Verboticism: Exteriogratituated
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.
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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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Wraptivate
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: RAP-tuh-veyt
Sentence: Wraptivated by some strange bibliomania, Bob's bookself was full of books unread, but collected solely for the beauty or bizarreness of their dust-covers*.
Etymology: Blend of WRAP as in wrapper, RAPT: carried away with the emotion, beauty etc., & CAPTIVATE: overpower with excellence etc. *DUST-COVER = Dust-jacket or Dust-wrapper.
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COMMENTS:
Hey Bob - we missed you last week - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-21: 12:12:00
Good word! - Mustang, 2008-04-21: 21:16:00
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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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Enwraptured
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: en/rap/cher
Sentence: Little children are enwraptured with the exterior of a present when the interior contains clothes.
Etymology: Wrap + enraptured
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COMMENTS:
And they know it before opening the box! - arrrteest, 2008-04-21: 19:00:00
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Wraptscallion
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: rapt/scal/yun
Sentence: Chris was such a wraptscallion that his friends gave him gifts packed with paper, string and bubble wrap.
Etymology: wrap + rapt + rapscallion (rascal, scamp)
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
Presentusinteruptis
Created by: pieceof314
Pronunciation: pree-zent-us-int-er-up-tis
Sentence: The anticipation was killing Betty as with each present, her best friend kept reaching near hers from the pile. She had selected the best gift she could think of and carefully wrapped it in beautiful paper. "Look at this one!" Janice shouted as she lifted the gift. "It is wrapped so wonderfully and the paper is so beautiful!" She spent extra care to unwrap the gift so that the paper was not spoiled. She put the gift down on the floor and held up the paper for all to see and passed it around meanwhile forgetting the gift beside her. This was a clear example of presentusinteruptis killing her joy.
Etymology: Presentus, from present or gift + interuptis, to interrupt
Distwraption
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: rhymes with distraction
Sentence: Granny always tried to use distwraptions at Christmas time so that the kiddies would not be disappointed with the cheap gifts her penury demanded. Fortunately they all loved to pop the bubblewrap she had scavenged during the year.
Etymology: distraction + wrap
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COMMENTS:
love the sound of this - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-21: 13:48:00
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Containeranger
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: con-TAYN-ehr-anjr
Sentence: After opening all the boxes that his toys and other gifts came in, little Jimmy ignored the toys and gifts and busied himself in flights of fancy with the containers, imagining them to be fighter planes, race cars, spy vehicles and fortified castles.
Etymology: blend of container and ranger
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COMMENTS:
Sounds like Christmas at our house every year...when will I learn just to give them boxes... - Nosila, 2009-06-04: 17:16:00
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Bowkeep
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: bo-keep
Sentence: Little Bowkeep saved every scrap of ribbon and wrapping from each gift she received to decorate her Barbie dreamhouse. She even took the bow off the new puppy her grandmother gave her and ran off to Barbieland.
Etymology: Wordplay on Little Bo Peep.
