Verboticism: Athelutations
DEFINITION: To offer non-denominational, inter-faith seasonal greetings, which are nevertheless a tad politically incorrect.
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Guiltreet
Created by: schmoozyduh
Pronunciation: Gill-trEEt
Sentence: While it was polite of Susan to give me guiltreet, it made me feel like a stranger.
Etymology: "Guiltreet" is believed to be a combination of the words "guilt" and "greet." The reasoning behind this is possibly the guilt associated with the people that were overly concerned with offending people of any religious preference.
Congratugrate
Created by: wysware
Pronunciation: con-grat-tu-grate
Sentence: I found his "merry substitute-holiday-of-your-choice" greeting particularly congratugrating.
Etymology: congratu (lations) grate (irritate)
Doonesburiate
Created by: nicolase
Pronunciation:
Sentence: While the Parkers would have liked to economize during the holidays by sending one card to their entire address book, their culturally unpopular devotion to Satan suggested the wisdom of doonesburiating to some extent, at least with Jim's work associates, and Patty's bridge club.
Etymology: Term derived from "Doonesbury", the most well-known of several widely read newspaper cartoons that emerged in the 1980s, characterized by an edgy and irreverent rhetorical humor used as wry and subterranean social commentary, but safe and inoffensive eno
Ireverendism
Created by: lunaticbythesea
Pronunciation: ER rever end ism
Sentence: Yeah, the boss spewed a bunch of Ireverendisms at the Christmas party,he managed to offend everyone.
Etymology: cross between irelevent,ireverent and Reverend.Denoting an obscure,psuedo,religious yet thoughoughly inept attempt to cover every group of people with the same lame holiday greeting.
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COMMENTS:
MY first submission, if history holds it will also be my best, they can only get worse from now on. - lunaticbythesea, 2006-12-12: 18:25:00
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Deisploitate
Created by: kword
Pronunciation: De-Sploi-Tate
Sentence: Johnny, the beggar, offered many deisploitational greetings to passers by hoping to capitalize off of inter-faith mandates of charity this holiday season.
Etymology: From Latin deus god, and Latin explicitum, past participle of Deed or act, esp. a notable or heroic one.
Mazelbotch
Created by: jsky20
Pronunciation: ma-zel-bach
Sentence:
Etymology: mazel tov + botch
Whoreliday
Created by: Y2Cajun
Pronunciation: HOR-li-da
Sentence: Happy Whorelidays!
Etymology:
