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DEFINITION: n., The wondrous, and the "wonder how I'm going to pay for it" feelings of the holiday shopping season. v., To stumble through a shopping mall like a zombie on a buying binge, grabbing anything and everything that will fit on your credit card.
Verboticisms
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Yesmastercardia
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: yes/master/cardia
Sentence: During the holiday season I suffer from extreme yesmastercardia and let my credit card lead me like a divining rod to every overpriced bargain. I am compelled to buy for I must obey, I must obey
Etymology: yes master + master card
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COMMENTS:
kudos - bzav1, 2007-12-14: 07:40:00
...followed by mastercardial infarction when ya get the bill in January. Good word Jabber. - purpleartichokes, 2007-12-14: 08:58:00
Another great word and week! We all say yes master to you in unison. - Stevenson0, 2007-12-14: 12:41:00
or followed by attackacardia ... if you don't pay on those credit cards! This word with its yes master dominates the day the way that credit cards can dominate a life. Terrific word! - silveryaspen, 2007-12-14: 14:09:00
Bravo: another great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-14: 15:01:00
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Chribinger
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: Chribinger: Kri-binj-her
Sentence: There were so many Chribingers in the mall, that Master Card chuckled in glee!
Etymology: Chri for Christmas and cringe ... and binge ... for shopping binge ... er for her
Clausquander
Created by: Lingoism
Pronunciation: Clau-skwon-der
Sentence: Jenny had to go to rehab after the Christmas holidays to cure herself from the Clausquander syndrome after effects.
Etymology: Claus - Santa Claus Squander - to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully
Stupenerous
Created by: Niktionary
Pronunciation: stoo-pen-r-us
Sentence: Once Max had taken a second loan on the house to send his daughter to Cancun for her Sweet Sixteen with her 19 year old boyfriend, he realized he may have been overly stupenerous
Etymology: Stupid+ generous+ spend
Storpor
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: store-per
Sentence: A state of deep storpor had been induced among the shoppers. They were defeated. The cheery elves and the bawling infants, the fluorescent lights and grotesque displays, the relentless rasping tannoy urging them to 'buy before it's gone', had triumphed. The shoppers dully storpored out their pin codes, vainly attempting to salvage some vestige of self-purpose.
Etymology: store + torpor (a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility)
Mesmeryuleized
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Mez - mer - yool - eyezed
Sentence: Delbert and Glenda had become completely mesmeryuleized in their need to try to please so many people.
Etymology: Mesmerized + yule
Lurchase
Created by: dochanne
Pronunciation: Lur-chis
Sentence: Deanne stumbled through the endless maze of brightly decorated, tinsellated, festoonyoulated and carol-playing shops, stupefied and buying random objects that caught her attention. She zomgrabitated to items of medium size and moderate cost, vaguely recalling her credit limit and dragging her stumbleboon behind her. With glazed unblinking eyes she spotted a shiny articulating hand-held kitchen whizzywidget and immediately zomplasticated it, adding her latest lurchase to her already stuponderous load.
Etymology: Lurch - brrrraaaiiinnnnsssss!!! Purchase - acquire through the dangerous use of plastic when the brain is in a zombastic state.
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COMMENTS:
I want one, too. - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 12:14:00
nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-12-17: 13:25:00
You're on a roll! - hyperborean, 2008-12-17: 19:20:00
Very, scary realistic story! - Nosila, 2008-12-17: 21:44:00
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Letusowe
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: let us o
Sentence: Oh, the Crowds in the Mall are frightful,but the sales are so delightful. And since we have one week to go, letusowe, letusowe, letusowe. It doesn't show signs of stopping, And I've bought my cards for shopping, My limits are now way down low, letusowe, letusowe, letusowe! When we finally kiss goodnight, How I'll have hated going out in the store! When I get my bill I'll turn white, And hope that I don't lose the farm. The shoppers are slowly dying, And, for credit we're still applying, But as long as you love me so, letusowe, letusowe, letusowe!
Etymology: Play on "Let it Snow"...Christmas Song (apologies to Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne)...owe (to be in debt)
Masflu
Created by: spickaspanner
Pronunciation: Mus-floo
Sentence: I have to buy 100000000 presents for Christmas at teh last minute. Ahh i think i'm getting Masflu!
Etymology:
Ghoulcarding
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: gool/card/ing
Sentence: On Christmas Eve the the malls are filled with people ghoulcarding, buying anything and everything in sight and willing to kill for it.
Etymology: ghoul (a possessed evil spirit, or demon) + gold card
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COMMENTS:
ghoulopogos word - Nosila, 2009-12-19: 01:54:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen Thank you silveryaspen ~ James
silveryaspen - 2007-12-14: 14:44:00
Liked all the words!
Thank you silveryaspen for the great idea ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-12-17: 19:12:00
Into the valley of malls, went the $5 hundreds ... It was the light of the charge brigade!
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James