Verboticism: Omitsionary

DEFINITION: v. To go to the store and buy something, but then to forget to bring it home. n. A person who forgets what they bought -- until the credit card bill comes in.
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Dropshopper
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: dra + psh + apper
Sentence: Jenny has become a real dropshopper in her old age. She goes out shopping and comes back home missing half of her purchases. She doesn't remember what she purchased until the bills come and then gets angry with the credit card companies for "ripping her off".
Etymology: drop, shopper
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COMMENTS:
Great one! I LOL! I've dropshopped a few times!!! :)) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-16: 19:11:00
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Payaway
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: pay-away
Sentence: When Roger got home and looked in the back of the minivan he realized that the groceries he bought for poker night with the boys were left behind, probably in a shopping cart in the store's parking lot. Chances were good that they were gone. The guys would certainly get a laugh at him. He'd have to come up with a believable story to save face. "I'll tell them that I bought the stuff on payaway," he thought, "that will buy me enough time to get back to the store."
Etymology: pay: purchase, buy + away: gone (wordplay on layaway -- to pay for things over time)
Purchaselessohcrap
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Pur-chas-less-oh-crap
Sentence: Steve had this problem of buying and misplacing items before he even gets them home...he would go looking for something he knew he had bought, then recalled his "purchaselessohcrap" and was angry at himself for losing his purchases! Steve had the habit of leaving things at the store or underneath the shopping cart and even recalls not reaching underneath the cart to retrieve them and arriving home purchaseless. His wife Amy, always checks behind him now to make sure he has his purchases and just where it is he placed them? He thinks his wife is just a nag...until he has to make a sharp right turn driving home and sees their baby in it's car seat go flying off the top of their SUV and bouncing off safely into the back of a pick up truck tansporting mattresses...as Steve YELLS, "OH CRAP!"
Etymology: Purchase:To obtain by paying money or its equivalent. Less:Of reduced size,extent,or degree. (I added "less" meaning missing a purchase you knew you paid for and you can't find it...so you're purchaseless) Oh:Used in direct address of as in OH! NO!) Crap:Alteration of curse or (slang)to cuss.
Shopnesia
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: shop-nee-zhuh
Sentence: Ralph really enjoys shopping. He loves to find a discount. He gets a thrill discovering just the right item. His ecstasy wanes when he gets to the register. This is when shopnesia often kicks in. Thinking about the next task on his "to-do" list can circumvent picking up his acquisition and taking it home. The money he saves on bargains can quickly be spent in fuel as he returns to the store to retrieve the purchase he left behind.
Etymology: shop (to visit stores for purchasing or examining good) + amnesia (loss of a large block of interrelated memories)
Shurk
Created by: ayyacoco
Pronunciation: Sherk
Sentence: Did you sherk the bag you bought at Prada earlier? Oh you're such a sherk! It's the second time today you've forgotten what you bought at the store!
Etymology:
Negoodsglect
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: na-goods-glekt
Sentence: When Hugh negoodsglected he felt as though he was offering charity to the needy and downtrodden. Things reached a crucial point, however, when he left his expensive poodle at the pet store and his new born baby daughter at the hospital.
Etymology: neglect + goods (as in items, wares)
Spendementia
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: spen-dee-men-sha
Sentence: Tricia came home elated over her purchase of the cute red leather platform heels from Macy's - too bad she had a bad case of spendementia that day - she had already bought those shoes 3 weeks ago!
Etymology: spend - to buy + dementia - cognitive disfunction that may occur as one ages
Storgetful
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: stôrgetfəl
Sentence: Often Ralph would be so intent on the transaction of buying something that he would be storgetful and neglect bringing his purchase home. He insists that it has nothing to do with the amount of weed consumed during his college days, whatever college that was.
Etymology: store (a retail establishment selling items to the public) + forgetful (apt or likely not to remember)
Stupormarket
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: stoōpərmärkit
Sentence: Jean was OK when it came to her weekly shopping but was often overwhelmed by the stupormarket if she had to pick up a few things mid-week. Maybe it was all the bright colors, the 2fers or the BoGo's perhaps the self-service checkout with all it's confusing instructions (and Lord help her if she accidentally touched the dreaded Spanish button). If she could get past the fixation on dealing with the check-out and the pressure of not holding up the people in the queue behind her she would often rush out of the store without picking up her purchase or at best, get her acquisitions home only to discover that she had not bought the one thing she had gone to get.
Etymology: stupor (a state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility) + market (a regular gathering of people for the purchase and sale of provisions)
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COMMENTS:
Excellent word! - splendiction, 2009-04-13: 20:36:00
Very good!! - Mustang, 2009-04-13: 22:47:00
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Shopadaisical
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: shop-uh-DAY-zi-cul
Sentence: While on his routine shopping outings Bradley was quite shopadaisical, distracted by the sales signs, any and all activity going on around him and as often as not he would walk off after paying and leave his shopping basket at the checkout or on occasion was known to leave his purchases in the basket in the parking lot, get in his car and drive off.
Etymology: Blend of 'shopper' (buyer) and 'lackadaisical' (inattentive, uninspired)
