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DEFINITION: v. To remember those special personal events, like your spouse's birthday, or your wedding anniversary, while nevertheless forgetting to take appropriate action, like getting a gift, or a card, or flowers. n. A gift that was thought of, but not purchased.
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Acentminded
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: A-suhnt-mahyn-did
Sentence: Paul had listened carefully to his girlfriend over the last year. He knew her shoe size, favorite color and the designer brand she wanted. He was just too acentminded to pull the trigger on the purchase, so he went with the standby bow around his genitals.
Etymology: A Cent - Absentminded
Disregive
Created by: Ellemorpheus
Pronunciation: Dis-re-give
Sentence: How could she disregive me like that? Does she even care?
Etymology: Dis-not re-remember give-to give
Selecadeaumemoirism
Created by: Jaxies
Pronunciation: /seh-lek-a-doh-mem-wah-ism/
Sentence: "Mandy was in the bathroom crying because of Adam's selecadeumemoirism - their 2 week anniversary and he had failed to get her anything."
Etymology: Select + cadeaux (FR.) + memoir (FR.) + ism
Presentense
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: prez sen tens
Sentence: The minute she walked in the door after work, Kelly had the feeling of presentense. The reason was that although she had intended to get Wesley a birthday gift, the truth was she clean forgot about it. She rallied by saying that it was out in her car. She ran out to Walmart and was able to grab him something. He was so willing to believe her that he failed to notice it took her an hour to bring in it from her car.
Etymology: Present (gift) & Tense (uneasy or nervous or anxious) & Wordplay on Present tense (a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking)
Anniverlaze
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: an ee ver laze
Sentence: Jane was a complete aniverlaze always avoiding getting anyone anything for any event.
Etymology: from lazy and anniversary.
Disselebrate
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: diss + el + eh + brate
Sentence: Hey, I knew it was your anniversary, I just chose to disselebrate it.
Etymology: diss + celebrate
Dissendowment
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: diss-in-dow-ment
Sentence: Jill was underwhelmed with the dissendowment David gave her for her birthday
Etymology: diss, as in to disrespect or shun/ endowment, as in gift
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COMMENTS:
Followed by disembowelment. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-06: 11:02:00
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Indifferecall
Created by: PythianHabenero
Pronunciation: in.diff.uh.re.call.
Sentence: Emily indifferecalled her boyfriend's birthday every year without fail.
Etymology: indifferent + recall
Vaporversary
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: vay-per-ver-sary
Sentence: Rachel turned Doug's birthday into a vaporversary because, as usual, she got him nothing.
Etymology: portmanteau of "vapor" and "anniversary"
Onpurpose
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: on purpose
Sentence: I dit it not onpurpose
Etymology: purpose as in deliberate.
Comments:
This definition is based on a fictional event. The fact that my dear and loving partner celebrated her birthday yesterday, is not related to this definition in anyway whatsoever. It is simply a coincidence. And, may I repeat, I did not forget her birthday. In fact, I thought of many gifts which I could have easily purchased for her. Thank you. ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-04-06: 08:13:00
So your partner got "Jamesed"?
I believe she was verbotomized. And I don't think she was too pleased with the procedure. ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-04-06: 11:12:00
That bad, huh? Well, an iron makes a useful gift, as it is the perfect size, shape, and weight to make good contact with the forgifter's cranium.
Forgifter? What a wonderful merger of the words "foresight" and "gift". Clearly, I should be be forgiftgiven.
purpleartichokes - 2007-04-06: 15:31:00
Perhaps a bottle of fine whine with some aged cheesy excuses might work.
No doubt you have been celeberated for exploiting the comissmemoration for the benegift of the verbotomy crowd. Maybe a box of shocklates would help.
Or may be a celebelation will suffice.
Thank you for your kind thoughtdiscounts. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by wordmeister. Thank you wordmeister. ~ James