Verboticism: Misspirityulize
DEFINITION: To offer non-denominational, inter-faith seasonal greetings, which are nevertheless a tad politically incorrect.
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Seculate
Created by: parabasis
Pronunciation: SECK-yoo-late
Sentence: "Happy Whatever!" he seculated.
Etymology:
Mistlebloe
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: missle-blo
Sentence: Robert stood under the mistletoe hoping to get kissed. But whenever he opened his mouth, he'd mistlebloe, and then get slapped.
Etymology: missle+blow=the explosive version of mistletoe
Hollisays
Created by: ronarscorruption
Pronunciation: Hall-ee-saees
Sentence: I tend to give people hollisays around the holidays.
Etymology:
Kwannukate
Created by: DaddyNewt
Pronunciation: kwa-noo-cate
Sentence: Wanda thought that Bill was kwannukating at the office party.
Etymology: kwanza+hannuka+communicate
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.
Sexogram
Created by: rocko213
Pronunciation: sex-oh-grahm
Sentence: "I didn't know what to get you honey, so I got a sexogram for you instead, meet me in the bedroom at 1:30.
Etymology:
Agnauseam
Created by: wyzowl
Pronunciation: ag nauseam (simialr to "ad nauseam")
Sentence: His agnauseam seasonal greetings were sickening to people of all beliefs.
Etymology: agnostic + ad nauseam
Misunifaholyate
Created by: theantiipod
Pronunciation: Mis-uni-fa-holy-ate
Sentence: The media tends to misunifaholyate an awful lot during the holidays, I feel a little offended.
Etymology: Mis + unification + holy
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