Verboticism: Fauxmas
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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Candyhammered
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kandēhamərd
Sentence: Joe didn*t really mean to show up at the company holiday party woozy. The boss gave him a large box of rum-laced chocolates as a gift and he sampled a few to be polite and then a few more. By party time he was candyhammered.
Etymology: candy (a sweet food made with sugar or syrup combined with fruit, chocolate, or nuts) + hammered (drunk)
Loadstoned
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: low d stow nd
Sentence: Carter knew how to bolster up for the Christmas gatheringy-dingdings. All it takes is a slew of morale boozeter shots. Everyone knows that a Carter is good at getting well-loaded, yet still delivering the goods. For parties, Carter was well sot after, perhaps because of his plastered smile, and smooth as Black Velvet tongue. He was a loadstoned attraction.
Etymology: LOADED, STONED, LODE STONE. Loaded and stoned are synonyms for being inebriated. Lode Stone not only means a magnetic rock, it is also any thing that attracts others.
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COMMENTS:
clever - Jabberwocky, 2008-12-19: 15:51:00
This must be how they invented Carter's little liver pills!!! Good word. - Nosila, 2008-12-19: 22:40:00
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Arsehohoholes
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: arr sohohohoho ls
Sentence: He got completely arsehhohoholes. he ended up as a yulebesorry under the tree
Etymology: arsholes (drunk) hohoho
Prehammered
Created by: spickaspanner
Pronunciation: Pree-ham-er-ded
Sentence: Oh no, not lunch with that twat again... Don't you just feel prehammered?!
Etymology:
Hoptimist
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: HOP - tuh - mist
Sentence: After a couple of "steadiers" Bob, a hoptimist with a 'corona' of confidence, marched smilingly into his workplace's Christmas party, greeting heartily fellow-workers who normally 'drove him to drink".
Etymology: HOPTIMIST: Blend of hop(s), used in beer brewing. Consider slang "On the hops", and Optimist: One who feels that things will work out well. STEADIER: (sl) a beer to steady the nerves. CORONA: 1.A crown 2. Mexican beer. DRIVE TO DRINK: Make s.o so irritate
Fauxmas
Created by: jmotsch
Pronunciation: foe mass
Sentence: After a full day of toasting, Jim was totally fauxmassed when he arrived at the children's choir performance. I must always fauxmas before attending midnight mass.
Etymology:
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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
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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Prepour
Created by: milorush
Pronunciation: (v. tr.) prěp'ōr; (n.) prěp'ō-rā'shən, prěp'ōr'ər
Sentence: I'd find it extremely difficult to deal with my co-workers at the office Christmas party without at least an hour of prepouration first; hell, why should after-hours be any different than the work day?
Etymology: pre[pare] + pour (noun forms - prepouration and prepourer)
Socialcoholize
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: sosh-i-al-co-hol-ize
Sentence: I was not at ease at the party until I got socialcoholized.
Etymology: social+alcohol
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