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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.
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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
Oweoweowe
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)
Swipensein
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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Trancspend
Created by: nicky
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I go to the mall around Christmas and trancspend till my wife calls and says its time to come home.
Etymology: trance, spend
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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Spenderlust
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: spɛndərləst
Sentence: In a bad case of spenderlust Brian bounced from one store to another at the mall buying most everything that caught his eye until his card was declined. Looks like its gonna be a ramen January.
Etymology: spender (somebody who pays out money in buying or hiring goods or services) wanderlust (a strong desire to travel)
Grabbling
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
Owehoho
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)
Patrombie
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.
Mesmeryuleogy
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)
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