Verboticism: Mallbearer
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.
Mallbearer
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: pawl-BAIR-uhr
Sentence: Bob confessed to friends that he would rather go to a funeral than be a mallbearer on one of Roxie's shopping trips.
Etymology: Blend of MALL: (as in shopping mall)mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; & PALLBEARER: One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; so called from the pall being formerly carried by them; PALL: lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; grim, gloomy, foreboding.
Points: 857
Comments: Mallbearer
Jabberwocky - 2008-08-27: 16:04:00
excellent
Nosila - 2008-08-28: 01:38:00
Ah, death by debit, all sales final, slashed prices, coffin up more cash...Debt of a Salesman!
metrohumanx - 2008-08-28: 03:35:00
Bravo! More! More!