DEFINITION: To change the dates, times or sequence of past events, in order to put a better perspective on your current situation.

Gildspree

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: gild + spree

Sentence: Worried that his working-class roots, would be discovered, Bob felt that he needed a background makeover to take him to a top job at the blue-blood, dominated legal firm where he just started to work. Immediately, he set out on a gildspree to goldproof his future. First he changed his place of birth, then his late father's occupation and, finally, to add a bit more self-sparkle, put it around that his maternal grandmother was european royalty. A gildmonger he was, a skilled one, he thought, but would he find out the hard way that all that glitters may not be gold.

Etymology: gild, (OE): a thin layer of gold put on & spree (ON): to run freely..

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