Verboticisms

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: yool-EE-bree-eyt

Sentence: At first, Bob yulebriated with a sublime sparkle; only, in the end, to stumble and tumble into a 'silent night' of mistlethroes and noelethargy.

Etymology: YULE (OE: Christmas) & EBRIATE: to sparkle with a emotion + to make or be drunk - and all its' permutations, esp staying upright.

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /slahn'-tuh-kawzd/

Sentence: The Christmas tree was hopelessly slantacaused, looking like it was about to fallalalala, but we soon had bigger problems to worry about when Uncle Frank suddenly swooned, hiccupped, and dropped like a missletoe, cracking his Eggnoggin on the mantel.

Etymology: slant - at an oblique angle; aslant (from Middle English, slenten) + Santa-claus (from Dutch, Sinterklaas) + cause[d] - the reason for a condition or result (from Latin, causa)

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COMMENTS:

Perhaps Uncle Frank, after the knock on his 'eggnoggin' will get mental blocks for Christmas! Good word and, as always, thorough etymology! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-10: 05:06:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: CHRIS-muhs-care-ee-ling

Sentence: Nicholas was full of good cheer, filled with Christmas dinner and so bubbly from so much spiked egg nog that he spent most of the evening Christmascareeling and staggering about while all those about him were merely singing and laughing.

Etymology: Blend of Christmas, Caroling, and Reeling (To stagger, lurch, or sway, as from drunkenness)

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COMMENTS:

there were a few of those at our office Christmas party - Jabberwocky, 2008-12-15: 11:40:00

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: cockedlymerry ... kok-ed-lee-mer-ree

Sentence: My cockedlymerry family put up a cockedly merry tree.

Etymology: cockedlymerry: cocked meaning tilted or at an angle. ly meaning like. merry meaning happy like you get during the Christmas holidays.

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: tip-sell

Sentence: It seemed our 8 foot inflatable Santa Clause was full of tipsel, as he even managed to droop over despite the bungee cords wrapping him to the banister. No more egg nog and cookies for him!!

Etymology: tip + tinsel

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Created by: Ismelstar

Pronunciation: [krip-uhld dik-ee]

Sentence: Our little apartment was blessed with high ceilings, meaning the tall, skinny eight-foot Christmas tree we lugged up four flights would be just perfect. Unfortunately, the slender, protruding crown crippledickied as soon as it was topped with our 3 lb star.

Etymology: A mash up of 'crippled', anything that is impaired or flawed and 'dickey', a contraction of doohickey, meaning a gadget, dingus, or thingumbob.

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COMMENTS:

Cute word and story - Nosila, 2008-12-15: 19:55:00

Hahaha. good one. - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 01:05:00

Fantastic - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-17: 04:06:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: tip - see - tree

Sentence: Marge was not sure if it was because she had been drinking for several hours or whether the tree Scott had brought home was actually leaning. The eggnog had certainly gone to her head but she kept thinking they were going to have a tipsytree this year.

Etymology: Tips (leans or topples)and Tipsy (unstable and prone to tip as if intoxicated) + Tree

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Created by: drkesper

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: kriss sidd funk shun

Sentence: It was a case of "hohoho to nohoho as the tree suffered from the annual bout of Chrisdisfunction, due to the self inoculation by the erector against the cold by hipflask as he queued in the snow for the aforementioned tree.

Etymology: christmas, disfunction

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: tah-nuh n-bomd

Sentence: Jerry could not remember the words to "Oh Cristmas Tree" because he was completely tannenbombed.

Etymology: Tannenbaum (Christmas Tree) + bombed (completely intoxicated; drunk)

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