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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.
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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!!!
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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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)
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.
Wraptscallion
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: rapt/scal/yun
Sentence: Chris was such a wraptscallion that his friends gave him gifts packed with paper, string and bubble wrap.
Etymology: wrap + rapt + rapscallion (rascal, scamp)
Cellofeign
Created by: verbherder
Pronunciation: sel-uh-feyn
Sentence: As I undid the fancy gold ribbon, and carefully removed the shiny, elegantly printed paper I was thinking, "Pedro just gave me the best birthday present ever!" Inside was a dark, velvety box with a metal hinge. I opened it slowly in an effort to savor the anticipation. My excitment was quickly replaced by disappointment that morphed into anger when it became clear Pedro had given me...a wad of fresh belly button lint in cellofeign. Pedro!!!!
Etymology: cellophane (type of packaging) + feign (to represent fictitiously)
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: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: en/rap/cher
Sentence: Little children are enwraptured with the exterior of a present when the interior contains clothes.
Etymology: Wrap + enraptured
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COMMENTS:
And they know it before opening the box! - arrrteest, 2008-04-21: 19:00:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James