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.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Shoplefter: /shop left her/ Carry never missed a chance to shop. It was always such a pity, there was that little bit, she left in the bottom of the cart. Unlike the shoplifter who took things without paying for them, Carry paid for things without taking them … She was a chronic shoplefter! Etymology: SHOP, LEFT, being a play on SHOPLIFT. Shop – visit stores and buy things. Left – past tense of leave; to have let something remain behind accidentally.
Created by: silveryaspen.
Comments on Shoplefter:
splendiction, 2009-04-13: 20:41:00
Another excellent word!Nosila, 2009-04-13: 22:23:00
Good word…she’s a kLEFTomaniac!Mustang, 2009-04-13: 22:46:00
But…she never had to deal with shoplefovers.mweinmann, 2009-04-14: 08:03:00
perfect!
Stupormarket: /stoÅpÉ™rmärkit/ Jean was OK when it came to her weekly shopping but was often overwhelmed by the stupormarket if she had to pick up a few things mid-week. Maybe it was all the bright colors, the 2fers or the BoGo’s perhaps the self-service checkout with all it’s confusing instructions (and Lord help her if she accidentally touched the dreaded Spanish button). If she could get past the fixation on dealing with the check-out and the pressure of not holding up the people in the queue behind her she would often rush out of the store without picking up her purchase or at best, get her acquisitions home only to discover that she had not bought the one thing she had gone to get. Etymology: stupor (a state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility) + market (a regular gathering of people for the purchase and sale of provisions) Created by: artr.
Comments on Stupormarket:
splendiction, 2009-04-13: 20:36:00
Excellent word!Mustang, 2009-04-13: 22:47:00
Very good!!
Buygoner: /by gon er/ Edward was a buygoner. Unlike your average man, Edward shopped till he dropped and forgot what he purchased. There were bags all over the house, full of stuff he thought would make great gifts for someone. The only problem was he forgot what he bought for who and ended up buying them something else. He loved shopping and enjoyed it until the Visa bills came in. Then he’d have a slight jag of buyer’s remorse, pay the minimum and set off again next time for another round of rampant consumerism. He knew he needed help one warm July night when he tried to find out what was causing the absolutely gross smell in his car. He thought he had run over a piquant rodent and it had left DNA on his tire. But no, when he finally opened the trunk and went through the bags he had stored inside, he found the culprit. Oh no, he thought, it’s Mozart…that deal of a fresh turkey he’d bought in December was rapidly decomposing in his trunk! Etymology: Buy (To purchase something) & Bygone (past events to be put aside;well in the past; former) & Goner (a person in desperate straits; someone doomed) Created by: Nosila.
Comments on Buygoner:
silveryaspen, 2009-04-13: 13:44:00
Oh that smell that makes you wish it was a byegoner, too! Clever create!Mustang, 2009-04-13: 22:45:00
Ed must let buygones be byebyegones
Shopadaisical: /shop-uh-DAY-zi-cul/ 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 Created by: Mustang.
Comments on Shopadaisical:
wayoffcenter, 2009-04-13: 06:35:00
Have you been following me? Thanks for changing the name.splendiction, 2009-04-13: 20:40:00
– really good word!silveryaspen, 2009-04-13: 22:08:00
Can just hear the shopadaisicals saying ‘oopsy daisy’ when they come out of their shopping daze! Just saying it makes me want to smile!Nosila, 2009-04-13: 22:18:00
Going into a grocerystore makes me shopadaze-ical..can’t remember what I need, can’t remember where I put my list…mweinmann, 2009-04-14: 08:00:00
great word….I can relate.abrakadeborah, 2009-04-16: 19:08:00
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!
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