Verboticism: Uderlizaed
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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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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Exteriogratituated
Created by: jetpro14
Pronunciation: Ex-teer-eo-gratit-oo-ated
Sentence: Ms. Rolly Mingwald was exteriogratituated, once again, by her nutty professor.
Etymology: Exterio = outer; Gratituated = thanked for (gratis)
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.
Giftrapt
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: gift rapt
Sentence: Jason was in a state of giftrapt because he was so seduced by the boxing, bubble wrap and tape, that he forgot about the contents.
Etymology: giftwrap (wrapping for a gift) & rapt (wholly absorbed)
Misundergifthood
Created by: DrWebsterIII
Pronunciation: mis'un - der - gift - hood
Sentence: I always try to leave the recipient of my inexpensive present in a state of misundergifthood with deceptive elegant wrapping.
Etymology: misunderstood + gift
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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Boxerrebellion
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: bock-sir-re-bell-yun
Sentence: Marina's third birthday brought expensive battery powered gifts as far as the eye could see -all from her "wish list". She played with them for a cumulative total of 10 minutes then grew tired of the noise and staged her own boxer rebellion by building a princess castle out of the packaging.
Etymology: box + boxer rebellion: uprising in China at the turn of last century against foreign trade and technology
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COMMENTS:
Got my vote for originality - too many wrap words - of which i was guilty too - petaj, 2008-04-22: 04:13:00
I LOVE historical references. Good work! - metrohumanx, 2008-11-20: 02:41:00
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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)
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
Carboard
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kärbôrd
Sentence: Joyce knew her son would not care much that she was buying a new refrigerator. What she didn't expect was that he would have a fit when she tried to dispose of the box it came in. Carboard! Carboard! he screamed. For the next couple of weeks, the carton was a race car, a taxi, a fire truck and a tank. Who knew?
Etymology: car (a road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine and able to carry a small number of people) + cardboard (pasteboard or stiff paper)
