted to anguisquander when he bought a lamborgini.

Etymology: anguish, squander

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: bīpōlər

Sentence: Jane has been diagnosed as buypolar. Despite her status as a buyathlete and her formidable buyceps and the elation of a new purchase, she also experiences depression caused by the buymonthly invoice from her credit card company.

Etymology: buy (obtain in exchange for payment) + bipolar (a mental disorder marked by alternating periods of elation and depression)

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Created by: tgulden

Pronunciation: spen-DEE-vee-8

Sentence: I bought this wicked pair of shoes to spendeviate my stress about my husband's affair.

Etymology: Spend - Alleviate

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /c&m-'pul-ch&s/

Sentence: He used to smoke to relieve the stress at work, then he overate to relieve the stress of quitting smoking, and now he compulchases to relieve the stress of the diet he's on.

Etymology: From compulsive + purchase

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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

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Created by: loosepiece

Pronunciation: cred - it - SPA

Sentence: after a long day at work, Angela felt she deserved a little creditspa, and so bought 5 pairs of shoes (2 for work, 1 for Sarahs party on Saturday, and 2 because they wer ereduced and an absolute bargain), 3 black shirts ( 1 short sleeved, 1 long sleeved and one that was a size too small but she'd diet into it), 2 red blouses (1 for work, to go with those fabulous trousers she'd bought last week, 1 to wear at her mothers for lunch on Sunday), 4 pairs trousers (ok they were all black, and all bootcut, but trousers are invaluable), 3 pairs jeans (one bootcut, one skinny to wear with boots, and one because they were on sale), 2 pairs of boots (1 brown, 1 black) 3 bags (1 for work, one for clubbing and one for holidays)and 6 bras (la senza had a sale on and it's been ages since she had a new bra - last month at least)

Etymology: credit card - what you use to buy something spa - what you need to relax after spending a years salary in one shopping trip!

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This got my vote just because of the sentence. - erasmus, 2007-01-15: 09:05:00

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Created by: maxxy

Pronunciation: PURSS-kewr

Sentence: Bummed out by her third broken engagement, Sonia pursecured her blues with six HErmes scarves and a large mochaccino.

Etymology: purse + cure

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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.

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Created by: whimsy

Pronunciation: spen-dyoor

Sentence: After she got fired, she spendured the rest of the afternoon buying a number of hats she would later not want to wear.

Etymology: spend + endure

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