{"id":1096,"date":"2010-12-15T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2010-12-15T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T17:00:12","slug":"domindecorate-isnt-it-a-bit-early-to-be-wearing-christmas-decorations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"Domindecorate: Isn&#8217;t it a bit early to be wearing Christmas decorations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em>, A person so enamored with the holidays that they don&#8217;t just deck their halls and home, but they also decorate their car, their cubicle, their pets, and themselves. <em>v.<\/em>, To obsessively decorate according to seasonal holidays.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/decorate.gif\" alt=\"Isn't it a bit early to be wearing Christmas decorations?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Domindecorate<\/strong>:  \/<em>dom-inn-deck-or-ate<\/em>\/ He could barely move when he walked into the house. She domindecorated so much so that the walls, floors and ceiling where completely covered with Yuletide &#8220;kitsch&#8221;, it was like a Christmas padded cell.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  dominate (to permeate or to occupy a commanding or elevated position) + decorate (to furnish or adorn with something ornamental) <em>Created by:<\/em> remistram.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wornament<\/strong>:  \/<em>worn a ment<\/em>\/ Mary-Chris Mass has for obvious reasons become obsessed with festooning herself, her car, her house and her work space with Christmas decorations. Her efforts to wornament herself, family and colleages has actually paid off. They find it easier to conform to her wishes than to resist. In fact they carry the theme year-round. The office is now painted red and green and holly, ivy, poinsettias and mistletoe grow in the office atrium. Because her office is a call centre conducting market research, the building is now being called the North Poll! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Worn (past participle of wear;something adorning oneself) &amp; Ornament (v. to make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.)<\/p>\n<p> <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hollydaze<\/strong>:  \/<em>h\u00c3\u00a4l\u00c4\u201cd\u00c4\u0081z<\/em>\/ Becky believes in the organic lifestyle. With Christmas coming she has decided to festoon a festive vest with holly leaves. Nothing synthetic for her. No plastic, no satin. Becky is in a hollydaze. Maybe it is an effect of the season. Maybe it is the blood loss caused by her prickly apparel. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  holly (a widely distributed shrub, typically having prickly dark green leaves, small white flowers, and red berries) + daze (make someone unable to think or react properly) play on Holidays <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Celebraddict<\/strong>:  \/<em>Noun: seh-leh-brA-dikt<br \/>\nVerb: seh-leh-bruh-dIkt<\/em>\/ Noun: The celebraddict forbade the others from approaching the Christmas tree &#8211; she alone knew where the baubles should hang.<br \/>\nVerb: Her compulsion was such that she took tinsel everywhere, needing even to temporarily celebraddict her seat on the bus. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Celebrate + Addict <em>Created by:<\/em> Carla.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=decorate\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=decorate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: n., A person so enamored with the holidays that they don&#8217;t just deck their halls and home, but they also decorate their car, their cubicle, their pets, and themselves. v., To obsessively decorate according to seasonal holidays. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Domindecorate: \/dom-inn-deck-or-ate\/ He could barely move when he walked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1096\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Domindecorate: Isn&#8217;t it a bit early to be wearing Christmas decorations?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}