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: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Presentense: /prez sen tens/ The minute she walked in the door after work, Kelly had the feeling of presentense. The reason was that although she had intended to get Wesley a birthday gift, the truth was she clean forgot about it. She rallied by saying that it was out in her car. She ran out to Walmart and was able to grab him something. He was so willing to believe her that he failed to notice it took her an hour to bring in it from her car. Etymology: Present (gift) & Tense (uneasy or nervous or anxious) & Wordplay on Present tense (a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking)
Created by: Nosila.
Amneversary: /am nee vers uh reee/ Someone had once told him that it was the thought that counted. They had lied. this was one anmeversary that would never be forgotten. The scars would see to that Etymology: amnesia, anniversary Created by: galwaywegian.
Distake: /distÄk/ 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) Created by: artr.
Acentminded: /A-suhnt-mahyn-did/ Paul had listened carefully to his girlfriend over the last year. He knew her shoe size, favorite color and the designer brand she wanted. He was just too acentminded to pull the trigger on the purchase, so he went with the standby bow around his genitals. Etymology: A Cent – Absentminded Created by: Mrgoodtimes.
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