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DEFINITION: To offer non-denominational, inter-faith seasonal greetings, which are nevertheless a tad politically incorrect.
Verboticisms
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Bombemotte
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: bomb mott
Sentence: Colin always knew how to stop a conversation dead with his bombemottes.
Etymology: its like dropping a 10 ton bomb on the conversation leaving total silence in its wake.
Missiletoeing
Created by: aoife
Pronunciation: 'miss-isle-tow-ing'
Sentence: Dan totally missiletoed during his 'merry kwaanza' speech at the Rotary Club when he did a Michael Richards-as-Santa impression.
Etymology: 'mistletoe' + 'missile'
Assimibrate
Created by: kafka
Pronunciation:
Sentence: At the core of the marketing device known as "Santa Clause" is a barely veiled assimibration by large corporations of third world countries.
Etymology: "assimilate" and "celebrate"
Unicheer
Created by: speakeasy
Pronunciation: yoon-eh-cheer
Sentence: "Hello Harry, just popping to spread some unicheer with a few of Ingrid's latkes."
Etymology:
Malefelicitation
Created by: ArsMajika
Pronunciation: MAL-eh-FEH-li-sih-TAY-shun
Sentence: "At the office holiday party, Bob was saying far too many malefelicitations to the foreign finances committee."
Etymology: Maleficent and Felicitations
Holidooze
Created by: Malemocynt
Pronunciation:
Sentence: That airport in the news has no idea how to holidooze their way through a multi-culti crowd.
Etymology:
Comments:
wordmeister - 2006-12-12: 10:34:00
Hey quippingqueen, Good glitch! And I like your quack-pots and nag-gnostics too.
warped - 2006-12-12: 15:58:00
My bad-I didn't see there was already a word like holicide (yulecide). Also, "Fauxmas" is also mine, before I figured out how to log in. :/
warped - 2006-12-12: 15:59:00
Also-yaaay, i'm in the top five right now!
hvhtim - 2006-12-12: 16:01:00
don't forget to vote for politicalmas the holiday of political correctness
wordmeister - 2006-12-12: 17:46:00
Hye babel, you're still at the top even with all the new competition. May I wish you a "feliznaviwhosyourdaddy"!
babel - 2006-12-12: 18:15:00
You may meister, and congrats for 'feliz..' jabberwocky. i was really shocked to see all these new entries, thought there had been a mass spamming.
Jabberwocky - 2006-12-13: 13:01:00
hats off to a true wordsmith Babel