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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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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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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)
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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Theorecall
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˌθiəˈɹikɑl/
Sentence: One can theorecall major events, which often results in lots of head-smacking and an inability to get sympathy from anyone, but it's also possible to theorecall simple things. For example, one might remember to go to the store but end up buying snacks instead of milk and eggs.
Etymology: From theoretical + recall
Theoretigift
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: theo;rat;i;gift
Sentence: forgetogift or theoretigift - this was not a question.
Etymology: theoretic gift
Sentimentencing
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: sent-i/ment/en/sing
Sentence: Yeah - well it's really all about the sentiment not the gift right so I'm sentimentencing your birthday right now - and I did get you that diamondlike stud for your ear once and diamonds are ...like...forever
Etymology: sentiment + sentence
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COMMENTS:
3 weeks sleeping on the couch is the sentence for sentimencing - petaj, 2007-04-06: 19:37:00
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Meminaction
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: meh - mih - NAK - shuhn
Sentence: Sorry, I knew it was your birthday but meminaction took the better of me.
Etymology: Mem- from memo(ry) In- prefix indicating NOT Action
Dissendowment
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: diss-in-dow-ment
Sentence: Jill was underwhelmed with the dissendowment David gave her for her birthday
Etymology: diss, as in to disrespect or shun/ endowment, as in gift
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COMMENTS:
Followed by disembowelment. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-06: 11:02:00
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Hallmarkfatigue
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: hawlmarkfateeg
Sentence: I passed the dard store on Father's day but hallmarkfatigue set in and i didn't enter.
Etymology: Hallmark: noun tyrant company that uses guilt to imply that you don't love your friends and relatives unless you buy overpriced cardboard phrases at every conceivable occasion. fatigue - from latin meaning tiredness.
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COMMENTS:
dont fight the fatigue - suzanne, 2007-04-09: 18:43:00
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Anniverlaze
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: an ee ver laze
Sentence: Jane was a complete aniverlaze always avoiding getting anyone anything for any event.
Etymology: from lazy and anniversary.
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