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DEFINITION: n., A Christmas tree, ornament or caroler that, no matter how it is tied, tethered and tilted, refuses to stay upright. v., To be so full of Christmas cheer that you simply sparkle, twinkle and tip over.
Verboticisms
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Crippledickey
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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Slantacaused
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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Christmasculated
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: kris/mas/kyuh/leyt/ed
Sentence: During our annual neigbourhood caroling, John's six eggnog and rum completely christmasculated him and it took two carolers to drag him around from house to house.
Etymology: Christmas + emasculated (to be deprived of strength, or vigor; to be weakened) To deprive of strength or vigor; weaken
Decoranot
Created by: jajsr
Pronunciation: Deck-or-not
Sentence: No matter how sturdy their tree was, Jim's favorite Christmas ornament was a decoranot. It weighed five pounds and would always make his tree lean to the right.
Etymology: "Decora" from decorate and "Not"
Everlean
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: evərlēn
Sentence: Horace is no good at picking Christmas trees. No matter how good it looked in the lot, every tree he took home was an everlean. Somewhere between the tree lot and home the trunk would develop a bend. A few years ago he thought he could dupe the fates by buying an artificial tree. No such luck. Somehow it was damaged in transit and it too refused to stand upright.
Etymology: ever (at all times; always)+ lean (be in or move into a sloping position)
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COMMENTS:
But my dad's name isn't Horace. He was also great at finding trees with major bare spots. - wayoffcenter, 2008-12-15: 04:49:00
Nice one! My vote #1 for you. - logarithm, 2008-12-15: 09:34:00
Nice - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-17: 04:06:00
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Shimmeringdrop
Created by: gemmgemms
Pronunciation: shi-mer-ing-da-rawp
Sentence: That man is quite the shimmeringdrop at the moment, he's had so much booze he's liable to flop like a Christmas pancake.
Etymology: shimmering:out of focus ofr sparkly + drop:to fall
Careeling
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ca - REEL -ing
Sentence: The 'special' eggnog that Delbert had consumed had him careeling...forgetting the words to the Carols and barely able to remain standing.
Etymology: Caroling + reeling
Christmess
Created by: Maxine
Pronunciation: 'kris mes
Sentence: Look at that tree. What a Christmess! Say, you're not looking too well either. Better take a break, or you might Christmess before you know it.
Etymology: Christ + mess, as in "Christ, what a mess." Christmas, as in "The relatives are over and the kids are crazy. Christ, what a mess."
Rumatumdum
Created by: looseball
Pronunciation: rum-a-tum-dum
Sentence: He looks rumatumdum keep him away from the eggnog or nothing will stand strait in this house.
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes Thank you purpleartichokes ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes. Thank you purpleartichokes. ~ James