Verboticism: Greaith
DEFINITION: To offer non-denominational, inter-faith seasonal greetings, which are nevertheless a tad politically incorrect.
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Insaludate
Created by: Benperson
Pronunciation: (in-SAL-yoo-dayt)
Sentence: I was embarrassed when my atheist Grandpa insaludated my Jewish teacher.
Etymology:
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:
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.
Fauxkwanza
Created by: xcruser88x
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Assuming that his Brazilian coworker was African, Michael cheerily fauxkwanzad him.
Etymology: faux pas + kwanzaa (missing "a" a fauxkwanza in itself)
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
Holicember
Created by: robynlicious
Pronunciation: holl-AH-sember
Sentence: Stop calling your Christmas Tree a Holicember Shrub.
Etymology: "holi" from holiday, but can also refer to boughs of holly. "cember" from December
Goatseyule
Created by: greeneye
Pronunciation: Goat-see-yool
Sentence: Bob opened his speech with what he intended as a cheerful-but-vague holiday greeting, but which actually goatseyuled the entire crowd.
Etymology: goatse: web-ese, for a stretched out gaping anus; yule: relating to the holidays
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COMMENTS:
- greeneye, 2006-12-12: 12:25:00
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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".
