Verboticisms

Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /spen-di-men-shuh/

Sentence: Jamie, like many last-minute holiday shoppers, suffered from an attack of spendementia at the mall and ended up walking around in a daze, making purchases without really thinking about them, like some sort of Visautomaton, until the credit cards were all maxed out.

Etymology: spend (from Latin, expendere "pay out") + dementia (from Latin, démentāre "to deprive of [one's] mind")

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we all have to be a little demented to spend the way we do at Christmas! Good word. - silveryaspen, 2007-12-14: 14:29:00

Reminds me -I must start shopping! Another fine word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-14: 15:03:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: inn add veez ab ill

Sentence: It was inadvisabill to try to do all one's christmas shopping in Cartier, after the child could choke on those rocks, but that the heck, it was christmas

Etymology: inadvisable, visa bill

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COMMENTS:

My excuse would be that the Visa-bility was obscured by the glare. great word - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-14: 10:50:00

very clever incorporation of Visa! - silveryaspen, 2007-12-14: 14:19:00

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Created by: andrian

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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

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: mez-mer-YULE-oh-gee

Sentence: With their brains completely befuddled by the frantic shopping spree Brad and Linda offered one another sincere mesmeryuleogy at all the great buys they were making, not realizing they had maxed out 4 credit cards and were working on a fifth with purchases of what was likely to find it's way to the recesses of closets of their friends.

Etymology: Blend of mesmerized (spellbound), Yule (Christmas, or the Christmas season) and Eulogize (to praise highly)

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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: Tamra

Pronunciation: Pee ADD-ly

Sentence: When I locked my keys in my car I was stranded and with no restrooms nearby I had a sudden feeling of peeadly.

Etymology: the sudden feeling of the need to urinate. The feeling one gets when they feel they can no longer 'hold it'

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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: Nosila

Pronunciation: pres ent ten shun

Sentence: You know the feeling of presentension in the store, when you cross your fingers at the till in the hopes that your purchase of gifts won't be declined by your credit card company. It is followed by the relief of the sale actually going through. (Hopefully)

Etymology: presents & tension

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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 + gold card

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