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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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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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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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Transmogiftfy
Created by: Jamagra
Pronunciation: trans/mow'/gift/fie
Sentence: Calvin's ability to transmogiftfy any box or wrapping into a rocket ship dazzled his parents. It frustrated his lazy pet tiger Hobbes to no end, however.
Etymology: transmogrify - To change into a different shape or form, especially one that is fantastic or bizarre + gift
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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Gifirapiwipionfaldikuistimulous
Created by: balku4
Pronunciation: ji-fi-raw-pee-on-fal-dee-kooi-sti-moo-lus
Sentence:
Etymology: started of as the beggining of word and added random sounds i have heard.
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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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)
Wrapsodelicious
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: rap so dee lish us
Sentence: When Todd saw his birthday gift, he was ecstatic! His friends had managed to pull off the best 40th Birthday gift for him...after months of hinting and cajoling, he knew they would not let him down. There she was, the lovely Violetta who had arrived at the office in a diaphanous sheer gauzy gown, nothing left to the imagination. She looked like an embodiment of Venus, the Goddess of Love and the other guys in his office swooned. "Where are they, My Pretty?" intoned Todd, and he knew she could keep nothing from him. Sure enough,when he came near her pulsating womanhood, she used her hands to give him the best gift of all...that's right, 2 tickets to the Super Bowl!
Etymology: Wrap (enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering) & Soda (sweet drink, with carbonated water & flavouring) & Delicious (greatly pleasing or entertaining)& Rhapsody (an epic poem adapted for recitation; heavenly delight)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James