Verboticism: Christerical
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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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.
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Decorfatuate
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: dek-uhr-fach-oo-eyt
Sentence: They knew her decofatuating had gone too far when she bought festive contact lenses that made her eyes look like Christmas trees.
Etymology: decorate + infatuate (as in obsess)
Decorcessive
Created by: dusterbug
Pronunciation: de-cor-sessive
Sentence: don't you think you are going a little decorcessively this year?
Etymology: decorate + exsessive
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COMMENTS:
Excellent! - Mustang, 2007-12-03: 17:57:00
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Decwhorator
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: DEK-hor-ay-ter
Sentence: My friend, Wendy, is such a decwhorator that she has an entire month's worth of festive sweat shirts and sweaters. The one with Snoopy carrying the plate of cookies is cute, but the snow scene sweat shirt with a little stuffed kid tacked on to a spot where he appears to be sledding down Mt. Mammary, well, I think it's slightly obscene.
Etymology: decorator, whore (an obsessed person)
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COMMENTS:
Very funny. Amusing reference to that 'sledding' location too... - Tigger, 2007-12-03: 21:13:00
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Unbelievabawble
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: unn bee leev a baw bull
Sentence: She was totally unbelievabawble as she jingled all the way to her workgrotto, merrily mincing her buns on her way back from refyuleing at the coffee dock.
Etymology: unbelievable, bauble
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COMMENTS:
Congrats on your 'minimaim' fame. Well deserved! - Stevenson0, 2007-12-03: 12:26:00
I like refyuleing as well - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-03: 13:01:00
Big congrats on getting published Galway! (And I personally know a bun-mincer.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-12-03: 19:20:00
Good on ya for success with "minimaim' - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-04: 16:32:00
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Decorationist
Created by: Daniel999
Pronunciation: Dekorachonst
Sentence: As a decorationist, she was approached throughout the year for various decorative ideas.
Etymology:
Deckaholsic
Created by: nhanusek
Pronunciation: deck a hols ic
Sentence: Anita suffers from deckaholsic. I think she even attends meetings.
Etymology: deck the halls + alcoholic
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COMMENTS:
Nice! Deckaholic would have been good as well. - purpleartichokes, 2007-12-03: 18:57:00
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Holidict
Created by: beaugosse
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Look at this house! She's a seasonal holidict!
Etymology:
Tinselitis
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: tinsel/I/tis
Sentence: Sue's tinselistis was so acute that they had to schedule an emergency tinsellectomy.
Etymology: tinsel + tonsillitis
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COMMENTS:
Congrats on your over all weekly win last week! Some great words!! Well done!!! - Stevenson0, 2007-12-03: 15:10:00
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Hollytosis
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: holl-lee-toe-sis
Sentence: Mitch didn't realize the level of Bonnie's hollytosis until he saw that the cats had been dyed red and green and that the refrigerator had been wrapped in tinsel.
Etymology: holly + halitosis... it's monday - my brain's not totally warmed up yet.
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COMMENTS:
very funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-03: 13:03:00
Clever! - Tigger, 2007-12-03: 21:17:00
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