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DEFINITION: A traditional cleansing ritual used to prepare for the New Year -- often includes the consumption of special tonics or potions.
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Annualism
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: anewalism
Sentence: December 31st each year demands an anualism in preparation for the coming 12 months.
Etymology:
Alcoholostomy
Created by: Ahoytheship
Pronunciation: alcohol-ostomy
Sentence: She flushed her systems with an alcoholostomy of vodka and orange juice to make room for more vodka.
Etymology: alcohol+colostomy
Silvesterswigging
Created by: mdschermer
Pronunciation: sil-VES-ter-swig-ging
Sentence: In the dark days between christmas and the new year, Kate focused intensely on her new year resolutions while silvesterswigging her way through daddy's single malts.
Etymology: "Silvester" is an alternative name for new year's eve (in germany a.o.), plus "swigging": to engage in drinking liquid in great gulps.
Hogmanitox
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: hog-man-ee-tocks
Sentence: She would always hogmanitox after Christmas because her liver had taken quite a bashing.
Etymology: From "hogmanay" (Scottish term for New Year's Eve) and "detox". Also a hog is a pig, notoriously filthy animals!
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COMMENTS:
Very witty! Good stuff. - fonka99, 2007-01-01: 08:32:00
Notoriously filthy? No. Pigs are naturally very clean and avoid, if at all possible, soiling their living areas! Their confinement is man-made. But I like your word. - egonschiela, 2007-01-01: 13:22:00
Yeah, rolling in the mud is a clear sign of hygiene obsession! Also note that the Bible (you know, that reliable classic) calls swine "unclean". Most importantly, it was a befittingly crude generalization. - Bulletchewer, 2007-01-02: 16:42:00
....snorts, and puts head back in bucket. - egonschiela, 2007-01-02: 18:55:00
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Rebeerthing
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: re-beerth-ing
Sentence: Marcus felt born-again after using premium ale in his rebeerthing ritual.
Etymology: rebirthing + beer
Vodklense
Created by: Lyokia
Pronunciation: vod-clense
Sentence: She felt like she had to vodklense, this wasn't her fault, it's tradition.
Etymology: From vodka and clense.
Alcoholiday
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: al-coh-HAHL-ih-day
Sentence: Jim performed his traditional alcholiday on Dec. 30 -- just in case he wasn't sober enough to remember it on the 31st.
Etymology: alcohol + holiday
Alcamony
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: Al-ca-mo-ne
Sentence: All New Years Eve we sat around in a circle passing the bottle in alcamony.
Etymology: Alcohol & Ceremony
Colalonics
Created by: a68tbird
Pronunciation: col-a-lon-ics
Sentence: An oral ingestion of any brand Colalonic will cleanse the digestion tract, and prepare the liver for oncoming abuse.
Etymology: