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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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Amexpansive
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: am eks pan seive
Sentence: Deep down he knew that being amexpansive would prove amexpensive. He would soon be amex pensive.
Etymology: amex, expansive
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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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
Roweboughtics
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: row/bot/tics
Sentence: Sally did her Christmas essay on Roweboughtics, concentrating on the spasmodic reflexes of holiday shoppers as they approached big ticket items like Wiis.
Etymology: robotics (the study of robots) + owe + bought + tics
Lurchase
Created by: dochanne
Pronunciation: Lur-chis
Sentence: Deanne stumbled through the endless maze of brightly decorated, tinsellated, festoonyoulated and carol-playing shops, stupefied and buying random objects that caught her attention. She zomgrabitated to items of medium size and moderate cost, vaguely recalling her credit limit and dragging her stumbleboon behind her. With glazed unblinking eyes she spotted a shiny articulating hand-held kitchen whizzywidget and immediately zomplasticated it, adding her latest lurchase to her already stuponderous load.
Etymology: Lurch - brrrraaaiiinnnnsssss!!! Purchase - acquire through the dangerous use of plastic when the brain is in a zombastic state.
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COMMENTS:
I want one, too. - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 12:14:00
nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-12-17: 13:25:00
You're on a roll! - hyperborean, 2008-12-17: 19:20:00
Very, scary realistic story! - Nosila, 2008-12-17: 21:44:00
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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
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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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).
Wiispreestings
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: wee - spree - stings
Sentence: Everyone in Stan's family wanted a Wii game system. As he went from store to store trying to find them, he realized that they were in short supply and cost $250.00 each. After that, he found he needed to add controllers and games in order to make them "playable". He was laying out $500.00 for each person and putting extreme mileage on his car, not to mention the time he was spending. As he tried to stay in a festive mood, he started to sing Carols as he drove all over the city. One of his new favorites became "This Wiispreestings, all day in my car, buying gifts, I travel afar. Sears and Nordstom, Best Buy and Walmart followed by the nearest bar."
Etymology: Wii (Nintendo Wii, popular video game system) Spree (engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping) Stings (cause sharp or stinging pains or discomfort)
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COMMENTS:
Wii are the Champions, my friend! Great Word and Rendition! - Nosila, 2008-12-17: 21:37:00
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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