Verboticism: Spreeander
DEFINITION: v. What boyfriends and husbands do while they are waiting their girlfriends and/or wives to shop. n. A person doing such a thing.
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Shopitulate
Created by: eulogy
Pronunciation: shah-pit-you-late
Sentence: I can't go golfing.. I already promised the wife I'd go shopitulate at the mall with her this afternoon.
Etymology: Combination of "shop" and "capitulate" which is pretty much what happens. You know what I'm talking about.
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COMMENTS:
Nice one - cfinleyca, 2007-09-26: 17:38:00
Greater love has no man than that he give up his golf for his wife! Good word - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-26: 18:49:00
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Eyedle
Created by: shalla
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Fred sighed as Jen took six more dresses into the changing room, resigned to eyedling for another twenty minutes at least. Having already eyedled through the homewares and auto departments, he now turned his gaze to electronics...
Etymology: eye (to look at or ogle) + idle (to waste time)
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COMMENTS:
I can see this site becoming addicting... My first-ever verboticism! - shalla, 2007-09-26: 10:40:00
Eye-eye for an eye-popper! Nice word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-26: 18:40:00
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Fleemarket
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: flea-mar-ket
Sentence: Kevin had a low tolerance for shopping with his girlfriend. Within 2 minutes of waiting for her to inspect the goods, he was toe tapping, within 5 minutes he was watch watching, by 10 minutes he was fleemarketing.
Etymology: flee (depart, leave, escape from) + market (shop) + fleamarket (a type of market that one can spend hours picking over bargains)
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COMMENTS:
good one! - remistram, 2007-09-26: 09:33:00
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Browdle
Created by: legalalien
Pronunciation: BROW-dle
Sentence: Although Tiffany promised that it would only be a 3 minute ("I swear, you can time me!") detour into the Sephora store, Hank was left with nothing to do but browdle myriad products whose use he could not fathom.
Etymology: browse (look through or glance at casually) + dawdle (to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter)
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COMMENTS:
clever - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-27: 16:08:00
Lovely word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-28: 01:06:00
Like it! One can only sympathise with Hank. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-28: 03:10:00
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Contemplaza
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: con/tem/pla/za
Sentence: While dutifully lugging bags around the mall like a pack mule, Chris would quietly contemplaza the meaning of life.
Etymology: contemplate + plaza
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COMMENTS:
Has he discovered what it is? If so, please let me know. Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-28: 00:55:00
Always look on the BRIGHT side of lfe. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-28: 01:29:00
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Shoperfunctorate
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: shop-pur-FUNKSHO-rate
Sentence: Bob is not an optimist, he never double parks while Roxie is shopping. All he hopes for, as he shoperfunctorates, is that Roxie's feet will start to hurt before his wallet does. And when she's seriously shoprocrasty, he never ridicules her or becomes boutique-piqued, but remains mart-smart even when she tries on a dozen dresses and an imelda of shoes.
Etymology: Blend of shop & perfunctorate: done merely to get rid of the duty, performed mechanically, by rote, superficially. Cognates: Shoperfunctory, Shoperfunctoriness.
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COMMENTS:
I love boutique-piqued and the imelda of shoes - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-26: 10:46:00
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Mallschlump
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: mawl-shlump
Sentence: While most men might get fidgety when their wives browse thru the stores, Marty takes great delight in an opportunity to just mallschlump, wherein he'll cruise around from business to business checking out babes, window displays and oddball people.
Etymology: blend of words 'mall' (n. large retail complex containing a variety of stores and often restaurants ) and 'schlump' (v. to loaf or idle)
Manopause
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: man - oh - pause
Sentence: Fred was going through manopause today. He started to sweat, have hot flashes and get overemotional as he waited in the sun for 3 hours while Margaret tried on dresses.
Etymology: menopause (a change of life time period where women have many intersting symptoms) + man (a different kind of manopause)..... + pause (to stop or wait)
Manstrawait
Created by: cfinleyca
Pronunciation: man-stra-wait
Sentence: Dude, she was in there for an hour. I had to manstrawait in that stupid little chair. Oh, this time I am going to have to do some serious manstrawaition at the mall.
Etymology: man + (sterbate) + wait
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COMMENTS:
my first attempt - cfinleyca, 2007-09-26: 17:19:00
cool! - kachungis, 2007-09-26: 21:27:00
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Clothesualty
Created by: BSqueeze4
Pronunciation: Clothes-soo-all-tee
Sentence: After seeing the man sitting outside the dressing room with eight shirts in his hands, I knew he was a total clothesualty.
Etymology: Clothes+casualty