Verboticism: Pernoydles
DEFINITION: n., 1. A pine needle infestation, common during and after the holiday season. 2. Prickly Christmas guests who will not leave and cannot be cleaned up. v., To fall down during a holiday party and hide under a rug.
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Carpetjaggers
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: car-pet-jag-gers
Sentence: Carpetjaggers are resistant to vacuums, and may still be found in your carpet for several months after the tree has been removed, so caution is advised when running in bare feet; however, after several months, they break down and become part of the room's floora.
Etymology: wordplay on carpetbaggers: someone who moves into an area to take it over -- carpet: floor covering + jaggers: sharp or pointy projections
Suckatreeotomy
Created by: jmichon1
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Doctor, do you think this Douglas Fir really needs a suckatreeotomy?
Etymology:
Needlebain
Created by: roger153
Pronunciation: needle / bain
Sentence: Every year we have to put up with this same needlebain all over the house.
Etymology: pine needle mess
Pinemyne
Created by: looseball
Pronunciation: pine+myne
Sentence: Quik get the sweeper and suck up that pinemyne before we smoke this weed and lose our vision.
Etymology:
Pinefestation
Created by: TTwoo
Pronunciation: pah-ain-fes-tay-shun
Sentence: Where's the vaccuum? We got a serious pinefestation in the living room.
Etymology: Pine (as in pine tree) and infestation (as in to be overrun with something in large quantities, usually with harmful effects.)
Pinfest
Created by: spickaspanner
Pronunciation: Pin-fest
Sentence: Quick we need to get rid of the christmas tree before we get a pinfest!
Etymology:
Carpettunnelsyndrome
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: car-pet-ton-nul-sin-drum
Sentence: Every December, my living room rug gets carpettunnelsyndrome from the tree needles. The rug rasps eventually get vacuumed up or compost by June.
Etymology: carpal tunnel syndrome, carpet, tunnel
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COMMENTS:
Superb! - Mustang, 2007-12-17: 06:09:00
ouch - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-17: 13:37:00
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Coniferocious
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: cone iffer oshus
Sentence: Douglas Fir was a mild-mannered sap. His bark was certainly worse than his bite. He ran a Branch Office for his company and struggled to maintain profitability. Out of frustration, he ran for local politics and was elected. He was a coniferocious campaigner. People always used him to get votes and persuade the policymakers, but Doug would have no such influence. He just wanted to be the town Christmas Tree and light up peoples' lives. The only problem he had was that he shed a few thousand needles a day and when Christmas was finally over, he was a stick with lights on him. Needleless to say, his detractors who were larchly the undeciduous voters,would plant false stories about him in the cyPress. Despite what they said, he campaigned for the EverGreen Party. He was a tree Fir the People!
Etymology: conifer ( any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones) & ferocious (marked by extreme and violent energy)
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COMMENTS:
Tree-mendous avalanche of chuckles, N! - metrohumanx, 2008-12-18: 17:39:00
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Treedebris
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Tree - de - bree
Sentence: Norman and Leona decided to have an artificial Christmas tree next year after seeing the extraordinary amout of treedebris this year's tree had shed.
Etymology: Tree + debris
Pinedemic
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /piyn-dem-ik/
Sentence: Since the relatives began arriving more than three weeks before the holidays this year, the tree had to be up early. Now the living room is the source of a widespread pinedemic outbreak, which has spread to every other room in the house, further complicated the inguestation of Christmas visitors, tracking needles everywhere. And we can't even vacuum, because Uncle Frank is still down there under the tree, wrapped in his carpet of rugretfulness — and pine needles.
Etymology: pine - traditional Christmas evergreen (Latin, pīnus) + pandemic - a widespread outbreak (from Greek, pándémos "common" - typical of a disease)
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COMMENTS:
good one - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-17: 13:35:00
nice - galwaywegian, 2007-12-17: 15:15:00
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