DEFINITION: n., A person so enamored with the holidays that they don’t just deck their halls and home, but they also decorate their car, their cubicle, their pets, and themselves. v. tr., To obsessively decorate according to seasonal holidays.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Tinselclown: /tinsəlkloun/ Gloria is such a tinselclown. She rarely has enough decorations for her Christmas tree because she is wearing most of them starting the day after Thanksgiving. Others call it Black Friday. She calls it Sparkle Friday. You should see her at Easter. Etymology: tinsel (a form of decoration consisting of thin strips of shiny metal foil) + clown (a comical, silly, playful person) Derivative of Tinseltown (Hollywood, or the superficially glamorous world it represents) Created by: artr.
Comments on Tinselclown:
silveryaspen, 2008-12-09: 11:19:00
Yule (you’ll) log in warmth and laughter with this excellent verbotomyGuest, 2008-12-09: 13:52:00
Funny stuff!
Bauballer: /Bah ball er/ Miss L Toe, the lady snowman loved Christmas. She had a ball (well actually, she had three very nice ones) buying lots of Christmas balls.
She used them for buttons instead of lumps of coal, and even for her eyes
and nose. Miss L Toe put them on the trees, hung them from the street lights, car antennas, any where to please. She pinned them on the jackets of all who came to see her, too. She was the greatest bauballer of all Etymology: BAUBLE, BALL, ALL, ER Bauble – synonym for decoration. Ball – round Christmas ornaments, also means to have fun as in have a ball (and any sexual connotations I leave to your imaginations). All – everthing and everyone as in where she put them. Er – a suffix meaning somebody who performs a particular action. Created by: silveryaspen.
Ornamaximental: /or – nah – max – e – men – tal/ As I drove through the snowy, picturesque streets of my home town, coming back to spend the holidays with the family, I turned the corner and could see my childhood home. My mom had gone all ornamaximental again. Our home cast a halo of light which could be seen over the top of the hill. There must have been 20,000 lights everywhere, inluding trees, bushes, lawn decorations and even figurines on the roof. It was the same way when I was a kid. Our house glowed for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Easter, July 4th and sometimes even Valentine’s Day. Etymology: This word has several other words incorporated. Ornamental has maxi inside of it. Also, ornate and ornament are prefixes. In the middle are max, maximum. Also as a suffix, mental can be added to signify someone who is a bit “over the top”. Ornate (elaborately ornamented, often to excess; flashy, flowery or showy) Ornament, Ornamental (a decoration, serving the purpose of decoration or beauty ) + Maximum (the largest possible quantity) + Mental (Mind, the collective aspects of intellect and consciousness, affected by a disorder of the mind) Created by: mweinmann.
Comments on Ornamaximental:
silveryaspen, 2008-12-09: 11:04:00
Very nice etymology, especially the mentality of it all.Nosila, 2008-12-09: 23:15:00
Maximental sentimental! Great word
Jinglehells: /Jingle hells/ On my way to work,
Just a normal day.
Here we go again…
Trinkets in the way!
Ditsy colleagues hang,
Tinsel by the score.
Don’t they realise we are not children anymore?
OH! … Etymology: Jingle Bells. Everyone sing along! Created by: emdeejay.
Comments on Jinglehells:
petaj, 2008-12-10: 05:50:00
you have a touch of the bah humbugs there!
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