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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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Condisendyule
Created by: stevezoid
Pronunciation: con-dis-end-yule
Sentence: He was trying to incorporate everyones belief in his Christmas Office party speech but came off sounding condisendyule.
Etymology:
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"
Sexogram
Created by: rocko213
Pronunciation: sex-oh-grahm
Sentence: "I didn't know what to get you honey, so I got a sexogram for you instead, meet me in the bedroom at 1:30.
Etymology:
Athelutations
Created by: davidave
Pronunciation: A thel u TAY shuns
Sentence: Recognizing his coworkers diverse cultural backgrounds, Mark greeted the room with neutral athelutations.
Etymology: Elision of atheism and salutations.
Celabotulate
Created by: Xenophanes
Pronunciation: Sell-A-Botch-You-Late
Sentence:
Etymology:
Yuledoot
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: yoolsht
Sentence: Ben was agonostic and could only provide luke-warm yulesht tidings for the holidays.
Etymology: yule + sit
Fickamble
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: Fick - Am - Bull
Sentence: I hate it when my I see someone fickamble the holiday season. Don't they know when the fickamble they lose the meaning of the holiday spirit?
Etymology: fick - derived from fickle + amble - derived from ramble (meaning they ramble on and on with their fickle ways)
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