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DEFINITION: v. What boyfriends and husbands do while they are waiting their girlfriends and/or wives to shop. n. A person doing such a thing.
Verboticisms
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Boycaught
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: boy kot
Sentence: When she took her boyfriend shopping, which he hated, he hung around outside the building as a boycaught. He really should have gone into the store, as she was getting final fitting for her wedding dress...
Etymology: Boy (Man or young male) & Caught (the act of catching something)...wordplay on boycott (to ignore;a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies)
Mallancholy
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: mahl-uhn-kuhl-eee
Sentence: Dave went mallancholy as he stood holding Debra's handbag at the Emasculation Station outlet store.
Etymology: mall + melancholy
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-26: 11:50:00
Seems as if Dave got himself into a eunuch predickament. Might decide to keep the handbag! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-26: 22:19:00
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Mallschlump
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: mawl-shlump
Sentence: While most men might get fidgety when their wives browse thru the stores, Marty takes great delight in an opportunity to just mallschlump, wherein he'll cruise around from business to business checking out babes, window displays and oddball people.
Etymology: blend of words 'mall' (n. large retail complex containing a variety of stores and often restaurants ) and 'schlump' (v. to loaf or idle)
Clothesualty
Created by: BSqueeze4
Pronunciation: Clothes-soo-all-tee
Sentence: After seeing the man sitting outside the dressing room with eight shirts in his hands, I knew he was a total clothesualty.
Etymology: Clothes+casualty
Anticapprasion
Created by: SethelMerman
Pronunciation: An-tiss-uh-pray-shun
Sentence: Thinking of his credit card bill and the countless bags from Macy's, passed the time during his anticappraision.
Etymology: From (anticipation: in waiting) + (appraise: judge value)
Manopause
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: man - oh - pause
Sentence: Fred was going through manopause today. He started to sweat, have hot flashes and get overemotional as he waited in the sun for 3 hours while Margaret tried on dresses.
Etymology: menopause (a change of life time period where women have many intersting symptoms) + man (a different kind of manopause)..... + pause (to stop or wait)
Spreeander
Created by: ScrabbledEgg
Pronunciation: spree-an-durr
Sentence: Spreeandering about the mall for hours while Sandy tried on countless pairs of jeans left Jack barely coherent, and hungry. When he saw his honey finally emerge from her umpteenth dressing room, he grunted something about "done yet" and "food court" - much to her annoyance. "Geez, Jack, don't be such a Spreeanderthal" she retailiated (retail + retaliate), handing him the most expensive pair she had found.
Etymology: (shopping) spree + meander
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COMMENTS:
Is that when he went off in perch haste? - petaj, 2007-09-26: 04:47:00
At the end of a shopping spree a woman is tired as well as spent. Nice blend. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-26: 18:47:00
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Shoperone
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: shop/er/one
Sentence: Eugene was so disappointed in himself. He should have known it was too good to be true. When Tiffany said, "Pick me up at 6:00 big boy, and we'll paint the town" he had no idea she just needed a ride to the mall, and a shoperone to carry her bags. You could almost see the neon sign blinking "Fool" on his forehead.
Etymology: derived from chaperone: One who accompanies and supervises
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COMMENTS:
I have seen the glare of that neon sign all too often- reflected in a shoppe window. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-27: 00:51:00
great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-27: 16:06:00
very good. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-28: 00:56:00
Love it! - Nosila, 2008-08-28: 01:35:00
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Wasterbate
Created by: frenchprof
Pronunciation: as it sounds
Sentence: Charlie wasterbated aimlessly once again as Sandra was trying on her pink platforms.
Etymology: waste-akin to waiting and middle English bate to take away; subtract.
Holostasis
Created by: doceanjo
Pronunciation: Hó + los +istasis
Sentence: This is a holographic homeostasis biological concept it means holographic equilibrium.
Etymology: Holos + stasis
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COMMENTS:
Holostasis is a great word. You should expound on it. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-28: 03:06:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James
Can't you be arrested for MASTERWAITING in public?
galwaywegian - 2008-08-27: 05:56:00
Or masterbaiting at college
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James