Verboticism: Holidazzler
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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Hollytosis
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: holl-lee-toe-sis
Sentence: Mitch didn't realize the level of Bonnie's hollytosis until he saw that the cats had been dyed red and green and that the refrigerator had been wrapped in tinsel.
Etymology: holly + halitosis... it's monday - my brain's not totally warmed up yet.
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COMMENTS:
very funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-03: 13:03:00
Clever! - Tigger, 2007-12-03: 21:17:00
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Xmasdecafobia
Created by: mblewis41
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Jack has spent so much time and money on Xmas decorations, I think he's suffering from xmasdecafobia.
Etymology:
Hollydaze
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: hälēdāz
Sentence: Becky believes in the organic lifestyle. With Christmas coming she has decided to festoon a festive vest with holly leaves. Nothing synthetic for her. No plastic, no satin. Becky is in a hollydaze. Maybe it is an effect of the season. Maybe it is the blood loss caused by her prickly apparel.
Etymology: holly (a widely distributed shrub, typically having prickly dark green leaves, small white flowers, and red berries) + daze (make someone unable to think or react properly) play on Holidays
Tinselfitter
Created by: durananrananran
Pronunciation: tin-sul-fit-ter
Sentence: Molly is such a tinselfitter, every December she outfits her desk in tinsel and baubles. She tinselfits out the rear window of her car with fairy lights
Etymology: tinsel + fitter
Holifanorator
Created by: lelia
Pronunciation: holi-fan-o-rator
Sentence: She is such a holifanorator that she has lost count of all of her decorations!
Etymology:
Barmy
Created by: iwmpop
Pronunciation: barmee
Sentence: Decorating as you do is barmy
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
just starting with this "game" so I kept it easy! - iwmpop, 2007-12-03: 06:36:00
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Ornamaniac
Created by: kragn
Pronunciation: orn-a-MAY-nee-ack
Sentence: Debbie's an ornamaniac -- she's got a couple of strands of Christmas lights in her purse for unexpected decorating opportunities.
Etymology: ornament + maniac
Bauballer
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: Bah ball er
Sentence: Miss L Toe, the lady snowman loved Christmas. She had a ball (well actually, she had three very nice ones) buying lots of Christmas balls. She used them for buttons instead of lumps of coal, and even for her eyes and nose. Miss L Toe put them on the trees, hung them from the street lights, car antennas, any where to please. She pinned them on the jackets of all who came to see her, too. She was the greatest bauballer of all
Etymology: BAUBLE, BALL, ALL, ER Bauble - synonym for decoration. Ball - round Christmas ornaments, also means to have fun as in have a ball (and any sexual connotations I leave to your imaginations). All - everthing and everyone as in where she put them. Er - a suffix meaning somebody who performs a particular action.
Wreathflex
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: reeth/flex
Sentence: Once the first snowflake has fallen it is an automatic wreathflex to bedeck and festoon everything within eyesight with garlands and bows and silver bells...ahhh gives me goosebumps. 'deck the halls with boughs of holly, fa la la la la la la la la'
Etymology: wreath + reflex
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COMMENTS:
great word! - galwaywegian, 2007-12-03: 08:02:00
Great word and sentence. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-04: 16:38:00
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