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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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Containerambo
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: con - tane - uhr - ram - bow
Sentence: After opening all the boxes that his new computer, various toys and other gifts came in, Gilbert busied himself in fanciful games with the containers, imagining them to be everything from fighter planes, to fortresses to James Bond type vehicles.
Etymology: Blend of container and Rambo.
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COMMENTS:
good word - Nosila, 2008-04-21: 20:26:00
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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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Boxelation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: boks-ih-ley-shuhn
Sentence: Mom's regrigelation was caused by her new ice box. The kid's boxelation,on the other hand, was caused by the carton it came in.
Etymology: box (a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard) + elation (a feeling or state of great joy or pride)
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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Wrapsody
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: rap so dee
Sentence: Jill's kids, cat and hubby each felt their own wrapsody on Christmas morning. Her kids would make houses out of the boxes that their expensive toys came in; her hubby made silly hats from the ribbons and bows and her cat loved shredding the tissue and then horking it up all morning, all over the house. Wrapture, Bliss!
Etymology: Wrap (the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped) & Rhapsody (A state of elated bliss; ecstasy)
Boxnip
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: Bocks-nipp
Sentence: Like a jovial child, Roger was fully engaged in the packaging popcorn. His office became a winter wonderland of Styrofoam popcorn. The stuff was boxnip to him.
Etymology: box-as in cardboard box; catnip-drives cats nuts and is really engaging to them.
Packa-ching!
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: pak-ka-ching!
Sentence: the new bike went unnoticed as Toby was too enamored with the packa-ching.
Etymology: packaging, ka-ching!
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COMMENTS:
Cute word! - Nosila, 2009-06-04: 17:18:00
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Enwraptured
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: in - rap - chur - d
Sentence: Mitsy spent an entire afternoon choosing a special gift for Elijah's birthday. Imagine her disappointment when Elijah became enwraptured with the packaging and wrapping and forgot all about the gift itself.
Etymology: enraptured (enchanted: held spellbound), wrap
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COMMENTS:
It's a wrap! - Nosila, 2009-06-04: 17:15:00
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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.
Bowkeep
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: bo-keep
Sentence: Little Bowkeep saved every scrap of ribbon and wrapping from each gift she received to decorate her Barbie dreamhouse. She even took the bow off the new puppy her grandmother gave her and ran off to Barbieland.
Etymology: Wordplay on Little Bo Peep.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James