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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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Crassternation
Created by: efreet69
Pronunciation: krass-tur-NA-shun
Sentence: He is so cheap when it comes to gift buying; he shows the ultimate in crassternation.
Etymology:
Quasipathy
Created by: zrotv
Pronunciation: kwā-zĭp'əth-ē
Sentence: Its not that I don't care about special days. I have quasipathy about the situation. Sure, acknowledgment might be in order, but blathering celebration seems a bit much. (also: quasipathetic)
Etymology: quasi ('To some degree') + pathos ('feeling'... as in sympathy or empathy)
Dootheadcriptic
Created by: x2talk
Pronunciation: sht-head-criptic
Sentence: Damn dog, you didnt buy anything for her? Thats a shtheadcriptic thing to do.
Etymology:
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)
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
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"
Circumsent
Created by: pinwheel
Pronunciation: sir/cum/sent
Sentence: Every year Stephen would circumsent Jane's birthday by pretending he had thought she didn't wish to be reminded of being a year older.
Etymology: circumvent + sent
Presentashun
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: prez un tay shunnn
Sentence: It wasn't the anniversary presentashun that bothered him, it was the look in her eye when she told him "it's the thought that counts"
Etymology: presentation, shun
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COMMENTS:
What a celebrashun! - Nosila, 2009-10-23: 22:44:00
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Uhohcasion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: uh o kay sjun
Sentence: Being that Noel's birthday is on Dec.25, no one remembers to get him a birthday present. His uhohccasion is lumped in with the Christmas celebrations and people seldom remember to get him a separate birthday gift.
Etymology: Uh oh (Oops!)(Used to express acknowledgement of a blunder, or mistake) & Occasion (event, milestone,celebration)
Distake
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: distāk
Sentence: When Joan didn’t buy a birthday gift for her mother-in-law she realized that she had made a huge distake.
Etymology: dis (act or speak in a disrespectful way) + mistake (an action or judgment that is misguided or wrong) + take (in baseball; to allow a pitch to go by without attempting to hit the ball)
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