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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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Stupemaxifaction
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: STOOP-ih-max-ih-faction
Sentence: Ebinezer flung back the musty curtains and threw open the frosty windows which looked down upon the busy village street below. Pure snow slightly muffled the sound of silver sleighbells and cash registers, but gladdened the heart of the old ex-skinflint deep within him. Barely pausing for his boots and top hat, Ebinezer could not wait to immerse himself in this STUPEMAXIFACTION which seemed to fill everyone with the profound joy of giving which had eluded him for so long. Now if only that 48 inch plasma HDTV was still in the shop window.....Ho Ho HO !
Etymology: STUPEfy+MAXImize+satisFACTION= STUPEMAXIFACTION.....STUPEFY:to make stupid, groggy, or insensible,the state of being stupefied by intoxicants or pervasive jolliness; Middle English stupifien, modification of Latin stupefacere, from stupēre to be astonished + facere to make, do .....MAXIMIZE:the greatest quantity or value attainable or spent, an upper limit allowed (as by a legal authority or one's credit rating); Latin, neuter of maximus biggest.....SATISFACTION:the payment through penance of the temporal punishment incurred by a sin or excessive credit abuse, fulfillment of a need or want,no matter how costly,the quality or state of being satisfied, no matter how briefly; Sixties English,Can't get no,Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin satisfaction-, satisfactio, from Latin, reparation, amends, from satisfacere to satisfy.Hey Hey Hey.
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COMMENTS:
Is it Christmas yet?
http://isitchristmas.com/ - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:32:00
Trusting a crackhead to do all your shopping...Obnoxious alkies who talk without stopping...Drunken pole dancers with gold nipple rings...These are a few of my favorite things.
(not really) - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:49:00
That was an original MetrohumanX musical contribution. All together now... - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:51:00
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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)
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
Holidaze
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: hälidāz
Sentence: From Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve Julie is in a holidaze, buying more than she can comfortably afford for family and friends. She wanders the mall chanting the mantra of the **don*t want to offend** crowd, **Happy Holidays**, daring not utter the word Christmas. By Christmas Day she is as surprised as the recipients with what she has bought. The trance is finally broken in January when the OMG bills arrive.
Etymology: holiday (a day of festivity or recreation when no work is done) + daze (make someone unable to think or react properly; stupefy; bewilder)
Clausquander
Created by: Lingoism
Pronunciation: Clau-skwon-der
Sentence: Jenny had to go to rehab after the Christmas holidays to cure herself from the Clausquander syndrome after effects.
Etymology: Claus - Santa Claus Squander - to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully
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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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
Ghoulcarding
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: gool/card/ing
Sentence: On Christmas Eve the the malls are filled with people ghoulcarding, buying anything and everything in sight and willing to kill for it.
Etymology: ghoul + gold card
Scroogaphobia
Created by: ckstreet
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Toms scroogaphobia kept him at the mall getting last minute presents.
Etymology: Scrooge + phobia
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COMMENTS:
tis the season to be thankful for the gift we all recieved. - ckstreet, 2007-12-14: 11:52:00
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Plastickorgy
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: plas-tik-AWR-jee
Sentence: Roxie never put off till tomorrow buying what she could buy today. And she was never so happy than at Christmas time, when her uberplasticity 'maxed out' in a plastickorgy of buying "happiness" for kith and kin alike.
Etymology: Blend of PLASTIC: a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered; "do you take plastic?" [syn: credit card, plastic] TICK: , n. [Abbrev. from ticket.] Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick. To go on trust, or credit. & ORGY: any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending" [syn: orgy, binge, splurge]
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