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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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Negligentimental
Created by: Sharpedgeshurt
Pronunciation: Negg-leh-jent-teh-mehn-tull
Sentence: Bruce is a negligentimental husband, remembering his loving wife's birthdays and anniversaries while being unwilling to give her even a thoughtless gift for the occassions.
Etymology: negligent (lazily careless) + sentimental (a thought influenced by or proceeding from feeling or emotion)
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COMMENTS:
cute! But sad... - wordmeister, 2007-04-08: 10:48:00
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Comissmemorate
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: com-miss-MEM-o-rate
Sentence: Benny comissmemorated my birthday this year by organising a special surprise -- a beautifully wrapped, yet empty box.
Etymology: commemorate (to remember a significant event with a ceremony) + miss (to fail -and also the middle of the word omission) + commiserate (sympathize with - what my girlfriends will do when I tell them about Benny the rat)
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COMMENTS:
how cruel - Benny is a rat - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-06: 16:09:00
Great word. Ever heard of the (cheap fete classic) game "splat-a-rat"? I'd try it. - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-06: 18:12:00
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Dootheadcriptic
Created by: x2talk
Pronunciation: sht-head-criptic
Sentence: Damn dog, you didnt buy anything for her? Thats a shtheadcriptic thing to do.
Etymology:
Thinket
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: think-eht
Sentence: My husband thought about getting me a trinket for my birthday, but all I ended up getting was a thinket. Perhaps he got fuggitful or forgiftful, because later he got doghousen syndrome.
Etymology: trinket, think
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COMMENTS:
I might actually use this one in real life. - iwasatripwire, 2007-04-06: 13:59:00
Can the sympoms of doghousen syndrome be eased by the sufferer sleeping on the sofa, or indeed in the doghouse? - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-06: 15:20:00
*symptoms - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-06: 15:20:00
I like sympoms better. Pays homage to The Simpsons and celebrates this dohccasion. And "The Couch" brings back such bad memories for my boyfriend that he'd prefer to sleep on my f.u.ton. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-06: 18:30:00
Ignore his f.u.tile excuses. Tell him you want your birthday celebelated. - petaj, 2007-04-06: 19:57:00
Oooo, celebelate is a GREAT word! - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-07: 06:03:00
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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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Nommemorate
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: no-MEM-oh-rate
Sentence: Andy believed in setting a proper tone of nommemoration early in a relationship. "If you get her flowers on her birthday, she'll expect them all the dang time..." was his philosophy.
Etymology: from the Eskimo "nome", meaning cold, and the slavic "memonik", meaning 'sleep on the couch"
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COMMENTS:
HA! Love the etymology! - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-06: 07:09:00
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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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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)
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