{"id":243,"date":"2007-12-21T13:42:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T17:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2007-12-21T13:42:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T17:42:26","slug":"apparently-santa-has-been-into-the-festive-spirits-all-day-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Apparently, Santa has been into the festive spirits all day long."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v. intr.<\/em>, To prepare for holiday events where you must chat with irritating co-workers or nagging relatives, by consuming just enough alcohol to make you feel &#8220;relaxed&#8221;. <em>n.<\/em>, A person who arrives at a party pre-inebriated.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/festive.gif\" alt=\"Apparently, Santa has been into the festive spirits all day long.\" height=\"400\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Merrynaded<\/strong>:  \/<em>mehr-ree-nayd-ed<\/em>\/ (True story): My wife and I and a friend attended a champagne tasting, then went home and sampled some single malt scotch and then proceeded to the Christmas party already merrynaded. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Merry + (Mari)naded <em>Created by:<\/em> MrDave2176.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Merrynaded:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Jabberwocky\">Jabberwocky<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-12-18: 14:12:00<\/em><br \/>\nfunny<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=libertybelle\">libertybelle<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-12-18: 14:50:00<\/em><br \/>\nPositively brilliant word!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-12-18: 16:03:00<\/em><br \/>\nSounds like you were on a merry-go-round. Great word, DAVE !<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Prebriate<\/strong>:  \/<em>pre-bree-ate    <\/em>\/ I prebriate for all staff functions when I know the toxic managers are going to show up. Three, or four rye and ginger ales are sufficient for my prebriation to function with these morons. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  pre + prior + inebriate <em>Created by:<\/em> Stevenson0.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Prebriate:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-12-18: 16:13:00<\/em><br \/>\nRyebuck!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Pretoxicate<\/strong>:  \/<em>pre-tox-uh-cate<\/em>\/ The only way Marsha could get through Christmas with her family was to completely pretoxicate herself into a totally medicated state. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  pre=before intoxicate=to make drunk <em>Created by:<\/em> Redrover.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Pretoxicate:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Mustang\">Mustang<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-12-18: 19:00:00<\/em><br \/>\nExcellent!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Putrumintumtum<\/strong>:  \/<em>poot-rum-in-tum-tum<\/em>\/ When he received his invitation to the Christmas lunch he took the little drummer boy&#8217;s advice and putrumintumtum. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  put + rum + tum (as in tummy) + pa rum pum pum pum <em>Created by:<\/em> Jabberwocky.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Putrumintumtum:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=libertybelle\">libertybelle<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-12-18: 10:36:00<\/em><br \/>\nHysterical!!!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-12-18: 16:17:00<\/em><br \/>\nI need to ruminate on this one! Very clever and offbeat!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=festive\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=festive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative,<\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/\/\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Definition Comments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Verbotomy\">Verbotomy<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <em>2007-12-18: 03:37:00<\/em><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s definition was suggested by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=yellowbird\"><strong>yellowbird<\/strong><\/a> Thank you yellowbird ~ James<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: v. intr., To prepare for holiday events where you must chat with irritating co-workers or nagging relatives, by consuming just enough alcohol to make you feel &#8220;relaxed&#8221;. n., A person who arrives at a party pre-inebriated. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Merrynaded: \/mehr-ree-nayd-ed\/ (True story): My wife and I and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=243\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apparently, Santa has been into the festive spirits all day long.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[30,90,92,93,37,89,91,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"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=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}