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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.
Verboticisms
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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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Generiousity
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: jen err eye owe you sitee
Sentence: by about 3.00pm on the 20th of december, his generousity became generiousity
Etymology: generousity. IOU
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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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
Splurgia
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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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)
Obligiftion
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: ob lih GIF shun
Sentence: I love that feeling of obligiftion that holidays and birthdays engender. (Not.) There's nothing like spending money on someone you don't really like so that he/she doesn't talk negatively about you to other friends or relatives. It is a joy that is only exceeded by the thoughtful, useful, and attractive (not) gift that said person in turn gives you through his/her own sense of duty and obligiftion, and then expects to see displayed in your house when he/she visits.
Etymology: obligation + gift
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COMMENTS:
obligreatword! - Nosila, 2009-12-19: 01:53:00
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Ghoulcarding
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: gool/card/ing
Sentence: On Christmas Eve the malls are filled with people ghoulcarding, buying anything and everything in sight and willing to kill and eat flesh for it.
Etymology: GHOULCARDING from - GOLD CARD (a credit card with a high credit rating and with the privilege of being eaten alive by the interest rates) + GHOUL (an evil spirit, or demon in folklore believed to plunder malls and feed on Christmas shoppers)
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.
Santasmerized
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: san-TAZ-mer-izd
Sentence: Once again the Christmas spirit had Leon absolutely Santasmerized, feeling the need to please everyone with lavish gifts, he seemed to be in a stupor and he was putting thousands of dollars he could ill afford on his credit card.
Etymology: Blend of 'Santa' and 'mesmerized' (Spellbound or enthralled. Hypnotized)
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