Verboticism: Decophile
DEFINITION: n., A person so enamored with the holidays that they don't just deck their halls and home, but they also decorate their car, their cubicle, their pets, and themselves. v., To obsessively decorate according to seasonal holidays.
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Fesquinoxaphrenic
Created by: MichaelCampbellUK
Pronunciation: fes-kwe-nox-a-fre-nic
Sentence: Ursula's fesquinoxaphrenia drove her like some crazed clockwork squirrel to stockpile the seasons baubles.
Etymology: Fes- (from festive) -quinox (from equinox, a seasonal event) -aphrenia (hebaphrenia, mental illness characterised by extreme hoarding). See 'fesquinoxafrenic' N.
Decoramus
Created by: schoolmarm
Pronunciation: dec/or/A/mus
Sentence: His past follies could have been forgiven, but his coworkers quailed when the resident decoramus showed up on St. Patrick's Day wearing nothing but a four-leaf clover.
Etymology:
Decorosessive
Created by: JusMeLP
Pronunciation: De'CORE' - o - sessive
Sentence: Call me 'Decorosessive', but jus' because you don't appreciate holidays - Don't hate me for being 'In the Spirt' !!!!
Etymology: Decor + Obsessive = a compulsion to Decorate everything during a holiday!!
Preposterxmas
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: pripästəreksməs
Sentence: Holly's approach to the holidays is truly preopsterxmas. It was bad enough last year when she started wearing a string of lights and couldn't leave her cubicle without trailing extension cords behind her but this year she is festooned with sprigs of holly and ornaments. She is a hazard to be around.
Etymology: preposterous (utterly absurd or ridiculous)+ Xmas (informal term for Christmas)
Festcessive
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: fest/ces/sive
Sentence: Sylvia took the Christmas carol 'Deck the Halls' and its meaning to the extreme, decorating anything and everything. She is completely and totally festcessive about the Christmas season.
Etymology: festive + obcessive + excessive
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COMMENTS:
success-ive - Nosila, 2009-12-14: 16:15:00
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Xmasdecafobia
Created by: mblewis41
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Jack has spent so much time and money on Xmas decorations, I think he's suffering from xmasdecafobia.
Etymology:
Jinglehells
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: Jingle hells
Sentence: On my way to work, Just a normal day. Here we go again... Trinkets in the way! Ditsy colleagues hang, Tinsel by the score. Don't they realise we are not children anymore? OH! ...
Etymology: Jingle Bells. Everyone sing along!
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COMMENTS:
you have a touch of the bah humbugs there! - petaj, 2008-12-10: 05:50:00
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Psyclaustic
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: sigh + claws + tic
Sentence: My mom has over 152 Santa Claus figurines of one sort or another, and drags them out every Christmas - I guess you could say she's psyclaustic.
Etymology: psychotic + claus
Compulsifester
Created by: thebaron
Pronunciation: com-pul-si-fes-ter
Sentence: Jill was such a compulsifester, she wore a wreath around her neck for two weeks before Christmas.
Etymology: compul (compulsive) fester (festivities)
