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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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Trancepurchasing
Created by: thebaron
Pronunciation: trance-pur-chasing
Sentence: There she was, mulling through the mall trancepurchasing again.
Etymology: trance (zombie like state) Purchase (buy)
Holidaze
Created by: Jeeter
Pronunciation: hoh-li-dayse
Sentence: "In my holidaze, I bought everyone an accurate to-scale model of R2D2."
Etymology: holiday + daze
Fooltide
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: fool-tide
Sentence: At 5:00 pm on October 31st the "fooltide carols" begin to work their voodoo on their unsuspecting targets. Accompanied by the glow and sparkle of lights and tinsel, and the lure of huge sales, the happy little tunes plant themselves in the brains of shoppers who wander trancelike through the aisles, knowing full well that they're destroying their credit rating, but unable to resist the hypnosis of the television commercials that even make buying a Lexus with a big red bow seem reasonable. At 12:00 noon on December 25 the music stops and everyone goes back to their lives as if nothing happened.
Etymology: wordplay on Yuletide -- fool: one who lacks good judgement; one acts unwisely on a given occasion + tide: time or season - most often used in combination such as yuletide or Christmastide
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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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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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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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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Ghoulcarding
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: gool/card/ing
Sentence: On Christmas Eve the the malls are filled with people ghoulcarding, buying anything and everything in sight and willing to kill for it.
Etymology: ghoul + gold card
Stupemaxifaction
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: STOOP-ih-max-ih-faction
Sentence: Ebinezer flung back the musty curtains and threw open the frosty windows which looked down upon the busy village street below. Pure snow slightly muffled the sound of silver sleighbells and cash registers, but gladdened the heart of the old ex-skinflint deep within him. Barely pausing for his boots and top hat, Ebinezer could not wait to immerse himself in this STUPEMAXIFACTION which seemed to fill everyone with the profound joy of giving which had eluded him for so long. Now if only that 48 inch plasma HDTV was still in the shop window.....Ho Ho HO !
Etymology: STUPEfy+MAXImize+satisFACTION= STUPEMAXIFACTION.....STUPEFY:to make stupid, groggy, or insensible,the state of being stupefied by intoxicants or pervasive jolliness; Middle English stupifien, modification of Latin stupefacere, from stupēre to be astonished + facere to make, do .....MAXIMIZE:the greatest quantity or value attainable or spent, an upper limit allowed (as by a legal authority or one's credit rating); Latin, neuter of maximus biggest.....SATISFACTION:the payment through penance of the temporal punishment incurred by a sin or excessive credit abuse, fulfillment of a need or want,no matter how costly,the quality or state of being satisfied, no matter how briefly; Sixties English,Can't get no,Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin satisfaction-, satisfactio, from Latin, reparation, amends, from satisfacere to satisfy.Hey Hey Hey.
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COMMENTS:
Is it Christmas yet?
http://isitchristmas.com/ - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:32:00
Trusting a crackhead to do all your shopping...Obnoxious alkies who talk without stopping...Drunken pole dancers with gold nipple rings...These are a few of my favorite things.
(not really) - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:49:00
That was an original MetrohumanX musical contribution. All together now... - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:51:00
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Uberplasticity
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: ew-burr-PLAS-tiss-ee-tee
Sentence: Roxie never put off till tomorrow buying what she could buy today. And she was never so happy than at Christmas time, when her uberplasticity 'maxed out' buying "happiness" for kith and kin.
Etymology: Combination of "UBER" in recent coinages extreme, over the top & beyond the norm + PLASTIC: "the plastic" slang term for a credit card + -ITY: state or condition. *
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