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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.
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Pinefestation
Created by: TTwoo
Pronunciation: pah-ain-fes-tay-shun
Sentence: Where's the vaccuum? We got a serious pinefestation in the living room.
Etymology: Pine (as in pine tree) and infestation (as in to be overrun with something in large quantities, usually with harmful effects.)
Efirafter
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ef ir af ter
Sentence: Once upon a time there was a prince and princess who made the mistake of getting a real tree on their first Christmas together. One of the things that keeps them together still is finding and vacuuming tree needles,all year long, happily efirafter.
Etymology: Everafter (from now on, to eternity) & Fir (any of various evergreen trees)
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: pine + pestilence (a pernicious, evil influence, or agent)
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COMMENTS:
don't pine about it! - Nosila, 2009-12-22: 01:13:00
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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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Pinedemic
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: pine/dem/ic
Sentence: The onset of a brutally cold winter sent the thermostats soaring thereby causing extremely dry indoor conditions which ultimately led to a pinedemic of catastrophic proportions.
Etymology: pandemic + pine
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COMMENTS:
Lots of pinedemonium, no doubt. - Mustang, 2008-12-18: 15:28:00
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Needelinquents
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: nēdiˈli ng kwənts
Sentence: Joyce didn*t realize when she invited a young tree into her home for the holidays that she was also inviting in needelinquents. These little hooligans had no respect for their elders and made every effort to separate themselves from the bough. They would lodge themselves in the fiber of the carpet and stab passersby with their tiny daggers at every opportunity. Even Hoover, the meanest thug Joyce knew had trouble dislodging these troublemakers. Just when she thought they were gone, she*d find more.
Etymology: needle (the adult leaves of a conifer) + delinquent (typically of a young person or that person*s behavior showing or characterized by a tendency to commit crime, particularly minor crime)
Permaneedle
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: pur-muh-need-l
Sentence: She couldn't decide which was worse, the permaneedles that she found stuck in her slippers in June or the obnoxious neighbours that always overstayed their welcome.
Etymology: permanent + needle (as in coniferous tree needles) and (to heckle or tease)
Holidazed
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: holly dazed
Sentence: Like a good shepard, we watered the flock on our tree. Yet, flocks of needles fell to the floor. Prickly pairs of party animals, all spruced up, rollicked fir hours, drooping into the pine droppings. They eventually decked the halls, wherever they fell, not even aroused by herds of belles. All (people and trees) were thoroughly holidazed.
Etymology: Holidays, Dazed
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COMMENTS:
Clever - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-18: 04:11:00
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Infirtration
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: in fur TRAY shun
Sentence: The infirtration usually starts in mid-December, right after we put up the tree, when we really start to feel them underfoot. By Christmas Eve, they have become really insistent and prickly, and by the day after Christmas, we are ready to throw the whole mess out and just call it a season. But it seems that when cleanup time comes, we don't have many of them around needling us. New Year's Eve seems to bring some of the infirtrators back out of the woodwork, but a little eggnog (spiked) helps numb a lot of the irritation. What's that you say? No, no, not the bits from the tree; it's artificial - I'm talking about the pesky and kvetching relatives!
Etymology: infiltration + fir
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COMMENTS:
firtatious word! - Nosila, 2009-12-22: 01:12:00
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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 .