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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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Cheerdiction
Created by: Ismelstar
Pronunciation: [cheer-dik-shuhn]
Sentence: I realized I had a problem after my third hour in the shopping mall. I hadn't eaten, I hadn't slept and I was dressed in the same velour track suit I had worn the day before. My cheerdiction was out of control. I didn't want to leave, I didn't want to stay, and I knew I had a problem, but the cheerdiction kept me going. I could buy one more present, the perfect present, the sparkliest, most flawless, joy inducing present I had ever given.
Etymology: From "cheer" meaning to gladden or cause joy to and "addiction" meaning the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma.
Consumepulsion
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: con-soom-pul-shun
Sentence: (sung to The Christmas Song) Visa maxed out on some hopeless bling, Discover's reaching for the max you know it s been said many times many ways, Comesumepulsion's got you now...
Etymology: Consume!/Consumer + (com)pulsion
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)
Roweboughtics
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: row/bot/tics
Sentence: Sally did her Christmas essay on Roweboughtics, concentrating on the spasmodic reflexes of holiday shoppers as they approached big ticket items like Wiis.
Etymology: robotics (the study of robots) + owe + bought + tics
Trancspend
Created by: nicky
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I go to the mall around Christmas and trancspend till my wife calls and says its time to come home.
Etymology: trance, spend
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).
Splurjesus
Created by: Maxine
Pronunciation: splur 'jee zus
Sentence: In one day, Peter splurjesused $1500 on gifts. And why wouldn't he? As a Christian, it's his duty to spend as much as possible during the holiday season.
Etymology: A portmanteau of 'splurge' and 'Jesus'; the connotation of frightening abnormality from 'bejesus'
Zombuying
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: zämbīng
Sentence: There’s nothing like celebrating the birth of the Jesus by wondering about the mall acting like the undead — bouncing from store to store zombuying whatever comes within range. Will they come back to painful life when the bills come due? Of corpse!
Etymology: zombie (a soulless corpse said to be revived by witchcraft) + buying (obtain in exchange for payment)
Scroogaphobia
Created by: ckstreet
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Toms scroogaphobia kept him at the mall getting last minute presents.
Etymology: Scrooge + phobia
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COMMENTS:
tis the season to be thankful for the gift we all recieved. - ckstreet, 2007-12-14: 11:52:00
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Mesmeryuleogy
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: mez-mer-YULE-oh-gee
Sentence: With their brains completely befuddled by the frantic shopping spree Brad and Linda offered one another sincere mesmeryuleogy at all the great buys they were making, not realizing they had maxed out 4 credit cards and were working on a fifth with purchases of what was likely to find it's way to the recesses of closets of their friends.
Etymology: Blend of mesmerized (spellbound), Yule (Christmas, or the Christmas season) and Eulogize (to praise highly)
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