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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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Nebeha

Created by: adbern

Pronunciation: Nebe-ha

Sentence: Girl, I've be thinking your nebeha

Etymology:

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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

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Spendxiety

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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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)

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Compulchase

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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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

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Obcontent

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

Etymology:

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Buypolar

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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