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DEFINITION: n. The type of headache you get from buying too many things with your credit card. Note: Symptoms do not usually appear until the following month.v. To buy yourself a huge credit card headache.
Verboticisms
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Postshoppangsyndrome
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: post/shop/pang/syn/drome
Sentence: When the credit card bill arrived, she immediately fell into postshoppangsyndrome where the only cure was a day of receipt seaching and merchandise returning.
Etymology: posttraumaticsyndrome + shop + pang (ache or throb)
Swipegraine
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Swipe-grain
Sentence: As soon as I made my last purchase, my cranium was throbbing with a wicked swipegraine.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
That is why I prefer to slide instead of swipe.. much easier on the noggin' - MisUndrstd, 2007-07-05: 22:07:00
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Bankruptalgia
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: bankrupt-al-gee-a
Sentence: In a fit of pique, Morgan went on a shopping expedition with the corporate credit card purchasing a fleet of vehicles, upgrading PCs for all the staff and treating them all to a long liquid lunch. In addition to their hangovers, they also suffered bankruptalgia the next month when the company went broke and they all lost their jobs.
Etymology: bankrupt + algia (pain) - inspired also by the rupture of a blood vessel in an aneurism
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COMMENTS:
Anything with "-algia" in it gets my vote. But don't hold me to that. - Clayton, 2007-07-04: 12:04:00
Hey Clayton - there are 3 definitions today with algia in them - petaj's sounds the most severe though - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 15:46:00
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Sellebralhemorrhage
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: sell/ee/brall/hem/or/aj
Sentence: My bank account suffered a sellebralhemorrahage after my last shopping spree.
Etymology: cerebral hemorrhage + sell
Sinvoice
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sinˌvois
Sentence: In order to compensiate for her breakup with her boyfriend, Joyce went on a shopping spree. She went through a considerable amount of plasticoin. Her euophoria lasted nearly a month until the sinvoice arrived.
Etymology: sin (an act regarded as a serious or regrettable fault, offense) + invoice (a list of goods sent or services provided, with a statement of the sum due for these; a bill)
Goinnustaboutmony
Created by: cassandra1315
Pronunciation: goin-nut-tabou-tmon-y
Sentence: he was goinutaboutmony.
Etymology:
Enderythralgia
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˌɛndəɹɪˈθɹældʒiə/
Sentence: Enderythralgia is quite common and most medical experts consider it a rational response, and thus not a true pathology. Endomelanalgia (pain caused by _not_ being in the red) is a much rarer and more serious condition.
Etymology: end- (in) + erythr- (red) + -algia (pain) "pain caused by being in the red"
Painomonia
Created by: gonzo
Pronunciation: pain-o-monia
Sentence: He needs silence,darkness and money to cure a terrible painomonia
Etymology: pain- no money- pandemia
Cranialcreditsyndrome
Created by: weareallbeautiful
Pronunciation: k-ray-nee-'l-k-red-it-sin-dro-m
Sentence: He felt a wave of cranialcreditsyndrome come upon him as he looked at the credit card bill from last month.
Etymology: From the word cranial meaning of the skull from the medieval latin root cranium which was from the greek kranium meaning skull which was related to the word kara meaning head
Comments:
Sounds debititating!
Oops, that was meant to be a comment on credache!
Today's definition was illustrated by Franke James. Thank you Franke. ~ James