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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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Spiritflush
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: spear-it-flush
Sentence: he wondered if one bottle of vodka would be enough to spiritflush his system
Etymology: spirit and flush
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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Purgotic
Created by: Carole
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After the Christmas and New Year reveling, a strong purgotic was called for.
Etymology:
Hogdetox
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: hog - de - tox
Sentence: Time to hogdetox!
Etymology: hogmanay + detox
Annualism
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: anewalism
Sentence: December 31st each year demands an anualism in preparation for the coming 12 months.
Etymology:
Drunktox
Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts
Pronunciation: "drunk-tox"
Sentence: Every holiday, I go through a drunktox with all of my friends!
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
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.
Lavationlibation
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: lav/a/shun/li/ba/shun
Sentence: Holly Horsefeathers knew that New Year's wouldn't be a success without a little lavationlibation to flush all her troubles away including a fast-talking frog who insisted she play post office.
Etymology: lavation (cleansing or purification process) + libation (a drink)
Glugatory
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: glug a tory
Sentence: stephanie decided she was going for a glugatory evening, to wash it all down with lots of liquids.
Etymology: from glug or glugging and celebratory
