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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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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)
Masflu
Created by: spickaspanner
Pronunciation: Mus-floo
Sentence: I have to buy 100000000 presents for Christmas at teh last minute. Ahh i think i'm getting Masflu!
Etymology:
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
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).
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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Noelosis
Created by: jmotsch
Pronunciation: no el oh sis
Sentence: Jeb was suffering from a bad case of noelosis of the giver.
Etymology:
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
Spendmanium
Created by: gemmgemms
Pronunciation: spen-da-main-ee-um
Sentence: He was locked into a state of spendmanium as he entered the mall.
Etymology: spend + manium
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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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