Verboticism: Festipsy
DEFINITION: v., To prepare for holiday events where you must chat with irritating co-workers or nagging relatives, by consuming just enough alcohol to make you feel "relaxed". n., A person who arrives at a party pre-inebriated.
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Blitzeden
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: blitzed-en
Sentence: Oh look! There's Santa's other reindeer - the one on the 12-step program - Blitzeden! He always gives parties a lot of foreshot.
Etymology: blitzed, Blitzen
Candyhammered
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kandēhamərd
Sentence: Joe didn*t really mean to show up at the company holiday party woozy. The boss gave him a large box of rum-laced chocolates as a gift and he sampled a few to be polite and then a few more. By party time he was candyhammered.
Etymology: candy (a sweet food made with sugar or syrup combined with fruit, chocolate, or nuts) + hammered (drunk)
Festoned
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Feh - stond
Sentence: By nature a withdrawn sort, Wilbur was becoming quite happy and animated to the point of being totally festoned on the party 'punch'.
Etymology: Fest(celebration) and Stoned (drunk)....a play on the word 'festooned'.
Alcomooder
Created by: simon
Pronunciation: alko-moo-da
Sentence: I have to turn into such an alcomooder before these parties.
Etymology: I have to drink to change my mood to make these parties more enjoyable.
Christmellowed
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /kris-mel'-lohd/
Sentence: First I christmellowed with a couple nips of brandy before the holiday party, until I heard minglebells in my head, and that loosened me up enough to impress my boss, and Gail from Marketing, with some funny stories of my Uncle Frank, and then I even did an imitation of my dear uncle every Christmas Eve, right there on the floor.
Etymology: Christmas (Old English, Cristes maesse "Mass of Christ") + mellowed - mildly and pleasantly intoxicated (Old English, mearu. Meaning "slightly drunk" is from 1690.)
Socyulebibe
Created by: Edsoteric
Pronunciation: soush-yule-bibe
Sentence: Ordinarily Gary was not much of a tippler but he did socyulebibe to make the rounds of his clients interminable office parties more bearable.
Etymology: social + yule + imbibe
Holidaze
Created by: TTwoo
Pronunciation: Ho-li-dayz
Sentence: I'm gonna get holidazed for your mother's visit.
Etymology: Holiday + Daze
Wassailant
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: was say lant
Sentence: There is one at every Christmas Party...the wassailant. It's that friend, co-worker or relative who needs liquid courage in order to face their demons and tell people what they really think of them. The only good thing of them coming soused is that they inevitably conk out on the coat pile in the bedroom, leaving the rest to enjoy themselves.
Etymology: Wassail (a punch made of sweetened ale or wine heated with spices and roasted apples; especially at Christmas;celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities & Assailant (someone who attacks)
Fauxmas
Created by: jmotsch
Pronunciation: foe mass
Sentence: After a full day of toasting, Jim was totally fauxmassed when he arrived at the children's choir performance. I must always fauxmas before attending midnight mass.
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