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DEFINITION: To find something you really want in a shop, but then, since you cannot buy it immediately, to hide it so that no one else will get it.
Verboticisms
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Hidonistic
Created by: freakystyley
Pronunciation: Hi-Do-Nis-Tick
Sentence: That Shirley is such a hidonistic character when it comes to shopping for jeans.
Etymology: Hide + Hedonistic
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COMMENTS:
Thought it would have been rawhidonistic leather trousers. Good word. - galwaywegian, 2007-12-26: 07:09:00
funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-26: 11:28:00
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Idoolater
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: eye doo lay tor
Sentence: Her idoolatry had become an artform which never failed, apart from that one time, when she secreted the to-die-for lingerie in the the pet gift section at Maaaceys.
Etymology: idolater, do later.
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COMMENTS:
love it - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-26: 11:28:00
Love the sentence and word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-26: 18:52:00
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Purcacher
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: pur/cache/er
Sentence: Her husband had suspended all debit and credit cards and limited her to a weekly allowance because of her outlandish spending sprees. As a result, she was a cash only buyer. Unfortunately, when that money ran out, she turned into a devious purcacher who hide sale items in various places in the store until her weekly allowance came in.
Etymology: purchaser + cache
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COMMENTS:
Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-26: 18:51:00
Great word! Wish I'd thought of it. - Mustang, 2007-12-26: 22:08:00
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Shopguise
Created by: jeceelpz
Pronunciation:
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COMMENTS:
very nice play on shop, guy, guise ... I like it. - silveryaspen, 2008-01-04: 12:40:00
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Hideandgosneak
Created by: Maxine
Pronunciation: hiyd and go sneek
Sentence: While shopping, Martha hid the 90% discounted high-end purse in a pile of stale, leftover Christmas candy. With some luck, she'd be able to run home and grab the gift card she forgot. She's a regular hideandgosneaker.
Etymology: hide and go seek, sneak
Shopahoarder
Created by: Korinne
Pronunciation: Shop/a/hoard/er
Sentence: A chronic shopahoarder, Janeane hid the store's last pair of burgandy pumps so she can buy them later.
Etymology: Shop + Hoard (A play on the word Shopaholic)
Dresspionage
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: dress/pee/on/aj
Sentence: Sally was so desperate to buy the last prom dress in her size that she had to use a little dresspionage and hide it under some pilate's balls until she could come back and purchase it.
Etymology: dress + espionage
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COMMENTS:
Great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-26: 18:53:00
haha! hits the mark! - freakystyley, 2007-12-26: 23:32:00
Like the furtive nature of this word and the way it rolls off the tongue. Very nice word. - silveryaspen, 2007-12-27: 19:41:00
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Hideeholdem
Created by: Redrover
Pronunciation: hide+ee+hold+um
Sentence: Darlene could never make up her mind about purchases when she first saw things so she was forever secreting the items where no one would notice she had pulled a hideeholdem.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
lol! nice one! - freakystyley, 2007-12-26: 23:45:00
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Filchnik
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: filch - neek
Sentence: Guess I better fichnik these sneakers before somebody else sees them, so I can buy them when I have the money.
Etymology: filchnik: filch and sneak + filchnik
Surreptistash
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Sur - REP - tuh - stash
Sentence: Beatrice didnt want to risk losing the bargain on the shoes so she decided to carefully surreptistash them behind the stack of shirts for the big and tall guys.
Etymology: Surreptitious (sneaky) + Stash (hide)
