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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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Wassale
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: wassail
Sentence: Here we go a wassaling, among the deals so keen, and here we come a wandring back home venting spleen. Debt and woe, come to you and to you your wassale too. And God dammit, I've spent way too much again.. and God take me before the bill arrives.
Etymology: wassail + sale
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COMMENTS:
Ain't it great re-lyricking old carols! We should make a CD of New Old Carols with modern words....I can see them now stocked up beside Chia Pets in Walmart! - Nosila, 2008-12-17: 21:40:00
Dingdong merrily lay-by,
All round the tills are ringing,
Doggone verily we buy,
our plastic cards aflinging.
Gloria, how's Anna's debt extending? - petaj, 2008-12-18: 05:39:00
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Roboshop
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
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.
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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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)
Oweholynight
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: oh holee nite
Sentence: Oweholynight! The stores are brightly shining, It is the night of getting your money's worth, Long lay those cards in purse and pocket pining, Tills reappear and the soul spent its worth. A thrill of hope the retail world rejoices, For yonder breaks your budget by Mastercard. Fall on your knees! Owe, hear the Visa voices! Owenight divine, Owenight when AmEx was reborn; Owenight divine, Owenight, Owenight Divine.
Etymology: Owe (be in debt, owe money for goods bought) & O Holy Night (Christmas Eve, the night of Jesus' birth, the reason we celebrate Christmas; the title of a Carol announcing the birth of the Savior)
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COMMENTS:
I didn't know you were so musical!
Nice job! - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:47:00
magic!! love it! - galwaywegian, 2008-12-17: 04:06:00
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Mastercarteblanche
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: mah-stir-cart-blahnch
Sentence: Jeff realized that giving his wife the gold card to buy his grand daughter a Christmas present would get pricey, but he never figured that she'd go all master carte blanche on him and buy up every Hannah Montana item that the stores stocked.
Etymology: Master card: credit card company + carte blanche: indiscretionary power
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COMMENTS:
Hannah is hypnotic...must buy, must buy! - Nosila, 2008-12-17: 21:46:00
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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
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)
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