Verboticism: Buyerpatch

'Must buy presents.'

DEFINITION: n., The wondrous, and the "wonder how I'm going to pay for it" feelings of the holiday shopping season. v., To stumble through a shopping mall like a zombie on a buying binge, grabbing anything and everything that will fit on your credit card.

Create | Read

Buyerpatch

Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: Buy her patch

Sentence: The Christmas charge is a spree-ing-loaded time that puts us all through a buyerpatch.

Etymology: BUYER, PATCH, BRIER PATCH. BUYER - any shopper is one. PATCH - a small area of time before Christmas. BRIER PATCH - a patch of thorny wild trailing roses, a deceptive place in that the lovely flowers have thorns that will rip you to shreds as you go get them ... kind of like lovely presents that rip your wallet to shreds as you go get them.

Points: 827

Comments: Buyerpatch

metrohumanx - 2008-12-17: 00:46:00
OOOh. Good one. Spend we must, however. :)