Verboticisms

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: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: Buy her patch

Sentence: The Christmas charge is a spree-ing-loaded time that puts us all through a buyerpatch.

Etymology: BUYER, PATCH, BRIER PATCH. BUYER - any shopper is one. PATCH - a small area of time before Christmas. BRIER PATCH - a patch of thorny wild trailing roses, a deceptive place in that the lovely flowers have thorns that will rip you to shreds as you go get them ... kind of like lovely presents that rip your wallet to shreds as you go get them.

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COMMENTS:

OOOh. Good one. Spend we must, however. :) - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:46:00

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: shop-noh-sis

Sentence: Stumbling through the mall in a state of shopnosis, she was glad she brought her pillow and blanket so she could have a nice sleep on one of the comfy leather couches.

Etymology: shop + hypnosis

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COMMENTS:

I like it! Deck the malls with spending folly, fa-la-la-la-lah la-la-la-lah... - Tigger, 2007-12-16: 16:33:00

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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: 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: bananabender

Pronunciation: grab-bling

Sentence: When Marla opened her present to find a Santa-shaped lava lamp complete with flashing stars, she knew that Wendy had been grabbling again.

Etymology: grab + bling

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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: jmotsch

Pronunciation: no el oh sis

Sentence: Jeb was suffering from a bad case of noelosis of the giver.

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: hälidāz

Sentence: From Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve Julie is in a holidaze, buying more than she can comfortably afford for family and friends. She wanders the mall chanting the mantra of the **don*t want to offend** crowd, **Happy Holidays**, daring not utter the word Christmas. By Christmas Day she is as surprised as the recipients with what she has bought. The trance is finally broken in January when the OMG bills arrive.

Etymology: holiday (a day of festivity or recreation when no work is done) + daze (make someone unable to think or react properly; stupefy; bewilder)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: zom-bahy

Sentence: Marsha stumbled from one store at the mall to another zombuying presents for all her family members knowing full well that she would be eating Ramen noodles for her dinners, at least, until March.

Etymology: zombie (the body of a dead person given the semblance of life, but mute and will-less, by a supernatural force, usually for some evil purpose) + buy (purchase)

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