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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.
Verboticisms
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Anxibingety
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: ang-zi-binj-E-tee
Sentence: Roxy used shopping as a quick fix for the blues. Each spurgisode was squandipitious:whenever she saw for sale something stromboid, she had to buy it to slake her anxibingety. Also her squandapathy, whilst at times an all consuming passion, became afterwards a pangfull prodigall, with terrifying squandread.
Etymology: Anxibingety:(anxiety+binge)"anxiety for binge-buying). Prodigall(prodigal+gall)"vexed by waste." Squandapathy:"indifferent to waste."
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
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
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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Buypolar
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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COMMENTS:
Buyagra may help. - purpleartichokes, 2007-08-20: 11:33:00
This is an awesome word! Me thinks I suffer from this disorder. - buggy96, 2007-08-20: 22:04:00
How much can a buypolar bear? Good word - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-20: 23:24:00
A little word recycling I see. - petaj, 2007-08-21: 05:12:00
best word in ages! - galwaywegian, 2007-08-21: 05:38:00
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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?
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:
Shopery
Created by: leeannhamers
Pronunciation: sh-op-or-ee
Sentence: i had a hard day at work i need some shopery.
Etymology: shop/therapy
Depressplurge
Created by: sparkles510
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Renee will depressplurge after every bad relationship.
Etymology: