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DEFINITION: To purchase a bauble, article of clothing, or major appliance, in order to alleviate anxiety or other psychological stress. Often leads to overspending.
Verboticisms
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Shopdeangst
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: shop-dee-ahngkst
Sentence: The shopping network has profited by taking advantage of the many shopdeangsters worldwide.
Etymology: shop + de + angst
Federlinity
Created by: mythman
Pronunciation: feh-durr-LIHN-ih-tee
Sentence: Britney didn't have new shoes, and was hoping for a man with some Federlinity to solve that problem.
Etymology: How else would a backup-dancer earn the love of such a diva?
Neurowidgetize
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Noo-roh-WIDGE-uh-tize
Sentence: Cynthia liked most of her earrings, but none of them seemed to say "look at me, I'm the newest assistant marketing manager for Macy's catalog sales," so she simply drove down to COSTCO and neurowidgetized a pair that did.
Etymology: Neuro (psychology prefix) + widget (gadget or insignificant sundry item) + ize (suffix that turns nouns into verbs)
Anxessorize
Created by: jesster
Pronunciation: Angz - es - o - rise
Sentence: Angie tended to compulsively anxessorize whenever she had a bad hair day. At last count she had 431 fashion barrettes, 1,327 assorted scrunchies, 32 banana clips, 14 sets of hair extensions (none of which matched her natural color), 7 bun wraps, a dozen beaded hair strings, 43 hair sticks, 68 jaw clips, 82 headbands, 3 tiaras, and a lifetime subscription to Madame Tress's Hairoscope.
Etymology: Anxiety + Accessorize
Resplurgerate
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: re-splurj-er-ate
Sentence: Renae had an oversupply of Eskies (cooler boxes) in her garage, but in her search for the ultimate chill pill, she had just purchased a bar fridge and was eyeing off a side-by-side refrigerator/freezer. Not only was her credit card maxed out, but she was in danger of missing payments on her electricity account. Maybe there's a sweet little retro Kelvinator that will take the edge of the debt stress if she resplurgerated one more time.
Etymology: Refrigerator (a major appliance with a nice chill factor) + splurge (retail binge)
Buypolar
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: bye/pohl/ar
Sentence: Her buypolar personality was responsible for her extravagant spending habits.
Etymology: buy + bi-polar
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COMMENTS:
Buyagra may help. - purpleartichokes, 2007-08-20: 11:33:00
This is an awesome word! Me thinks I suffer from this disorder. - buggy96, 2007-08-20: 22:04:00
How much can a buypolar bear? Good word - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-20: 23:24:00
A little word recycling I see. - petaj, 2007-08-21: 05:12:00
best word in ages! - galwaywegian, 2007-08-21: 05:38:00
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Psychoverspendilleviation
Created by: Uccxxxv
Pronunciation: Psycho-over-spend-ill-evy-ahe-shun
Sentence: "I'll give you some pills for your psychoverspendilleviation, but if all else fails i'll have to take your wallet.
Etymology: Psychological + Over + Spend + alleviation
Anxibingety
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: ang-zi-binj-E-tee
Sentence: Roxy used shopping as a quick fix for the blues. Each spurgisode was squandipitious:whenever she saw for sale something stromboid, she had to buy it to slake her anxibingety. Also her squandapathy, whilst at times an all consuming passion, became afterwards a pangfull prodigall, with terrifying squandread.
Etymology: Anxibingety:(anxiety+binge)"anxiety for binge-buying). Prodigall(prodigal+gall)"vexed by waste." Squandapathy:"indifferent to waste."
Depressplurge
Created by: sparkles510
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Renee will depressplurge after every bad relationship.
Etymology:
Pelfesteem
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: pelf + esteem
Sentence: Sure, the new 452" Plasma was expensive, but I was feeling low and needed some pelfesteem.
Etymology: No doubt you've heard of self-esteem? Well then.
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COMMENTS:
What does "pelf" mean? - mplsbohemian, 2007-08-20: 20:07:00
"pelf" means wealth or goods, especially those ill-gotten. - Osomatic, 2007-08-21: 13:05:00
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