Verboticisms

Created by: xirtam

Pronunciation: kris-mākst-out

Sentence: I christmaxedout my Master Card and I am not done shopping. Now I'll have to use my Visa.

Etymology: Christmas: The annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus. + Maxed: To reach one's limit. + Out: finished; ended.

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Created by: andrian

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Created by: Tamra

Pronunciation: Pee ADD-ly

Sentence: When I locked my keys in my car I was stranded and with no restrooms nearby I had a sudden feeling of peeadly.

Etymology: the sudden feeling of the need to urinate. The feeling one gets when they feel they can no longer 'hold it'

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: Buy her patch

Sentence: The Christmas charge is a spree-ing-loaded time that puts us all through a buyerpatch.

Etymology: BUYER, PATCH, BRIER PATCH. BUYER - any shopper is one. PATCH - a small area of time before Christmas. BRIER PATCH - a patch of thorny wild trailing roses, a deceptive place in that the lovely flowers have thorns that will rip you to shreds as you go get them ... kind of like lovely presents that rip your wallet to shreds as you go get them.

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COMMENTS:

OOOh. Good one. Spend we must, however. :) - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:46:00

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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

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Created by: ckstreet

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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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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: 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)

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Created by: rombus

Pronunciation: gift - gilt - a - wish

Sentence: Nancy was overtaken with an extreme sense of giftguiltawish. This caused her to spend endless amounts of money and time buying everyone she had even talked to during the year with a gift during the holiday season.

Etymology: Gift (something given willingly, eg as a present)+ Guilt (Self-reproach for supposed inadequacy) + Wish (Something desired or longed for)

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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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