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DEFINITION: v. To give a child, pet or coworker a wrapped gift or packaged item, only to discover they are more interested packaging than the item itself. n. Gift wrapping or packaging which proves to be more exciting than the contained item.
Verboticisms
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Packrapt
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: pack+rapt
Sentence: It would not have mattered what was in that big box, it was just packrapt to the kids.
Etymology: pack+rapt
Carboard
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kärbôrd
Sentence: Joyce knew her son would not care much that she was buying a new refrigerator. What she didn't expect was that he would have a fit when she tried to dispose of the box it came in. Carboard! Carboard! he screamed. For the next couple of weeks, the carton was a race car, a taxi, a fire truck and a tank. Who knew?
Etymology: car (a road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine and able to carry a small number of people) + cardboard (pasteboard or stiff paper)
Wrapathetic
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: rap-eh-THET-ik
Sentence: When it came to gift giving, Melody was wrapathetic, putting far more interest and enthusiasm in picking the wrapping than in picking the actual gift itself.
Etymology: Blend of 'wrap' and 'apathetic' ( having little or no interest or concern : indifferent)
Giftrapt
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: gift rapt
Sentence: Jason was in a state of giftrapt because he was so seduced by the boxing, bubble wrap and tape, that he forgot about the contents.
Etymology: giftwrap (wrapping for a gift) & rapt (wholly absorbed)
Gifirapiwipionfaldikuistimulous
Created by: balku4
Pronunciation: ji-fi-raw-pee-on-fal-dee-kooi-sti-moo-lus
Sentence:
Etymology: started of as the beggining of word and added random sounds i have heard.
Boxelation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: boks-ih-ley-shuhn
Sentence: Mom's regrigelation was caused by her new ice box. The kid's boxelation,on the other hand, was caused by the carton it came in.
Etymology: box (a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard) + elation (a feeling or state of great joy or pride)
Bubblewrapture
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /buhb-uhl-rap-cher/
Sentence: Every year on Timmy's birthday, a large box of carefully packed presents would arrive, sent by his Uncle Donovan and Aunt Beverly, who lived on the opposite coast. And every year, after opening the box and looking over the presents, Timmy would be overcome by a case of bubblewrapture, often making a fort out of the box and fashioning weapons and armor out of the packing materials.
Etymology: bubble - a body of gas contained in a liquid or solid (from Middle Dutch, bobbel; imitative) + rapture - ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy (from Latin, raptus "a carrying off")
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COMMENTS:
oh Yessssss! - galwaywegian, 2008-04-21: 05:22:00
ah - ya beat me to it! Well done! - libertybelle, 2008-04-21: 10:13:00
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Playgus
Created by: RLMzies
Pronunciation: Play-Gus
Sentence: I gave My 31 year old son a gift in a large box just to see what he would do and when he opened it, he threw the gift onto the ground and popped all of the bubble wrap that was inside of the package. My son is the living deffination of Playgus.
Etymology: I walked down the street and saw a kid get a gift and do this so i made up this word. HAHAHA!!! You stink like moldy socks!!!
Containerambo
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: con - tane - uhr - ram - bow
Sentence: After opening all the boxes that his new computer, various toys and other gifts came in, Gilbert busied himself in fanciful games with the containers, imagining them to be everything from fighter planes, to fortresses to James Bond type vehicles.
Etymology: Blend of container and Rambo.
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COMMENTS:
good word - Nosila, 2008-04-21: 20:26:00
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Boxicologist
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Bock-see-kol-ee-jist
Sentence: If only Abbie's parents had realised she was a budding boxicoligist, they would not have botherered with the present, The empty box would have been just the thing to give her for her 3rd birthday,and save them a lot of expense!!
Etymology: Boxicologist- someone who is very interested in boxes and/or specialises in packaging.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James