Verboticism: Glitchgreeting
DEFINITION: To offer non-denominational, inter-faith seasonal greetings, which are nevertheless a tad politically incorrect.
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Holidooze
Created by: Malemocynt
Pronunciation:
Sentence: That airport in the news has no idea how to holidooze their way through a multi-culti crowd.
Etymology:
Politicalmas
Created by: hvhtim
Pronunciation: political-mas
Sentence:
Etymology: political, christmas
Winterrify
Created by: ipmcleod
Pronunciation: rhymes with "terrify"
Sentence: There he goes with that mistletoe belt buckle, winterrifying his co-workers.
Etymology: winter + terrify
Unigratings
Created by: wordbird
Pronunciation: uni-grat-ings
Sentence: I'm tired of the bland and safe holiday unigratings that are crafted for sensitivity.
Etymology: universal (comb. form); grating
Solipseason
Created by: attis
Pronunciation: Sol-ip-seas-on
Sentence: In his ignorance he committed a dreadful solipseason.
Etymology: Solus (Latin: alone) ipse (Latin: self) and Season
Accostodiate
Created by: torgo
Pronunciation: acost-owe-dee-ate.
Sentence: In response to an excess of political correctness it has become de rigeur to spread accostodiations to all.
Etymology: Accost is to greet someone but not necessarily in a friendly way. And odiate comes from the latin "to hate".
Decembarrass
Created by: wmullen
Pronunciation: de/sem/BEAR/ass
Sentence: Though he means well, my father tends to decembarrass himself with each year's card.
Etymology: December / embarrass
Doonesburiate
Created by: nicolase
Pronunciation:
Sentence: While the Parkers would have liked to economize during the holidays by sending one card to their entire address book, their culturally unpopular devotion to Satan suggested the wisdom of doonesburiating to some extent, at least with Jim's work associates, and Patty's bridge club.
Etymology: Term derived from "Doonesbury", the most well-known of several widely read newspaper cartoons that emerged in the 1980s, characterized by an edgy and irreverent rhetorical humor used as wry and subterranean social commentary, but safe and inoffensive eno
