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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.
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Masflu
Created by: spickaspanner
Pronunciation: Mus-floo
Sentence: I have to buy 100000000 presents for Christmas at teh last minute. Ahh i think i'm getting Masflu!
Etymology:
Spendmanium
Created by: gemmgemms
Pronunciation: spen-da-main-ee-um
Sentence: He was locked into a state of spendmanium as he entered the mall.
Etymology: spend + manium
Oweoweowe
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: o o o
Sentence: T'was the day before Christmas and all thru the Mall, no one paid cash, no one at all. The charge cards were melting from the friction of swipe and shoppers all wondered how they'd survive all the hype. Santa was laughing, his cheeks very merry. He told all the shoppers oweoweowe, Christmas debt is scary!
Etymology: Owe (be indebted to;be in debt) & Ho Ho Ho (Santa's trademark laugh;"Ho ho ho" is a rendition of a particular type of deep-throated laugh or chuckle which is of Gaelic (Irish language) derivation)
Peeadly
Created by: Tamra
Pronunciation: Pee ADD-ly
Sentence: When I locked my keys in my car I was stranded and with no restrooms nearby I had a sudden feeling of peeadly.
Etymology: the sudden feeling of the need to urinate. The feeling one gets when they feel they can no longer 'hold it'
Amexpansive
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: am eks pan seive
Sentence: Deep down he knew that being amexpansive would prove amexpensive. He would soon be amex pensive.
Etymology: amex, expansive
Uberplasticity
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: ew-burr-PLAS-tiss-ee-tee
Sentence: Roxie never put off till tomorrow buying what she could buy today. And she was never so happy than at Christmas time, when her uberplasticity 'maxed out' buying "happiness" for kith and kin.
Etymology: Combination of "UBER" in recent coinages extreme, over the top & beyond the norm + PLASTIC: "the plastic" slang term for a credit card + -ITY: state or condition. *
Buyemic
Created by: mygirlboo
Pronunciation: Buy-emic
Sentence: Did you hear about Kathy? She became buyemic during the holidays.
Etymology: Buy + Bulimic
Stupenerous
Created by: Niktionary
Pronunciation: stoo-pen-r-us
Sentence: Once Max had taken a second loan on the house to send his daughter to Cancun for her Sweet Sixteen with her 19 year old boyfriend, he realized he may have been overly stupenerous
Etymology: Stupid+ generous+ spend
Swipensein
Created by: mrowka
Pronunciation: Swipe-n-sign
Sentence: While shopping for my families presents I turned into Swipensein and charged everything without thinking about it.
Etymology: Swiping and signing, as in paying with a credit card, and Frankenstein, the monster who walks around zombie-esque
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COMMENTS:
Who's better than you? - hyperborean, 2008-12-17: 19:27:00
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Santasmerized
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: san-TAZ-mer-izd
Sentence: Once again the Christmas spirit had Leon absolutely Santasmerized, feeling the need to please everyone with lavish gifts, he seemed to be in a stupor and he was putting thousands of dollars he could ill afford on his credit card.
Etymology: Blend of 'Santa' and 'mesmerized' (Spellbound or enthralled. Hypnotized)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen Thank you silveryaspen ~ James
silveryaspen - 2007-12-14: 14:44:00
Liked all the words!
Thank you silveryaspen for the great idea ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-12-17: 19:12:00
Into the valley of malls, went the $5 hundreds ... It was the light of the charge brigade!
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James