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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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Negligift
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: neg-li-gift
Sentence: Marsha tried to excuse her negligift by saying "It's the thought that counts," but no one would buy it, especially her son Evan who was turning seven.
Etymology: negligence: a failure to act either willfully or through a lack of concern + gift: present
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COMMENTS:
Negliexcellence - Nosila, 2009-10-23: 22:44:00
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Oblivicious
Created by: ewigkeit
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Oblivo, l. "to forget" and Vitiosus, l. "faulty, corrupt".
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:
Neglibrate
Created by: riflesandkids74
Pronunciation: neh-glih-brayt
Sentence: I tried to explain to Carie that i didn't intend to neglibrate her dog's 3rd birthday, but she would no longer have it, and she ran off with Lu-Lu under her arm.
Etymology: neglect and celibrate
Theoretigift
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: theo;rat;i;gift
Sentence: forgetogift or theoretigift - this was not a question.
Etymology: theoretic gift
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)
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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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