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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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Holidaze
Created by: Jeeter
Pronunciation: hoh-li-dayse
Sentence: "In my holidaze, I bought everyone an accurate to-scale model of R2D2."
Etymology: holiday + daze
Yesmastercardia
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: yes/master/cardia
Sentence: During the holiday season I suffer from extreme yesmastercardia and let my credit card lead me like a divining rod to every overpriced bargain. I am compelled to buy for I must obey, I must obey
Etymology: yes master + master card
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COMMENTS:
kudos - bzav1, 2007-12-14: 07:40:00
...followed by mastercardial infarction when ya get the bill in January. Good word Jabber. - purpleartichokes, 2007-12-14: 08:58:00
Another great word and week! We all say yes master to you in unison. - Stevenson0, 2007-12-14: 12:41:00
or followed by attackacardia ... if you don't pay on those credit cards! This word with its yes master dominates the day the way that credit cards can dominate a life. Terrific word! - silveryaspen, 2007-12-14: 14:09:00
Bravo: another great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-14: 15:01:00
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Letusowe
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: let us o
Sentence: Oh, the Crowds in the Mall are frightful,but the sales are so delightful. And since we have one week to go, letusowe, letusowe, letusowe. It doesn't show signs of stopping, And I've bought my cards for shopping, My limits are now way down low, letusowe, letusowe, letusowe! When we finally kiss goodnight, How I'll have hated going out in the store! When I get my bill I'll turn white, And hope that I don't lose the farm. The shoppers are slowly dying, And, for credit we're still applying, But as long as you love me so, letusowe, letusowe, letusowe!
Etymology: Play on "Let it Snow"...Christmas Song (apologies to Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne)...owe (to be in debt)
Noelosis
Created by: jmotsch
Pronunciation: no el oh sis
Sentence: Jeb was suffering from a bad case of noelosis of the giver.
Etymology:
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
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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Mesmeryuleized
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
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)
Masteriscarding
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).
Stupenerous
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
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