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DEFINITION: v., To prepare for holiday events where you must chat with irritating co-workers or nagging relatives, by consuming just enough alcohol to make you feel "relaxed". n., A person who arrives at a party pre-inebriated.
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Fauxmas
Created by: jmotsch
Pronunciation: foe mass
Sentence: After a full day of toasting, Jim was totally fauxmassed when he arrived at the children's choir performance. I must always fauxmas before attending midnight mass.
Etymology:
Hoptimist
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: HOP - tuh - mist
Sentence: After a couple of "steadiers" Bob, a hoptimist with a 'corona' of confidence, marched smilingly into his workplace's Christmas party, greeting heartily fellow-workers who normally 'drove him to drink".
Etymology: HOPTIMIST: Blend of hop(s), used in beer brewing. Consider slang "On the hops", and Optimist: One who feels that things will work out well. STEADIER: (sl) a beer to steady the nerves. CORONA: 1.A crown 2. Mexican beer. DRIVE TO DRINK: Make s.o so irritate
Sackference
Created by: mizzverbz
Pronunciation: sackference
Sentence: The man kept a reasonable sackference away from the securtiy gaurd
Etymology: The 'uera' in which some individuals are surrounded
Festoned
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Feh - stond
Sentence: By nature a withdrawn sort, Wilbur was becoming quite happy and animated to the point of being totally festoned on the party 'punch'.
Etymology: Fest(celebration) and Stoned (drunk)....a play on the word 'festooned'.
Prebriate
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: pre/bree/ate
Sentence: I prebriate for all staff functions when I know the toxic managers are going to show up. Three, or four rye and ginger ales are sufficient for my prebriation to function with these morons.
Etymology: pre + prior + inebriate
Prebriate
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: pre/bree/ate
Sentence: I prebriate for all staff functions when I know the toxic managers are going to show up. Three, or four rye and ginger ales are sufficient for my prebriation to function with these morons.
Etymology: pre + prior + inebriate
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COMMENTS:
Ryebuck! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-18: 16:13:00
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Putrumintumtum
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: poot/rum/in/tum/tum
Sentence: When he received his invitation to the Christmas lunch he took the little drummer boy's advice and putrumintumtum.
Etymology: put + rum + tum (as in tummy) + pa rum pum pum pum
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COMMENTS:
Hysterical!!! - libertybelle, 2007-12-18: 10:36:00
I need to ruminate on this one! Very clever and offbeat! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-18: 16:17:00
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Hotbutteredchum
Created by: Nuwanda
Pronunciation: hot-but-turd-chum
Sentence: Normally, Ted was kind of a drag, but on the holiday cocktail party circuit, he was everyone's hotbutteredchum.
Etymology: Hot buttered rum, a delicious winter libation, altered to incorporate chum, a word for a pal.
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COMMENTS:
Another funtastic creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-12-19: 10:24:00
Funny indeed!!! - mweinmann, 2008-12-19: 11:08:00
Fits the definition like a hand in a glove, too! - silveryaspen, 2008-12-19: 20:54:00
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Saintnipped
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: saynt - nipped
Sentence: Joshua got saintnipped this near before arriving at his family Christmas gathering. Uncle Clyde's 20 minute monologue about his illustrious post office career didn't bother him this time, nor did Aunt Sara's endless questions about when he was going to bring home a nice Presbyterian girl to meet the family. Actually, all of these things started to seem amusing to Joshua for a change.
Etymology: This word combines Jolly Old Saint Nick (or Santa Claus) with the past tense of Nip (a small drink of liquor).
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COMMENTS:
Funtastically cute! - silveryaspen, 2008-12-19: 10:26:00
Great word...Saintnipped also explains a very cold Christmas Eve... - Nosila, 2008-12-19: 22:38:00
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Jollitipple
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: JOL-ee-Tip-uhl
Sentence: After a couple of "steadiers" Bob, a hoptimist with a 'corona' of confidence, descended upon his workplace's Christmas party like a festilence, and jollitippled fellow-workers who normally 'drove him to drink".
Etymology: JOLLY: Slang. slightly drunk; tipsy 2.Informal. to talk or act agreeably to (a person) in order to keep that person in good humor, esp. in the hope of gaining something. "They jollied him along until the job was done." 3.To cause to be jolly; to make good-natured; to encourage to feel pleasant or cheerful; -- often implying an insincere or bantering spirit; hence, to poke fun at. [Colloq.] TIPPLE:to drink (intoxicating liquor), esp. repeatedly, in small quantities.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by yellowbird Thank you yellowbird ~ James
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