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DEFINITION: n., 1. A pine needle infestation, common during and after the holiday season. 2. Prickly Christmas guests who will not leave and cannot be cleaned up. v., To fall down during a holiday party and hide under a rug.
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Needlepeedle
Created by: nicky
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Needlepeedle happens all over the house unless you give the Christmas tree a good shake before taking it out to the brush pile
Etymology: needle, pee
Pinecushion
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: pine/kushun
Sentence: I felt like a Christmas pinecushion as I fumbled trying to plug in the lights.
Etymology: pincushion + pine
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COMMENTS:
Love it! - purpleartichokes, 2007-12-17: 18:04:00
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Barbedlier
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: barbd-lie-uh
Sentence: 'Beware the barbedlier on the sofa', Marge whispered to her husband as she passed him in the doorway. 'Your friend Tom had to stay for a week the last time he was this sozzled'.
Etymology: barbed wire + lier (one who lies down)
Needelinquents
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: nēdiˈli ng kwənts
Sentence: Joyce didn*t realize when she invited a young tree into her home for the holidays that she was also inviting in needelinquents. These little hooligans had no respect for their elders and made every effort to separate themselves from the bough. They would lodge themselves in the fiber of the carpet and stab passersby with their tiny daggers at every opportunity. Even Hoover, the meanest thug Joyce knew had trouble dislodging these troublemakers. Just when she thought they were gone, she*d find more.
Etymology: needle (the adult leaves of a conifer) + delinquent (typically of a young person or that person*s behavior showing or characterized by a tendency to commit crime, particularly minor crime)
Pinestilence
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: pine/stil/ence
Sentence: The pinestilence invades our home every Christmas season and takes months to rid the house of this dreaded needle.
Etymology: pine + pestilence (a pernicious, evil influence, or agent)
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COMMENTS:
don't pine about it! - Nosila, 2009-12-22: 01:13:00
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Conifirmentation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kon if fer men tay shun
Sentence: It started the moment the Christmas Tree and the In-laws had arrived at the same time, a week before Christmas. The conifirmentation process. Tree needles everywhere and verbal needles about the food, the decor, the drinks, the gift choices, etc. At least the fir needles knew when to depart the host branch, unlike the In-laws, who thought that all could benefit from their "suggestions" and constructive criticism. "Next Year", she said to her husband, "We buy the air tickets for them and make sure that they are only here for a few days, not the current one month long visit!" Houseguests, as they say, are like fish...after a few days they start to smell.
Etymology: Conifer (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones) & Fir (any of various evergreen trees of the genus Abies; often used for Christmas Trees) & Fermentation ( a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol;be in an agitated or excited state;go sour or spoil)
Carpettunnelsyndrome
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: car-pet-ton-nul-sin-drum
Sentence: Every December, my living room rug gets carpettunnelsyndrome from the tree needles. The rug rasps eventually get vacuumed up or compost by June.
Etymology: carpal tunnel syndrome, carpet, tunnel
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COMMENTS:
Superb! - Mustang, 2007-12-17: 06:09:00
ouch - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-17: 13:37:00
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Nevergreenuisance
Created by: Redrover
Pronunciation: never+gree+nuisance
Sentence: This was absolutely the last Christmas that Nancy and Jason were going to spend the entire month of December cleaning up after either their nevergreenuisance tree or Jason's bratty nephews.
Etymology: nevergreen = trees that are in the midst of their death throes while still on the tree lot. Nuisance = obnoxious relatives
Yulegibbons
Created by: jmotsch
Pronunciation: Yewl gibbins
Sentence: Janice had been fervently combating the yulegibbons since January.
Etymology:
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram Thank you remistram ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
dimatehtunov - 2018-12-21: 21:54:00
good ivning .