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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.

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Psychoverspendilleviation

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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

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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

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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

petaj 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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Therapurchase

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: THEHR-uh-per-chuhs

Sentence: A joint chequing account proved disastrous for Alex, as his girlfriend therapurchased her way through the relationship, and on to the breakup.

Etymology: therapy + purchase

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COMMENTS:

I'll buy that one - galwaywegian, 2007-08-21: 05:37:00

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Shopery

Created by: leeannhamers

Pronunciation: sh-op-or-ee

Sentence: i had a hard day at work i need some shopery.

Etymology: shop/therapy

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Storegasm

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: stoor gasem

Sentence: just becouse she needed regular storgasms didn't make her a hermesexual

Etymology: store orgasm.

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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)

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Byoncreditfixation

Created by: realnutty01

Pronunciation: Bi-on-cred-it-fix-a-shon

Sentence: He got his divorce on the grounds she had byoncreditfixation and he had no money left.

Etymology:

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Resplurgerate

petaj

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)

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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."

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