Vote for the best verboticism.
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
Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...
You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.
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
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:
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
Thoughtdiscount
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: thort-dis-cownt or, in less civilised areas, fort-dis-caant
Sentence: He would often thoughtdiscount their "anniversary of the day we first kissed", which Marie valued greatly, choosing to reminisce rather than book a table.
Etymology: From the useless proverb "it's the thought that counts" and "discount" suggesting "being cheap". Shame and woe to all thoughtdiscounters- mahahahaha!
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Good one! - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-06: 15:33:00
----------------------------
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
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
What a celebrashun! - Nosila, 2009-10-23: 22:44:00
----------------------------
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)
Onpurpose
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: on purpose
Sentence: I dit it not onpurpose
Etymology: purpose as in deliberate.
Commehmorate
Created by: playdohheart
Pronunciation: com-MEH-more-ate
Sentence: Bobby couldn't wait to get a wonderful present for their six day anniversary but Susan commehmorated it.
Etymology: commemorate + "meh" (a sound expressing "whatever")
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Ha Ha, I love the "meh" - riflesandkids74, 2007-04-08: 11:38:00
----------------------------
Eventualstress
Created by: Allison
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Barry's incessant whining because Jennifer didn't buy him yet another anniversary gift was causing Jennifer to have another bout of eventualstress like the one she had on his birthday.
Etymology:
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