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DEFINITION: n., 1. A pine needle infestation, common during and after the holiday season. 2. Prickly Christmas guests who will not leave and cannot be cleaned up. v., To fall down during a holiday party and hide under a rug.
Verboticisms
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Pinestilence
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: pine/stil/ence
Sentence: The pinestilence invades our home every Christmas season and takes months to rid the house of this dreaded needle.
Etymology: PINESTILENCE - noun - from PINE + PESTILENCE (a plague, or a pernicious, evil influence, or agent)
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COMMENTS:
great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-12-18: 14:47:00
The carpet no doubt looked like a pine cushion. - Mustang, 2008-12-18: 15:31:00
Pining to be needle/ss. - dochanne, 2008-12-18: 22:11:00
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Pestaclaus
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: PEST-tuh-klawz
Sentence: When Bob hadn't left Christmas celebrations at the home of Roxie's parents by New Year's day, her family decided that it was time to look for ways to kinstirpate this perdurable pestaclaus.
Etymology: PESTACLAUS: blend of pest & Santa Claus. KINSTIRPATE: (kin & extirpate)-not my word: source??
Needlebain
Created by: roger153
Pronunciation: needle / bain
Sentence: Every year we have to put up with this same needlebain all over the house.
Etymology: pine needle mess
Pinecushion
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: pine/kushun
Sentence: I felt like a Christmas pinecushion as I fumbled trying to plug in the lights.
Etymology: pincushion + pine
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COMMENTS:
Love it! - purpleartichokes, 2007-12-17: 18:04:00
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Needlepeedle
Created by: nicky
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Needlepeedle happens all over the house unless you give the Christmas tree a good shake before taking it out to the brush pile
Etymology: needle, pee
Carpettunnelsyndrome
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: car-pet-ton-nul-sin-drum
Sentence: Every December, my living room rug gets carpettunnelsyndrome from the tree needles. The rug rasps eventually get vacuumed up or compost by June.
Etymology: carpal tunnel syndrome, carpet, tunnel
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COMMENTS:
Superb! - Mustang, 2007-12-17: 06:09:00
ouch - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-17: 13:37:00
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Pinedemic
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /piyn-dem-ik/
Sentence: Since the relatives began arriving more than three weeks before the holidays this year, the tree had to be up early. Now the living room is the source of a widespread pinedemic outbreak, which has spread to every other room in the house, further complicated the inguestation of Christmas visitors, tracking needles everywhere. And we can't even vacuum, because Uncle Frank is still down there under the tree, wrapped in his carpet of rugretfulness — and pine needles.
Etymology: pine - traditional Christmas evergreen (Latin, pīnus) + pandemic - a widespread outbreak (from Greek, pándémos "common" - typical of a disease)
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COMMENTS:
good one - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-17: 13:35:00
nice - galwaywegian, 2007-12-17: 15:15:00
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Tannenbomb
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: tah-nern-bom
Sentence: it may have looked nice as they were decorating it, but this christmas tree was a tannenbomb waiting to go off
Etymology: bomb, tannenbaum[as in the song...o christmas tree...but the german version....i'm the only one who learnt the german version aren't i....fine...vote for pinedemic...see if i care]
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COMMENTS:
I used a 'Tannenbaum' word last week and it didn't win me any prizes either, but you got my vote! - MrDave2176, 2007-12-17: 08:50:00
clever - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-17: 13:38:00
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Coniferocious
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: cone iffer oshus
Sentence: Douglas Fir was a mild-mannered sap. His bark was certainly worse than his bite. He ran a Branch Office for his company and struggled to maintain profitability. Out of frustration, he ran for local politics and was elected. He was a coniferocious campaigner. People always used him to get votes and persuade the policymakers, but Doug would have no such influence. He just wanted to be the town Christmas Tree and light up peoples' lives. The only problem he had was that he shed a few thousand needles a day and when Christmas was finally over, he was a stick with lights on him. Needleless to say, his detractors who were larchly the undeciduous voters,would plant false stories about him in the cyPress. Despite what they said, he campaigned for the EverGreen Party. He was a tree Fir the People!
Etymology: conifer ( any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones) & ferocious (marked by extreme and violent energy)
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COMMENTS:
Tree-mendous avalanche of chuckles, N! - metrohumanx, 2008-12-18: 17:39:00
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Barbedlier
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: barbd-lie-uh
Sentence: 'Beware the barbedlier on the sofa', Marge whispered to her husband as she passed him in the doorway. 'Your friend Tom had to stay for a week the last time he was this sozzled'.
Etymology: barbed wire + lier (one who lies down)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram Thank you remistram ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
dimatehtunov - 2018-12-21: 21:54:00
good ivning .