Verboticism: Yulecide
DEFINITION: To offer non-denominational, inter-faith seasonal greetings, which are nevertheless a tad politically incorrect.
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Decembutations
Created by: khaleroo
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Decebutations to you! Get anything good?
Etymology:
Fauxpaax
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: fo-pox
Sentence: Jeanne's efforts to be inclusive turned into a complete fauxpaax, because she kept mixing up the holidays, and would end up insulting everyone.
Etymology: "faux pas" to faux pax -- no peace
Hohohumdrum
Created by: geekgrrl
Pronunciation:
Sentence: 'I like to say Merry Christmas, instead of Happy Hoidays. It just seems so HoHoHumdrum.'
Etymology:
Ireverendism
Created by: lunaticbythesea
Pronunciation: ER rever end ism
Sentence: Yeah, the boss spewed a bunch of Ireverendisms at the Christmas party,he managed to offend everyone.
Etymology: cross between irelevent,ireverent and Reverend.Denoting an obscure,psuedo,religious yet thoughoughly inept attempt to cover every group of people with the same lame holiday greeting.
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COMMENTS:
MY first submission, if history holds it will also be my best, they can only get worse from now on. - lunaticbythesea, 2006-12-12: 18:25:00
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Fauxmas
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.
Rendeveous
Created by: heydj
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "He was rendeveous towards that man."
Etymology: