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DEFINITION: v. To go to the store and buy something, but then to forget to bring it home. n. A person who forgets what they bought -- until the credit card bill comes in.
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Payaway
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: pay-away
Sentence: When Roger got home and looked in the back of the minivan he realized that the groceries he bought for poker night with the boys were left behind, probably in a shopping cart in the store's parking lot. Chances were good that they were gone. The guys would certainly get a laugh at him. He'd have to come up with a believable story to save face. "I'll tell them that I bought the stuff on payaway," he thought, "that will buy me enough time to get back to the store."
Etymology: pay: purchase, buy + away: gone (wordplay on layaway -- to pay for things over time)
Lostshoppertunity
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: lost-shopper-tyu-nitty
Sentence: Just wait til you see what I bought at ... oh... no... not another lostshoppertunity.
Etymology: lost opportunity + shopper
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COMMENTS:
great blending! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-13: 13:51:00
Well done! - splendiction, 2009-04-13: 20:37:00
Great word, petaj - Nosila, 2009-04-13: 22:26:00
perfecto! - mweinmann, 2009-04-14: 08:02:00
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Shopnesia
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: shop-nee-zhuh
Sentence: Ralph really enjoys shopping. He loves to find a discount. He gets a thrill discovering just the right item. His ecstasy wanes when he gets to the register. This is when shopnesia often kicks in. Thinking about the next task on his "to-do" list can circumvent picking up his acquisition and taking it home. The money he saves on bargains can quickly be spent in fuel as he returns to the store to retrieve the purchase he left behind.
Etymology: shop (to visit stores for purchasing or examining good) + amnesia (loss of a large block of interrelated memories)
Storgetful
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: stôrgetfəl
Sentence: Often Ralph would be so intent on the transaction of buying something that he would be storgetful and neglect bringing his purchase home. He insists that it has nothing to do with the amount of weed consumed during his college days, whatever college that was.
Etymology: store (a retail establishment selling items to the public) + forgetful (apt or likely not to remember)
Storgot
Created by: memyselfandbo
Pronunciation: Store-got
Sentence: As instructed by his wife Gail, Sam dutifully picked out a gallon of 2% milk for the baby and was about to check out when he noticed a large display of spicy mustard at the end of aisle 12. He did his best to prevent drooling on the linoleum as he thought of pairing the mustard with his food of choice, bratwurst. He ran down the aisles to pick up some brats and buns and went back to the glorious mustard aisle. With his four items bumbling in his arms, he approached the cashier who rang up his items. She placed the brats, buns, and mustard in one bag and the milk in another. With firing up his grill on the brain, Sam grabbed the treasured bag with glee but storgot the milk. Only when he saw Gail's angry glare did he remember why he went to the store in the first place. Sam's heart sank as he realized he'd be on diaper duty for the next two weeks. And it sank even lower as he got back in the car, prolonging his bratfest even further.
Etymology: Store: a place that sells milk, brats, buns, beer, and other stuff you can eat. Forgot: to not remember.
Shopadaisical
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: shop-uh-DAY-zi-cul
Sentence: While on his routine shopping outings Garret was quite shopadaisical, distracted by the sales signs, any and all activity going on around him and as often as not he would walk off after paying and leave his shopping basket at the checkout or on occasion was known to leave his purchases in the basket in the parking lot, get in his car and drive off.
Etymology: Blend of shopper and lackadaisical
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COMMENTS:
Have you been following me? Thanks for changing the name. - wayoffcenter, 2009-04-13: 06:35:00
- really good word! - splendiction, 2009-04-13: 20:40:00
Can just hear the shopadaisicals saying 'oopsy daisy' when they come out of their shopping daze! Just saying it makes me want to smile! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-13: 22:08:00
Going into a grocerystore makes me shopadaze-ical..can't remember what I need, can't remember where I put my list... - Nosila, 2009-04-13: 22:18:00
great word....I can relate. - mweinmann, 2009-04-14: 08:00:00
Great description of definition and mood! I get in lackadaisical moods sometimes... I left a case of bottled water under the cart and drove off. :) I was in Shopadaisicalical shock when I realized what I did...hehehe! You have my vote! - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-16: 19:08:00
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Shopadaisical
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: shop-uh-DAY-zi-cul
Sentence: While on his routine shopping outings Bradley was quite shopadaisical, distracted by the sales signs, any and all activity going on around him and as often as not he would walk off after paying and leave his shopping basket at the checkout or on occasion was known to leave his purchases in the basket in the parking lot, get in his car and drive off.
Etymology: Blend of 'shopper' (buyer) and 'lackadaisical' (inattentive, uninspired)
Purchaselessohcrap
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Pur-chas-less-oh-crap
Sentence: Steve had this problem of buying and misplacing items before he even gets them home...he would go looking for something he knew he had bought, then recalled his "purchaselessohcrap" and was angry at himself for losing his purchases! Steve had the habit of leaving things at the store or underneath the shopping cart and even recalls not reaching underneath the cart to retrieve them and arriving home purchaseless. His wife Amy, always checks behind him now to make sure he has his purchases and just where it is he placed them? He thinks his wife is just a nag...until he has to make a sharp right turn driving home and sees their baby in it's car seat go flying off the top of their SUV and bouncing off safely into the back of a pick up truck tansporting mattresses...as Steve YELLS, "OH CRAP!"
Etymology: Purchase:To obtain by paying money or its equivalent. Less:Of reduced size,extent,or degree. (I added "less" meaning missing a purchase you knew you paid for and you can't find it...so you're purchaseless) Oh:Used in direct address of as in OH! NO!) Crap:Alteration of curse or (slang)to cuss.
Negoodsglect
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: na-goods-glekt
Sentence: When Hugh negoodsglected he felt as though he was offering charity to the needy and downtrodden. Things reached a crucial point, however, when he left his expensive poodle at the pet store and his new born baby daughter at the hospital.
Etymology: neglect + goods (as in items, wares)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
LOL!