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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.
Verboticisms
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Trancepurchasing
Created by: thebaron
Pronunciation: trance-pur-chasing
Sentence: There she was, mulling through the mall trancepurchasing again.
Etymology: trance (zombie like state) Purchase (buy)
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'
Spenderlust
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: spɛndərləst
Sentence: In a bad case of spenderlust Brian bounced from one store to another at the mall buying most everything that caught his eye until his card was declined. Looks like its gonna be a ramen January.
Etymology: spender (somebody who pays out money in buying or hiring goods or services) wanderlust (a strong desire to travel)
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
Plastickorgy
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: plas-tik-AWR-jee
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' in a plastickorgy of buying "happiness" for kith and kin alike.
Etymology: Blend of PLASTIC: a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered; "do you take plastic?" [syn: credit card, plastic] TICK: , n. [Abbrev. from ticket.] Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick. To go on trust, or credit. & ORGY: any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending" [syn: orgy, binge, splurge]
Masteriscarding
Created by: thejoshinator
Pronunciation: Master-is-card-ing
Sentence: Jimmy was full of excitement about Christmas and had no care for money saving, so set out masteriscarding like mad.
Etymology: Mastercard+is, which shows the master is the card (master/is/card), which is like being a zombie, controlled by the credit card. 'Is' also makes the master the credit card owner, going crazy and carding (carding is using a credit card master/is/carding).
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.
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COMMENTS:
OOOh. Good one. Spend we must, however. :) - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:46:00
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Stupemaxifaction
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: STOOP-ih-max-ih-faction
Sentence: Ebinezer flung back the musty curtains and threw open the frosty windows which looked down upon the busy village street below. Pure snow slightly muffled the sound of silver sleighbells and cash registers, but gladdened the heart of the old ex-skinflint deep within him. Barely pausing for his boots and top hat, Ebinezer could not wait to immerse himself in this STUPEMAXIFACTION which seemed to fill everyone with the profound joy of giving which had eluded him for so long. Now if only that 48 inch plasma HDTV was still in the shop window.....Ho Ho HO !
Etymology: STUPEfy+MAXImize+satisFACTION= STUPEMAXIFACTION.....STUPEFY:to make stupid, groggy, or insensible,the state of being stupefied by intoxicants or pervasive jolliness; Middle English stupifien, modification of Latin stupefacere, from stupēre to be astonished + facere to make, do .....MAXIMIZE:the greatest quantity or value attainable or spent, an upper limit allowed (as by a legal authority or one's credit rating); Latin, neuter of maximus biggest.....SATISFACTION:the payment through penance of the temporal punishment incurred by a sin or excessive credit abuse, fulfillment of a need or want,no matter how costly,the quality or state of being satisfied, no matter how briefly; Sixties English,Can't get no,Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin satisfaction-, satisfactio, from Latin, reparation, amends, from satisfacere to satisfy.Hey Hey Hey.
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COMMENTS:
Is it Christmas yet?
http://isitchristmas.com/ - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:32:00
Trusting a crackhead to do all your shopping...Obnoxious alkies who talk without stopping...Drunken pole dancers with gold nipple rings...These are a few of my favorite things.
(not really) - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:49:00
That was an original MetrohumanX musical contribution. All together now... - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:51:00
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Shopnosis
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: shop-noh-sis
Sentence: Stumbling through the mall in a state of shopnosis, she was glad she brought her pillow and blanket so she could have a nice sleep on one of the comfy leather couches.
Etymology: shop + hypnosis
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COMMENTS:
I like it! Deck the malls with spending folly, fa-la-la-la-lah la-la-la-lah... - Tigger, 2007-12-16: 16:33:00
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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