Verboticisms

Created by: thebaron

Pronunciation: trance-pur-chasing

Sentence: There she was, mulling through the mall trancepurchasing again.

Etymology: trance (zombie like state) Purchase (buy)

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Created by: scrabbelicious

Pronunciation: Splurge-e-ah

Sentence: Alphonso's new credit card was burning a big hole in his pocket. The urge to splurge was making him twitch. The only release from this afflueagony was to let loose and succumb to the fits of splurgia that had become his only source of happiness.

Etymology: Splurge + mania

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COMMENTS:

perfect, sounds like a medical condition - Niktionary, 2007-12-14: 13:34:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: oh oh oh

Sentence: Going into her usual mall trance and buying whatever caught her eye for gifts, Carol's motto was "buy now, pay later, hope there's room left on the card". She was sure the mall Santa had boomed out "oweoweowe" to her as she sleptwalked past him.

Etymology: Owe (be in debt) & Ho Ho Ho (what Santa says...)

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Created by: mrowka

Pronunciation: Swipe-n-sign

Sentence: While shopping for my families presents I turned into Swipensein and charged everything without thinking about it.

Etymology: Swiping and signing, as in paying with a credit card, and Frankenstein, the monster who walks around zombie-esque

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COMMENTS:

Who's better than you? - hyperborean, 2008-12-17: 19:27:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: ew-burr-PLAS-tiss-ee-tee

Sentence: Roxie never put off till tomorrow buying what she could buy today. And she was never so happy than at Christmas time, when her uberplasticity 'maxed out' buying "happiness" for kith and kin.

Etymology: Combination of "UBER" in recent coinages extreme, over the top & beyond the norm + PLASTIC: "the plastic" slang term for a credit card + -ITY: state or condition. *

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Created by: Ismelstar

Pronunciation: [cheer-dik-shuhn]

Sentence: I realized I had a problem after my third hour in the shopping mall. I hadn't eaten, I hadn't slept and I was dressed in the same velour track suit I had worn the day before. My cheerdiction was out of control. I didn't want to leave, I didn't want to stay, and I knew I had a problem, but the cheerdiction kept me going. I could buy one more present, the perfect present, the sparkliest, most flawless, joy inducing present I had ever given.

Etymology: From "cheer" meaning to gladden or cause joy to and "addiction" meaning the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma.

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: zämbīng

Sentence: There’s nothing like celebrating the birth of the Jesus by wondering about the mall acting like the undead — bouncing from store to store zombuying whatever comes within range. Will they come back to painful life when the bills come due? Of corpse!

Etymology: zombie (a soulless corpse said to be revived by witchcraft) + buying (obtain in exchange for payment)

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Created by: Jeeter

Pronunciation: hoh-li-dayse

Sentence: "In my holidaze, I bought everyone an accurate to-scale model of R2D2."

Etymology: holiday + daze

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Created by: gemmgemms

Pronunciation: spen-da-main-ee-um

Sentence: He was locked into a state of spendmanium as he entered the mall.

Etymology: spend + manium

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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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