Verboticism: Tinselitis
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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Domindecorate
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: dom-inn-deck-or-ate
Sentence: He could barely move when he walked into the house. She domindecorated so much so that the walls, floors and ceiling where completely covered with Yuletide "kitsch", it was like a Christmas padded cell.
Etymology: dominate (to permeate or to occupy a commanding or elevated position) + decorate (to furnish or adorn with something ornamental)
Decorobsessivitis
Created by: mzscarlet
Pronunciation: dekor-obsessi-vitis
Sentence: Because of her decorobsessivitis, Susie looks like a clown most of the time, changing clothes and accessories to match every imaginable holiday.
Etymology:
Obsessibrate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ob-SESS-uh-brayt
Sentence: Gracielda was so heavily into the holiday spirit she once again showed her need to obsessabrate by decorating everything from her dog, to her car, the refrigerator and even the john in her bathroom, making her friends and family members wonder if she was in touch with reality.
Etymology: Blend of obsession and celebrate
Festinfatuate
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: fest-in-FACH-oo-eyt
Sentence: For Bob, festinfatuated with the feriations of the whole world, the year was a 365 red-letter daze.
Etymology: Festinfatuate: Festival, Festoon & Infatuate:inspire with extravagant passion. 2. Feriation: celebrating a holiday (Grambs: "The Endangered English Dictionary.")
Compulsifester
Created by: thebaron
Pronunciation: com-pul-si-fes-ter
Sentence: Jill was such a compulsifester, she wore a wreath around her neck for two weeks before Christmas.
Etymology: compul (compulsive) fester (festivities)
Flashobishionist
Created by: stumpthepensicle
Pronunciation: flash o bition ist
Sentence: Not only was he a braggard but he was also flashobishionist during the Holiday seasons.
Etymology:
Deckadent
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dek a dent
Sentence: Merry Yule is a self-proclaimed deckadent. She starts gathering her Christmas Kitsch in October and by December her home,vehicle,office, pets and person are covered in greens & reds, candy canes, bells and holly. When she looks for a new home, the first thing she asks is, "Where can I put the Christmas Tree?" She gets so excited waiting for Santa, no one has the heart to tell her he's not real...
Etymology: Decadent (a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically); marked by excessive self-indulgence)& & Decorate (make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.)& Deck (to decorate;to be beautiful to look at)
Sillybrate
Created by: dochanne
Pronunciation: Silly-brate
Sentence: Sally sparkled and tinkled as she walked, the bells on her shoes making them look elfinesque, while her large fat-santa ear-rings flashed incessantly beside her red-dyed hair. When the door opened her colleagues inevitably looked up, their gaze drawn by reflex and some would emit a groan equally reflexively. "Season's Greetings!" she would smile at everyone, glowing with holiday glee as she bounded about the office in a flurry of red, green and gold, flashing lights and ringing bells. Until she bumped into Adrian, greying cubicle curmudgeon: "Oh, stop-it, you silly girl!" he snapped, having heard enough bells for the day. "If you don't go away or get rid of that crap I'll forcibly de-festoon you, sillybrate!"
Etymology: Silly - the very [] overuse of tinsel, bells, lights, fat flashing light santas, present-shaped ear-rings and other festoonery foisted on us by the over-indulgent foistooners of the season. Celebrate - what is commonly supposed to happen on special or seasonal occasions, and usually involving a modicum of merriment, mead, melee and possibly mistle-toe..
Festcessive
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: fest/ces/sive
Sentence: She is completely and totally festcessive about the Christmas season.
Etymology: festive + obcessive + excessive
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COMMENTS:
Great word! - Mustang, 2007-12-03: 17:51:00
Very nice, and good for all holidays. - purpleartichokes, 2007-12-03: 19:03:00
Another great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-04: 16:29:00
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Ornamenomania
Created by: xirtam
Pronunciation: awr-nuh-men-no-mey-nee-uh
Sentence: My sister is suffering from ornamenomania, she redecorates every room for each holiday.
Etymology: ornament - to furnish with ornaments. + Monomania - an inordinate or obsessive zeal for or interest in a single thing, idea, subject, or the like.
