DEFINITION: To purchase a bauble, article of clothing, or major appliance, in order to alleviate anxiety or other psychological stress. Often leads to overspending.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Buypolar: /bye-pohl-ar/ Her buypolar personality was responsible for her extravagant spending habits. Etymology: buy + bi-polar Created by: Stevenson0.
Therapurchase: /THEHR-uh-per-chuhs/ 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 Created by: mplsbohemian.
Anxibingety: /ang-zi-binj-E-tee/ 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.” Created by: OZZIEBOB.
Storegasm: /stoor gasem/ just becouse she needed regular storgasms didn’t make her a hermesexual Etymology: store orgasm. Created by: galwaywegian.
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