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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.
Verboticisms
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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
Dootheadcriptic
Created by: x2talk
Pronunciation: sht-head-criptic
Sentence: Damn dog, you didnt buy anything for her? Thats a shtheadcriptic thing to do.
Etymology:
Onpurpose
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: on purpose
Sentence: I dit it not onpurpose
Etymology: purpose as in deliberate.
Birthdaze
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bərθdāz
Sentence: Brenda has a mind like a steel trap. She can remember every day of her life in vivid detail. Where other people have an internal clock, she has an internal calendar. She can call up any of her friend*s anniversaries, birthdays or graduation dates. She can tell you the date that each of her siblings each lost each of their baby teeth. What she can*t do is turn any of that memory power into action. As dates roll by she is in an anniversary stupor, a birthdaze, never once getting so much as a card for anyone she knows. She loves the phrase **It*s the thought that counts** because that*s all she ever has.
Etymology: birthday (the annual anniversary of the day on which a person was born, typically treated as an occasion for celebration and present-giving) + daze (unable to think or react properly; stupefy; bewilder)
Theoretigift
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: theo;rat;i;gift
Sentence: forgetogift or theoretigift - this was not a question.
Etymology: theoretic gift
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)
Sentimentencing
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: sent-i/ment/en/sing
Sentence: Yeah - well it's really all about the sentiment not the gift right so I'm sentimentencing your birthday right now - and I did get you that diamondlike stud for your ear once and diamonds are ...like...forever
Etymology: sentiment + sentence
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COMMENTS:
3 weeks sleeping on the couch is the sentence for sentimencing - petaj, 2007-04-06: 19:37:00
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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
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)
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
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