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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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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
Grabbling
Created by: bananabender
Pronunciation: grab-bling
Sentence: When Marla opened her present to find a Santa-shaped lava lamp complete with flashing stars, she knew that Wendy had been grabbling again.
Etymology: grab + bling
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
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)
Owehoho
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: o ho ho
Sentence: Twas the day before Christmas and all through the malls, the shopper's were frantic, lugging their hauls. The credit cards were rung by the cashiers with care, in the hopes that their limits could large totals bear. The children were wrestled to await jolly St.Nick, to tell their fond wishes and get a peppermint stick. But we heard him exclaim, as he punched out for his shift, you will owehoho a lot of interest on each last-minute gift!
Etymology: Owe (be in debt to) & Ho Ho Ho (Santa's catch phrase jolly laughter)
Oweoweowe
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: o o o
Sentence: T'was the day before Christmas and all thru the Mall, no one paid cash, no one at all. The charge cards were melting from the friction of swipe and shoppers all wondered how they'd survive all the hype. Santa was laughing, his cheeks very merry. He told all the shoppers oweoweowe, Christmas debt is scary!
Etymology: Owe (be indebted to;be in debt) & Ho Ho Ho (Santa's trademark laugh;"Ho ho ho" is a rendition of a particular type of deep-throated laugh or chuckle which is of Gaelic (Irish language) derivation)
Buyerpatch
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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Shopnosis
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: shop-no-sis
Sentence: Everyone was in a state of shopnosis, grabbing any piece of junk they could get their hands on, not paying any attention to what these objects were, their purpose or appropriateness. Uncle Moe has been as bald as a cue ball since he was 35. Imagine the surprise on his face when he sees the hair straightener that his niece bought him.
Etymology: hypnosis (an artificially induced trance state) + shop (to visit stores for purchasing goods)
Autoponchuspilot
Created by: bzav1
Pronunciation: auto - pawn - chus - pilot
Sentence: In a trance, combining panic and Xmas-zuberance, Ned wandered through the mall on autoponchuspilot, grabbing items from shelves with no regard for price, taste or the impact his decisions would have on others.
Etymology: autopilot + Ponchus Pilot
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COMMENTS:
How very gentile! Thumbs up!...or is that down? mmm - scrabbelicious, 2007-12-14: 09:29:00
FYI: Here's how the Bible spells it: "Pontius Pilate." - Maxine, 2007-12-14: 14:25:00
bless you, Maxine - bzav1, 2007-12-14: 14:48:00
lol, i had to laugh, good job, but pontius pilot doesn't really have anything to do with christ's birth, rather death...OH!!! Okay, I get it, yeah, death can surely come by spending too much on autopilot at xmas time. thumbs up buddy... - chaiandallthatjazz, 2007-12-16: 11:52:00
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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).
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