Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: o ho ho

Sentence: Twas the day before Christmas and all through the malls, the shopper's were frantic, lugging their hauls. The credit cards were rung by the cashiers with care, in the hopes that their limits could large totals bear. The children were wrestled to await jolly St.Nick, to tell their fond wishes and get a peppermint stick. But we heard him exclaim, as he punched out for his shift, you will owehoho a lot of interest on each last-minute gift!

Etymology: Owe (be in debt to) & Ho Ho Ho (Santa's catch phrase jolly laughter)

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Created by: bananabender

Pronunciation: grab-bling

Sentence: When Marla opened her present to find a Santa-shaped lava lamp complete with flashing stars, she knew that Wendy had been grabbling again.

Etymology: grab + bling

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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)

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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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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: gool/card/ing

Sentence: On Christmas Eve the the malls are filled with people ghoulcarding, buying anything and everything in sight and willing to kill for it.

Etymology: ghoul (a possessed evil spirit, or demon) + gold card

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COMMENTS:

ghoulopogos word - Nosila, 2009-12-19: 01:54:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: gool/card/ing

Sentence: On Christmas Eve the malls are filled with people ghoulcarding, buying anything and everything in sight and willing to kill and eat flesh for it.

Etymology: GHOULCARDING from - GOLD CARD (a credit card with a high credit rating and with the privilege of being eaten alive by the interest rates) + GHOUL (an evil spirit, or demon in folklore believed to plunder malls and feed on Christmas shoppers)

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Created by: dochanne

Pronunciation: Lur-chis

Sentence: Deanne stumbled through the endless maze of brightly decorated, tinsellated, festoonyoulated and carol-playing shops, stupefied and buying random objects that caught her attention. She zomgrabitated to items of medium size and moderate cost, vaguely recalling her credit limit and dragging her stumbleboon behind her. With glazed unblinking eyes she spotted a shiny articulating hand-held kitchen whizzywidget and immediately zomplasticated it, adding her latest lurchase to her already stuponderous load.

Etymology: Lurch - brrrraaaiiinnnnsssss!!! Purchase - acquire through the dangerous use of plastic when the brain is in a zombastic state.

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COMMENTS:

I want one, too. - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 12:14:00

nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-12-17: 13:25:00

You're on a roll! - hyperborean, 2008-12-17: 19:20:00

Very, scary realistic story! - Nosila, 2008-12-17: 21:44:00

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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

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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'

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Created by: jajsr

Pronunciation: Pa-trahm-bee

Sentence: Waiting until the last minute to buy her Christmas gifts, Susan joined her fellow patrombies at the mall.

Etymology: Combination of "Patro" from patron - one who buys the goods or uses the services offered especially by an establishment; and "mbie" from zombie - a person held to resemble the so-called walking dead.

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