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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COMMENTS:

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: 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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Created by: mygirlboo

Pronunciation: Buy-emic

Sentence: Did you hear about Kathy? She became buyemic during the holidays.

Etymology: Buy + Bulimic

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Mez - mer - yool - eyezed

Sentence: Delbert and Glenda had become completely mesmeryuleized in their need to try to please so many people.

Etymology: Mesmerized + yule

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Created by: gemmgemms

Pronunciation: spen-da-main-ee-um

Sentence: He was locked into a state of spendmanium as he entered the mall.

Etymology: spend + manium

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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: 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: 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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Created by: Maxine

Pronunciation: splur 'jee zus

Sentence: In one day, Peter splurjesused $1500 on gifts. And why wouldn't he? As a Christian, it's his duty to spend as much as possible during the holiday season.

Etymology: A portmanteau of 'splurge' and 'Jesus'; the connotation of frightening abnormality from 'bejesus'

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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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