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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.
Verboticisms
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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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Receptackle
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: ree/sep/tak/ul
Sentence: There's nothing like a good receptackle to boost a boring gift.
Etymology: receptacle + tackle
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COMMENTS:
good take on the definition - Nosila, 2008-04-21: 20:28:00
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Boxjoy
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bäksjoi
Sentence: Joan always encouraged her children to try new things. When she brought home Chinese carryout Jill, her youngest, discovered boxjoy. Her fascination with the little wire-handled boxes far exceeded her interest for the food inside.
Etymology: box (a container with a flat base and sides, typically square or rectangular and having a lid) + joy (a feeling of great pleasure and happiness) a play on bok choy.
Boxicologist
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Bock-see-kol-ee-jist
Sentence: If only Abbie's parents had realised she was a budding boxicoligist, they would not have botherered with the present, The empty box would have been just the thing to give her for her 3rd birthday,and save them a lot of expense!!
Etymology: Boxicologist- someone who is very interested in boxes and/or specialises in packaging.
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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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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Bubblewrapsody
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: bub bel rap so dee
Sentence: Georgia could not wait until Tuesdays each week. That's when the UPS guy, Jeff, brought their regular shipment of office supplies. Sure, he was tall,single and handsome in his brown uniform and he looked forward to seeing her delight when he entered the building. After many weeks of this mutual admiration society, Jeff was on the verge of asking for her phone number when she spilled the beans. She was in bubblewrapsody everytime she unpacked the boxes and popped all those little bubbles. She was addicted and awaited her fix every Tuesday. Oh well, he thought to himself...it wasn't the first time a cute girl liked him just for his package!
Etymology: Bubblewrap (a sheet of plastic material covered with air-filled bubbles, used for wrapping fragile objects in order to protect them in transit) & Rhapsody (A state of elated bliss; ecstasy)
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COMMENTS:
very popopular choice - galwaywegian, 2010-06-24: 03:37:00
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Cartonic
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: karr tohnn ik
Sentence: The new computer was discarded, the box proved the perfect cartonic, lifting his mood as he peeped out through the hand-holes in the side. It brought him back to his youth and the joy of seeing the Gateway boxes out grazing on the pastures.
Etymology: carton, tonic.
Playgus
Created by: RLMzies
Pronunciation: Play-Gus
Sentence: I gave My 31 year old son a gift in a large box just to see what he would do and when he opened it, he threw the gift onto the ground and popped all of the bubble wrap that was inside of the package. My son is the living deffination of Playgus.
Etymology: I walked down the street and saw a kid get a gift and do this so i made up this word. HAHAHA!!! You stink like moldy socks!!!
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James