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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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Letusowe
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: let us o
Sentence: Oh, the Crowds in the Mall are frightful,but the sales are so delightful. And since we have one week to go, letusowe, letusowe, letusowe. It doesn't show signs of stopping, And I've bought my cards for shopping, My limits are now way down low, letusowe, letusowe, letusowe! When we finally kiss goodnight, How I'll have hated going out in the store! When I get my bill I'll turn white, And hope that I don't lose the farm. The shoppers are slowly dying, And, for credit we're still applying, But as long as you love me so, letusowe, letusowe, letusowe!
Etymology: Play on "Let it Snow"...Christmas Song (apologies to Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne)...owe (to be in debt)
Consumepulsion
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: con-soom-pul-shun
Sentence: (sung to The Christmas Song) Visa maxed out on some hopeless bling, Discover's reaching for the max you know it s been said many times many ways, Comesumepulsion's got you now...
Etymology: Consume!/Consumer + (com)pulsion
Storpor
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: store-per
Sentence: A state of deep storpor had been induced among the shoppers. They were defeated. The cheery elves and the bawling infants, the fluorescent lights and grotesque displays, the relentless rasping tannoy urging them to 'buy before it's gone', had triumphed. The shoppers dully storpored out their pin codes, vainly attempting to salvage some vestige of self-purpose.
Etymology: store + torpor (a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility)
Inadvisabill
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: inn add veez ab ill
Sentence: It was inadvisabill to try to do all one's christmas shopping in Cartier, after the child could choke on those rocks, but that the heck, it was christmas
Etymology: inadvisable, visa bill
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COMMENTS:
My excuse would be that the Visa-bility was obscured by the glare. great word - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-14: 10:50:00
very clever incorporation of Visa! - silveryaspen, 2007-12-14: 14:19:00
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Buyemic
Created by: mygirlboo
Pronunciation: Buy-emic
Sentence: Did you hear about Kathy? She became buyemic during the holidays.
Etymology: Buy + Bulimic
Peeadly
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'
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)
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).
Patrombie
Created by: jajsr
Pronunciation: Pa-trahm-bee
Sentence: Waiting until the last minute to buy her Christmas gifts, Susan joined her fellow patrombies at the mall.
Etymology: Combination of "Patro" from patron - one who buys the goods or uses the services offered especially by an establishment; and "mbie" from zombie - a person held to resemble the so-called walking dead.
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