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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.
Verboticisms
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Lushflush
Created by: veevega
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Gary, who hasn't caught the flu in over ten years, contributes his good health to his participation in our annual lushflush.
Etymology:
Vodkolonic
Created by: david
Pronunciation: vod-ko-lon-o-scopy
Sentence: Did I really drink eight martinis? I feel like I just had a vodkolonoscopy.
Etymology: vodka + colonoscopy
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
Marinatirize
Created by: missparaguay1991
Pronunciation: /MRNTRS/
Sentence: I'm gonna marinatirize my self before it's too late
Etymology: From the Italian marinate, meaning cook with no fire and suffix irize
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.
Winodraino
Created by: Manhattan
Pronunciation: Why-noh-drey-noh
Sentence: Elizabeth was well into her second bottle of vodka, the main recipe in a secret concoction of a very intense Winodraino.
Etymology: The word wino, indicating someone who is a drunkard, and the product Draino, which clears out drains and pipes.
Sousebration
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: sow-sah-bray-shun
Sentence: "Whaaana joooin me foah a liddle sousebration," he said proferring the bottle of peach Schnapps towards me.
Etymology: souse = drunk e-bration = from celebration
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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Antivomit
Created by: kevinrio
Pronunciation: anti vo mi tid
Sentence: I'm safe tonight. I have antivomitted a lot!
Etymology: anti + vomit
