Vote for the best verboticism.
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
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Thinket
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: think-eht
Sentence: My husband thought about getting me a trinket for my birthday, but all I ended up getting was a thinket. Perhaps he got fuggitful or forgiftful, because later he got doghousen syndrome.
Etymology: trinket, think
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COMMENTS:
I might actually use this one in real life. - iwasatripwire, 2007-04-06: 13:59:00
Can the sympoms of doghousen syndrome be eased by the sufferer sleeping on the sofa, or indeed in the doghouse? - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-06: 15:20:00
*symptoms - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-06: 15:20:00
I like sympoms better. Pays homage to The Simpsons and celebrates this dohccasion. And "The Couch" brings back such bad memories for my boyfriend that he'd prefer to sleep on my f.u.ton. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-06: 18:30:00
Ignore his f.u.tile excuses. Tell him you want your birthday celebelated. - petaj, 2007-04-06: 19:57:00
Oooo, celebelate is a GREAT word! - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-07: 06:03:00
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Naryanniversnary
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nairy annee vers nairy
Sentence: You just knew that after 37 years, the honeymoon was over. In the early years, Peaches and Howard had bought each other elaborate gifts and surprises to mark their wedding anniversaries...exotic trips, a new home, elegant gifts and expensive cameras, perfumes,jewellery, etc. After that long, people start to take each other for granted. Medicines and their side effects to keep symptoms at bay replace romance and passion with menopause,ED,gastro reflux and more frequent potty trips. Now they celebrated a naryanniversnary. Maybe he'd remember to shave that day and maybe she'd cook him a nice supper. They still loved each other, but they didn't remember why. Life just sometimes gets in the way of love...
Etymology: Nary (negative;not in any degree or manner; not at all) & Anniversary (the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it);ie: a wedding)
Eventualstress
Created by: Allison
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Barry's incessant whining because Jennifer didn't buy him yet another anniversary gift was causing Jennifer to have another bout of eventualstress like the one she had on his birthday.
Etymology:
Presentashun
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: prez un tay shunnn
Sentence: It wasn't the anniversary presentashun that bothered him, it was the look in her eye when she told him "it's the thought that counts"
Etymology: presentation, shun
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COMMENTS:
What a celebrashun! - Nosila, 2009-10-23: 22:44:00
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Oblivicious
Created by: ewigkeit
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Oblivo, l. "to forget" and Vitiosus, l. "faulty, corrupt".
Uhohcasion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: uh o kay sjun
Sentence: Being that Noel's birthday is on Dec.25, no one remembers to get him a birthday present. His uhohccasion is lumped in with the Christmas celebrations and people seldom remember to get him a separate birthday gift.
Etymology: Uh oh (Oops!)(Used to express acknowledgement of a blunder, or mistake) & Occasion (event, milestone,celebration)
Noughtful
Created by: simoneshin
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Good potential...give us a sentence/etymology and you'll get more points! - Nosila, 2009-10-23: 22:45:00
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Celeberate
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: sell-ah-be-rate
Sentence: Julie would tend to celeberate special occassions by remembering the occassion but forgetting to do anything special which usually led to a fight.
Etymology: celebrate + berate
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COMMENTS:
I like it! Good word!! I love berating people at their celebrations. It keeps them from feeling too good about themselves on their special day!!! Got my vote. - Stevenson0, 2007-04-06: 17:03:00
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Selecadeaumemoirism
Created by: Jaxies
Pronunciation: /seh-lek-a-doh-mem-wah-ism/
Sentence: "Mandy was in the bathroom crying because of Adam's selecadeumemoirism - their 2 week anniversary and he had failed to get her anything."
Etymology: Select + cadeaux (FR.) + memoir (FR.) + ism
Negligift
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: neg-li-gift
Sentence: Marsha tried to excuse her negligift by saying "It's the thought that counts," but no one would buy it, especially her son Evan who was turning seven.
Etymology: negligence: a failure to act either willfully or through a lack of concern + gift: present
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COMMENTS:
Negliexcellence - Nosila, 2009-10-23: 22:44:00
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Comments:
This definition is based on a fictional event. The fact that my dear and loving partner celebrated her birthday yesterday, is not related to this definition in anyway whatsoever. It is simply a coincidence. And, may I repeat, I did not forget her birthday. In fact, I thought of many gifts which I could have easily purchased for her. Thank you. ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-04-06: 08:13:00
So your partner got "Jamesed"?
I believe she was verbotomized. And I don't think she was too pleased with the procedure. ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-04-06: 11:12:00
That bad, huh? Well, an iron makes a useful gift, as it is the perfect size, shape, and weight to make good contact with the forgifter's cranium.
Forgifter? What a wonderful merger of the words "foresight" and "gift". Clearly, I should be be forgiftgiven.
purpleartichokes - 2007-04-06: 15:31:00
Perhaps a bottle of fine whine with some aged cheesy excuses might work.
No doubt you have been celeberated for exploiting the comissmemoration for the benegift of the verbotomy crowd. Maybe a box of shocklates would help.
Or may be a celebelation will suffice.
Thank you for your kind thoughtdiscounts. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by wordmeister. Thank you wordmeister. ~ James