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DEFINITION: To purchase a bauble, article of clothing, or major appliance, in order to alleviate anxiety or other psychological stress. Often leads to overspending.
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Storegasm
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: stoor gasem
Sentence: just becouse she needed regular storgasms didn't make her a hermesexual
Etymology: store orgasm.
Resplurgerate
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: re-splurj-er-ate
Sentence: Renae had an oversupply of Eskies (cooler boxes) in her garage, but in her search for the ultimate chill pill, she had just purchased a bar fridge and was eyeing off a side-by-side refrigerator/freezer. Not only was her credit card maxed out, but she was in danger of missing payments on her electricity account. Maybe there's a sweet little retro Kelvinator that will take the edge of the debt stress if she resplurgerated one more time.
Etymology: Refrigerator (a major appliance with a nice chill factor) + splurge (retail binge)
Visalium
Created by: administraitor
Pronunciation: Vee-sal-ium
Sentence: An afternoon of visalium would dampen Josie’s worries, especially if she stumbled upon a shoe sale, but she experienced a boomerang mood swing when the bills arrived.
Etymology: Visa + valium
Byoncreditfixation
Created by: realnutty01
Pronunciation: Bi-on-cred-it-fix-a-shon
Sentence: He got his divorce on the grounds she had byoncreditfixation and he had no money left.
Etymology:
Shopdeangst
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: shop-dee-ahngkst
Sentence: The shopping network has profited by taking advantage of the many shopdeangsters worldwide.
Etymology: shop + de + angst
Federlinity
Created by: mythman
Pronunciation: feh-durr-LIHN-ih-tee
Sentence: Britney didn't have new shoes, and was hoping for a man with some Federlinity to solve that problem.
Etymology: How else would a backup-dancer earn the love of such a diva?
Neurowidgetize
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Noo-roh-WIDGE-uh-tize
Sentence: Cynthia liked most of her earrings, but none of them seemed to say "look at me, I'm the newest assistant marketing manager for Macy's catalog sales," so she simply drove down to COSTCO and neurowidgetized a pair that did.
Etymology: Neuro (psychology prefix) + widget (gadget or insignificant sundry item) + ize (suffix that turns nouns into verbs)
Psychoverspendilleviation
Created by: Uccxxxv
Pronunciation: Psycho-over-spend-ill-evy-ahe-shun
Sentence: "I'll give you some pills for your psychoverspendilleviation, but if all else fails i'll have to take your wallet.
Etymology: Psychological + Over + Spend + alleviation
Therapurchase
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: THEHR-uh-per-chuhs
Sentence: A joint chequing account proved disastrous for Alex, as his girlfriend therapurchased her way through the relationship, and on to the breakup.
Etymology: therapy + purchase
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COMMENTS:
I'll buy that one - galwaywegian, 2007-08-21: 05:37:00
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