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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.
Verboticisms
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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
Pinemyne
Created by: looseball
Pronunciation: pine+myne
Sentence: Quik get the sweeper and suck up that pinemyne before we smoke this weed and lose our vision.
Etymology:
Pernoydles
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: PURR-noy-dulls
Sentence: Barbara O'Reilly and Keith attempted to remove the PERNOYDLES which spread thru the house like invasive Zebra Mussels, crowding out the native dustballs. Each holiday season, the PERNOYDLES from down the street always stayed until the last dregs of mead were consumed, and the last tasteless limerick recited. During the evening, one guest got a severe attack of the PERNOYDLES and couldn't be located for hours. Last year, we had to drag them out of the sewers and send a few home by taxicab. PERNOYDLES - a must to avoid.
Etymology: PERsistent+anNOY+neeDLES=PERNOYDLES....PERSISTENT:existing for a long or longer than usual holiday time or continuously,retained beyond the usual jolly period,degraded only slowly by the environment;Latin persistent-, persistens, present participle of persistere.....ANNOY:to disturb or irritate especially by repeated pseudo-festive acts or remarks,Middle English anoien, from Anglo-French anuier, ennoier, from Late Latin inodiare to make loathsome, from Latin in + odium hatred .....NEEDLES: a needle-shaped leaf,a slender pointed object resembling a needle,to harass or mock cruelly, to intentionally irritate ;Middle English nedle, from Old English nǣdl; akin to Old High German nādala needle, nājan to sew, Latin nēre to spin, Greek nēn.
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COMMENTS:
Linguistically detailed and PERcise. A PERleasure to PERuse! - dochanne, 2008-12-18: 01:35:00
OH HO! Nice etymology. Pernod (liquor) and needles was what first came to mind. - silveryaspen, 2008-12-18: 02:48:00
Thank you. An absinthesis from the wee hours of the morning. :) - metrohumanx, 2008-12-18: 17:32:00
If you want to REALLY laugh, check out the toys at goblertoys.com: - metrohumanx, 2008-12-18: 17:59:00
http://goblertoys.com/ - metrohumanx, 2008-12-18: 18:00:00
Crowding out the native dustballs, how pernicious! PERfect! - Nosila, 2008-12-18: 20:38:00
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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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Treedebris
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Tree - de - bree
Sentence: Norman and Leona decided to have an artificial Christmas tree next year after seeing the extraordinary amout of treedebris this year's tree had shed.
Etymology: Tree + debris
Efirafter
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ef ir af ter
Sentence: Once upon a time there was a prince and princess who made the mistake of getting a real tree on their first Christmas together. One of the things that keeps them together still is finding and vacuuming tree needles,all year long, happily efirafter.
Etymology: Everafter (from now on, to eternity) & Fir (any of various evergreen trees)
Pestaclaus
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: PEST-tuh-klawz
Sentence: When Bob hadn't left Christmas celebrations at the home of Roxie's parents by New Year's day, her family decided that it was time to look for ways to kinstirpate this perdurable pestaclaus.
Etymology: PESTACLAUS: blend of pest & Santa Claus. KINSTIRPATE: (kin & extirpate)-not my word: source??
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-17: 13:36:00
I'm a fan of Kinstirpate, but maybe it should be (kin + constipate), i.e. like when you can get the kin-folk to leave, your house is kinstirpated. - Tigger, 2007-12-17: 23:34:00
Ah, I meant "like when you _can't_ get the kin-folk to leave..." - Tigger, 2007-12-17: 23:36:00
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Porcupinetree
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: pôrkyəpīntrē
Sentence: Why is it that the needles from the porcupinetree seem to actively burrow into the carpet like so many quill moles.
Etymology: porcupine (a large rodent with defensive spines or quills on the body and tail) pine tree (an evergreen coniferous tree that has clusters of long needle-shaped leaves)
Treebris
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: tree-BREE
Sentence: Wilfred and Nancy scrapped plans for any natural Christmas trees in the future after seeing and having to clean up the extraordinary layer of treebris this year's tree had shed.
Etymology: Blend of tree and debris
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COMMENTS:
nice combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-12-18: 14:48:00
Nice and succinct. Immediately understood. - dochanne, 2008-12-18: 21:55:00
Love it. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-19: 04:15:00
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Yulebesorry
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: yool bee sor ee
Sentence: The yulebesorry is one of the greater household pets, but at least it is only spotted during Late December and early January, unlike its' cousin the toldyaso
Etymology: yule, you'll be sorry
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COMMENTS:
berryberrysorry - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-17: 13:39:00
Very good! - tonii, 2007-12-17: 22:51:00
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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 .