Verboticism: Hotbutteredchum
DEFINITION: v., To prepare for holiday events where you must chat with irritating co-workers or nagging relatives, by consuming just enough alcohol to make you feel "relaxed". n., A person who arrives at a party pre-inebriated.
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Holidaze
Created by: TTwoo
Pronunciation: Ho-li-dayz
Sentence: I'm gonna get holidazed for your mother's visit.
Etymology: Holiday + Daze
Christmellowed
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /kris-mel'-lohd/
Sentence: First I christmellowed with a couple nips of brandy before the holiday party, until I heard minglebells in my head, and that loosened me up enough to impress my boss, and Gail from Marketing, with some funny stories of my Uncle Frank, and then I even did an imitation of my dear uncle every Christmas Eve, right there on the floor.
Etymology: Christmas (Old English, Cristes maesse "Mass of Christ") + mellowed - mildly and pleasantly intoxicated (Old English, mearu. Meaning "slightly drunk" is from 1690.)
Blitzeden
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: blitzed-en
Sentence: Oh look! There's Santa's other reindeer - the one on the 12-step program - Blitzeden! He always gives parties a lot of foreshot.
Etymology: blitzed, Blitzen
Putrumintumtum
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: put/rum/in/tum/tum
Sentence: When he received his invitation to the Christmas lunch he took the little drummer boy's advice and putrumintumtum.
Etymology: put + rum + tum (as in tummy) + pa rum pum pum pum
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COMMENTS:
Luv it! So clever and superbly adorable. Touches the kid that lives in all of us and makes Christmas such fun! - silveryaspen, 2008-12-19: 10:31:00
Good one - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-21: 17:19:00
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Hotbutteredchum
Created by: Nuwanda
Pronunciation: hot-but-turd-chum
Sentence: Normally, Ted was kind of a drag, but on the holiday cocktail party circuit, he was everyone's hotbutteredchum.
Etymology: Hot buttered rum, a delicious winter libation, altered to incorporate chum, a word for a pal.
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COMMENTS:
Another funtastic creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-12-19: 10:24:00
Funny indeed!!! - mweinmann, 2008-12-19: 11:08:00
Fits the definition like a hand in a glove, too! - silveryaspen, 2008-12-19: 20:54:00
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Antitotaler
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈæntiˌtoʊdəlɚ/
Sentence: The antitotaler was ejected from the party after being charged with the host with a PWI. He was only able to make a PUI stick, however.
Etymology: antitotaler: from anti- + teetotaler PUI: Partying Under the Influence PWI: Partying While Intoxicated
Sherrychristmased
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sher ree kris mast
Sentence: Nick had already been to five other homes on the block for his annual walkabout on Christmas Eve. Sampling nibblies and good cheer, by house #6, The Bailey's, he was plastered. Since he only did this at Yuletime, he arrived sherrychristmased. Luckily, the Bailey's knew him well enough to lay him out on the spare bed until either Christmas, sobriety or alcoholic poisoning happened. It would not be the first time that the Bailey children would think that Nick, in his Santa suit, was the real thing...in fact he was often the topic of the next show and tell...
Etymology: Sherry (fortified wine, drunk as an aperitif) & Wordplay on "Merry Christmas"
Absolutsanta
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: ab-soul-oot-san-tah
Sentence: Gary showed up to the Christmas party playing the role of Absolutsanta - he had obviously been rehearsing all day with a bottle of scotch. No one really minded until he decided to "water" the Christmas tree.
Etymology: Absolut -popular brand of Vodka + Santa -play on Absolut ad campaign.
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COMMENTS:
poor tree!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-18: 10:51:00
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Souseguest
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: sow-s-gest
Sentence: Don't mind Charlie, he won't be driving home after the party, he's a souseguest.
Etymology: house guest (someone invited into one's home, usually to stay for a while) + souse (alcoholic)
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COMMENTS:
Funtastic! - silveryaspen, 2008-12-19: 01:07:00
Very good!! - Mustang, 2008-12-19: 19:00:00
Good word...I have people I can call that this week! Merry Christmas! - Nosila, 2008-12-19: 22:39:00
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Hollyjollyhammered
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: hall-ee-jaw-lee-ham-erd
Sentence: He was so hollyjollyhammered that he offered to grace everyone at the office Christmas party with his heavenly voice and sing a Christmas tune - it was an amalgamation of Silent Night, Little Drummer Boy, and Take This Job and Shove It.
Etymology: Hollyjolly (as in the Christmas spirit) + hammered (drunk, wasted)
