Verboticisms

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

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Created by: thejoshinator

Pronunciation: Master-is-card-ing

Sentence: Jimmy was full of excitement about Christmas and had no care for money saving, so set out masteriscarding like mad.

Etymology: Mastercard+is, which shows the master is the card (master/is/card), which is like being a zombie, controlled by the credit card. 'Is' also makes the master the credit card owner, going crazy and carding (carding is using a credit card master/is/carding).

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: oh holee nite

Sentence: Oweholynight! The stores are brightly shining, It is the night of getting your money's worth, Long lay those cards in purse and pocket pining, Tills reappear and the soul spent its worth. A thrill of hope the retail world rejoices, For yonder breaks your budget by Mastercard. Fall on your knees! Owe, hear the Visa voices! Owenight divine, Owenight when AmEx was reborn; Owenight divine, Owenight, Owenight Divine.

Etymology: Owe (be in debt, owe money for goods bought) & O Holy Night (Christmas Eve, the night of Jesus' birth, the reason we celebrate Christmas; the title of a Carol announcing the birth of the Savior)

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COMMENTS:

I didn't know you were so musical! Nice job! - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:47:00

magic!! love it! - galwaywegian, 2008-12-17: 04:06:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: o o o

Sentence: T'was the day before Christmas and all thru the Mall, no one paid cash, no one at all. The charge cards were melting from the friction of swipe and shoppers all wondered how they'd survive all the hype. Santa was laughing, his cheeks very merry. He told all the shoppers oweoweowe, Christmas debt is scary!

Etymology: Owe (be indebted to;be in debt) & Ho Ho Ho (Santa's trademark laugh;"Ho ho ho" is a rendition of a particular type of deep-throated laugh or chuckle which is of Gaelic (Irish language) derivation)

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Created by: bzav1

Pronunciation: auto - pawn - chus - pilot

Sentence: In a trance, combining panic and Xmas-zuberance, Ned wandered through the mall on autoponchuspilot, grabbing items from shelves with no regard for price, taste or the impact his decisions would have on others.

Etymology: autopilot + Ponchus Pilot

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COMMENTS:

How very gentile! Thumbs up!...or is that down? mmm - scrabbelicious, 2007-12-14: 09:29:00

FYI: Here's how the Bible spells it: "Pontius Pilate." - Maxine, 2007-12-14: 14:25:00

bless you, Maxine - bzav1, 2007-12-14: 14:48:00

lol, i had to laugh, good job, but pontius pilot doesn't really have anything to do with christ's birth, rather death...OH!!! Okay, I get it, yeah, death can surely come by spending too much on autopilot at xmas time. thumbs up buddy... - chaiandallthatjazz, 2007-12-16: 11:52:00

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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: chaiandallthatjazz

Pronunciation: sounds like robot without the t, plus shop

Sentence: Suzie's roboshopping today...I wouldn't say she's a grinch..you don't necessarily have to be a grinch to roboshop, but stay out of her way when she gets home or better yet give her a big glass of eggnog and let her sweeten up a bit.

Etymology: verb derived from robot and shop

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Created by: jajsr

Pronunciation: Pa-trahm-bee

Sentence: Waiting until the last minute to buy her Christmas gifts, Susan joined her fellow patrombies at the mall.

Etymology: Combination of "Patro" from patron - one who buys the goods or uses the services offered especially by an establishment; and "mbie" from zombie - a person held to resemble the so-called walking dead.

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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: Nosila

Pronunciation: o ho ho

Sentence: Twas the day before Christmas and all through the malls, the shopper's were frantic, lugging their hauls. The credit cards were rung by the cashiers with care, in the hopes that their limits could large totals bear. The children were wrestled to await jolly St.Nick, to tell their fond wishes and get a peppermint stick. But we heard him exclaim, as he punched out for his shift, you will owehoho a lot of interest on each last-minute gift!

Etymology: Owe (be in debt to) & Ho Ho Ho (Santa's catch phrase jolly laughter)

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