Verboticism: Facadappointment

'Have you set up the security for our new computers?'

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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Facadappointment

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Pronunciation: Fah-sah-dah-point-ment

Sentence: Tom's parents experienced a horrible sense of facadappointment on Christmas after giving him five pound hand weights in a CB Radio box after he spent the previous year obsessing about the movie Smokey and the Bandit.

Etymology: Facade....as in surface appearance........combined with disappointement.

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