Verboticism: Holidooze

'Happy Holidays from the North Pole!'

DEFINITION: To offer non-denominational, inter-faith seasonal greetings, which are nevertheless a tad politically incorrect.

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Unicheer

Created by: speakeasy

Pronunciation: yoon-eh-cheer

Sentence: "Hello Harry, just popping to spread some unicheer with a few of Ingrid's latkes."

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Ignorancisms

Created by: erwalter

Pronunciation: ig·no·rance·isms

Sentence: Walmart has stopped using ignoancisms such as "happy holidays" and is guessing the faith of people and greeting them accordinly

Etymology: ignorance + "isms"

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Celeberate

Created by: Sissyphus

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Sentence: Disdaining any particular seasonal tradition, he celeberated them all with "Happy week of the highest suicide rate!"

Etymology: portmanteau of celebrate and berate

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Greesting

Created by: meiyas

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Sentence: he always try to greesting other people, and see if they manage to get it.

Etymology: the word comes from a combination of greeting and sting, meaning you are greeting someone but there is a hidden sting

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Winterrify

Created by: ipmcleod

Pronunciation: rhymes with "terrify"

Sentence: There he goes with that mistletoe belt buckle, winterrifying his co-workers.

Etymology: winter + terrify

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Fauxmas

elstiko

Created by: elstiko

Pronunciation: Fo-mah (or Fohcksmas, if you prefer)

Sentence: Joel made an astonishing fauxmas by wishing his Turkish colleague a happy ANZAC day.

Etymology: From Faux Pas and Xmas, obviously.

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Salrudetation

Created by: haroldbarold

Pronunciation: sal-rude-tay-shun

Sentence: Everyone dreaded being cornered by reindeer-breath Randy and his off-color salrudetations.

Etymology: salutation + rude

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Celebracialize

Created by: crazytown

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Sentence: Johnny's father attempted to celebracialize with the other parents at the public school's Holiday Festival, but was only met with awkward silence.

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Interfesting

Created by: LlamaMan

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Chrimbushist

Deadpanlives

Created by: Deadpanlives

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Sentence: God she's such a chrimbushist, can't she get anything right?

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