Verboticism: Joyploy
DEFINITION: v., To show appreciation for a gift, even if it is something that you do not really need or want, by feigning joy. n., A faked display of gratitude.
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Fauxlalaing
Created by: yellowbird
Pronunciation: foe-la-la-ing
Sentence: Grandma didn't really like that weight set you gave her; she was only fauxlalaing.
Etymology: faux (fake) and fa la la, a Christmas song chorus and ah! the sound someone makes when startled or surprised
Fauxlation
Created by: monkeywithamonocle
Pronunciation: Fo-lay-shun
Sentence: To show false elation. Becky was fauxlated with the gift she received. She had never felt such fauxlation in all her life.
Etymology: Faux (false) elation (joy)
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COMMENTS:
Very good! - Mustang, 2008-12-23: 23:56:00
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Shampreciation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sham pree she ayshun
Sentence: Sharmaine had the biggest and best garage sales ecery summer. Most of the things she sold were new, not-ever-out-of-the-packaging type things. The reason for these sales was that Sharmaine was the Queen of Shampreciation. She could never say a bad word about a gift, she always faked her gratitude. And then she piled the offending gift into the spare room to pile up for the next big garage sale. If only her friends and family paid somne attention to her likes and dislikes, she wouldn't have to hold these huge sales all the time!
Etymology: Sham (feign, pretend,a person who makes deceitful pretenses) & Appreciation (indebtedness, gratitude)
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COMMENTS:
Always find the gift of laughter in your creations. This one leaves me wondering if any one would buy these even at garage sale prices! - silveryaspen, 2008-12-23: 11:06:00
Cant help but wonder if that offensive gift was shampoo....eeewww - Mustang, 2008-12-23: 23:58:00
Nice blend - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-23: 23:58:00
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Crappreciation
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: krap ree see ay shun
Sentence: Her crappreciation of his efforts left her with a amn who had absolutely no real sense of her needs and an appartment full of small glass animals.
Etymology: crap appreciation
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - Tigger, 2007-12-20: 05:46:00
I've found it best to crapitulate and let the glass rooster and frog "accidentally" fall off the shelf to have an excuse to excise them from your living room. - purpleartichokes, 2007-12-20: 19:17:00
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Shamdanke
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: sham-dawn-ka
Sentence: The utterly useless gee-gawd-awful he gave her did not score a slam-dunk with her ... it scored a shamdanke.
Etymology: sham for fake and danke which is the German word for thanks ... shamdanke
Presentense
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pres en tens
Sentence: Sabrina hated being picked by Dan as a secret Santa for the office party. It put her in the presentense. For three years in a row she got stuck with tools. Little did she know her husband Lenny and Dan had engineered the gift choice so that he could benefit...
Etymology: Present (gift) & Tense (physical/nervous tension)
Imaginarithanks
Created by: gemmgemms
Pronunciation: em-aj-en-air-ee-they-enk-sa
Sentence: She showed a half-hearted imaginarithanks not realizing that with such little effert he could tell she did not like his gift.
Etymology: imaginary:not real + thanks
Fakitude
Created by: Korinne
Pronunciation: Fak-it-tude
Sentence: I had to show some fakitude when Frank gave me a Michael Bolton CD.
Etymology: Fake + It + Gratitude
Thaunk
Created by: stvspl
Pronunciation: "thonk"
Sentence: Upon receiving a fishing pole from her grandson, Grandma Millie thaunked him, and threw it away later.
Etymology: thank + the "au" in "faux"
Thankfauxness
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: thank-fo-ness
Sentence: Marina had the unhappy knack of inspiring totally inappropriate gifts but had managed to retain many friends by polishing her thankfauxness to such perfection that most of them believed she truly loved to receive kitschy items such as crocheted toilet roll dolls, artificial aquarium lamps and vinyl coasters.
Etymology: thankfulness + faux