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DEFINITION: v. To purchase a bauble, article of clothing, or major appliance, in order to alleviate anxiety or other psychological stress. Often leads to overspending. n. An item which has been purchased to fill an emotional void.

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Shoppiness

Top verboticism of the day created by mweinmann

Pronunciation: shop - ee - ness

Sentence: Marilous purchased 52 pairs of shoes last Sunday just for her shoppiness. She was feeling blue and all the colors and styles perked up her mood.

Etymology: shop, happiness

Created by: mweinmann.

Comments:

It's her shopstitutional right to be happy! - Nosila, 2009-08-18: 12:16:00

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Buypolar: /by pol ar/ Wendy had trouble right after Christmas in not shopping. Although half-price or less, her non-essential purchases were of a buypolar nature and as a result, Wendy always completed next year's Christmas shopping by January 5th of that year. Of course finding the items or remembering who they were for was the next big challenge. Etymology: Buy (purchase,acquire) & bipolar (of or relating to manic depressive illness) Created by: Nosila.

Anaesdebtic: /an-ess-det-ic/ Clare always shopped frenziedly after a coffee morning with 'the girls'. How they earned six figures, raised children, coordinated charitable fund-raisers, (and their outfits) without ever passing through puberty puzzled Clare. Could the hollow emptiness of her inadequacy be filled with shoes? Luckily, the anaesdebtic would soon kick in. Etymology: anaesthetic + debt Created by: Carla.

Cashquencher: /kash-kwench-er/ In her emotional state Rachel bought those heels as a total cashquencher. Etymology: cash + quench Created by: Koekbroer.

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