Verboticism: Afterfate

'Happy Holidays from the North Pole!'

DEFINITION: To offer non-denominational, inter-faith seasonal greetings, which are nevertheless a tad politically incorrect.

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Athelutations

Created by: davidave

Pronunciation: A thel u TAY shuns

Sentence: Recognizing his coworkers diverse cultural backgrounds, Mark greeted the room with neutral athelutations.

Etymology: Elision of atheism and salutations.

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Bombemotte

erasmus

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: bomb mott

Sentence: Colin always knew how to stop a conversation dead with his bombemottes.

Etymology: its like dropping a 10 ton bomb on the conversation leaving total silence in its wake.

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Boocheer

Created by: Ochiee

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Ignorancisms

Created by: erwalter

Pronunciation: ig·no·rance·isms

Sentence: Walmart has stopped using ignoancisms such as "happy holidays" and is guessing the faith of people and greeting them accordinly

Etymology: ignorance + "isms"

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Republandism

Created by: POKETNRJSH

Pronunciation: re-pub-bland-ism

Sentence: That commercial wishing me a happy "chrismakwanzakah" was filled with republandism.

Etymology: What's more bland than a poorly-worded politically correct phrase that some republican thought up?

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Xholimas

Created by: malindaemb

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Holipease

Created by: Dooreatoe

Pronunciation: hol-i-peez

Sentence: At my office holiday party, I was having a difficult time attempt to holipease the Christians, Atheists and Jewish people all at once.

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Cheerocrate

Created by: kmccardle

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Agnauseam

Created by: wyzowl

Pronunciation: ag nauseam (simialr to "ad nauseam")

Sentence: His agnauseam seasonal greetings were sickening to people of all beliefs.

Etymology: agnostic + ad nauseam

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Desalutation

Created by: danboaz

Pronunciation: dE-Salu-ta-Shun

Sentence: Jim, known for being uncouth, consistantly made folks uncomfortable at the part with his awkward desalutations.

Etymology: de: away + salutation

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