{"id":829,"date":"2009-12-29T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=829"},"modified":"2009-12-29T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T17:00:05","slug":"xcessmas-when-am-i-going-to-get-a-real-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"Xcessmas: When am I going to get a real holiday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em>, To run out of batteries during the holidays, especially on Christmas morning when all the kids and half the adults are screaming for their new toys. <em>n.<\/em>, A battery or personal energy shortage created by over-consumption.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/holiday.gif\" alt=\"When am I going to get a real holiday?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xcessmas<\/strong>:  \/<em>eksesm\u00c9\u2122s<\/em>\/ Kris finally had enough of Xcessmas and collapsed into his Lazyboy to sleep for a week. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  excess (an amount of something that is more than necessary, permitted, or desirable) + Xmas (shortened version of Christmas) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Xcessmas:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-12-25: 10:07:00<\/em> <br \/>Sounds like a good idea!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Celleighride<\/strong>:  \/<em>sell ay ryde<\/em>\/ It was time for the annual Christmas Celleighride.  It became evident when the carol singing slightly changed.  They subtlely sang Watt Child Is This?; I&#8217;ll be ohm for Christmas;etc. Their batteries were losing power and only a celleighride to the local 7-11,  the only shop open on this day, to get AA, AAA, C, D cell batteries would do. Poor Nick, he needed recharged himself, but to keep the peace, he&#8217;d make the trip and drag his exhausted self through the winter&#8217;s exhaust.  Their annual celebration always became a cellebration.  Joule have a Blue Christmas without them! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Cell (a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction) &amp; Sleigh Ride (Popular Christmas Song and activity outdoors) Seligh also rhymes with slay (to kill something, like a battery)&#8217; Joule (a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second). <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Festique<\/strong>:  \/<em>fest-teeg<\/em>\/ Festigue usually sets in about noon on Christmas Eve because of all the shopping and partying the last two weeks. I&#8217;m just too tired to enjoy the holiday.<\/p>\n<p> <em>Etymology:<\/em>  festive + fatigue<br \/>\n <em>Created by:<\/em> Stevenson0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Xmashausted<\/strong>:  \/<em>ex-mas-aus-ted<\/em>\/ By 10:00pm Christmas Eve my energy supply was totally xmashausted along with my batteries, cookies, dip and my happy holiday feeling, and I was ready to toss everyone out of the house so I could go to bed. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  xmas: shortened form of the word Christmas often mispronounsed as ex-mas + exhausted: to wear out completely; to drain resourses <em>Created by:<\/em> mrskellyscl.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=holiday\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=holiday<\/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: v., To run out of batteries during the holidays, especially on Christmas morning when all the kids and half the adults are screaming for their new toys. n., A battery or personal energy shortage created by over-consumption. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Xcessmas: \/eksesm\u00c9\u2122s\/ Kris finally had enough of Xcessmas and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=829\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Xcessmas: When am I going to get a real holiday?<\/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\/829"}],"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=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}