disremember
English
Etymology
From dis- + remember.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪsɹɪˈmɛmbə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /dɪsɹɪˈmɛmbɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɛmbə(ɹ)
Verb
disremember (third-person singular simple present disremembers, present participle disremembering, simple past and past participle disremembered)
- (chiefly US dialectal) To fail to remember; to forget.
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182:
- “ […] and just in the edge of the evening she started over with her nigger woman in the horse-ferry to stay all night at her friend’s house, Miss What-you-may-call-her I disremember her name—and they lost their steering-oar, and swung around and went a-floating down, […]
- 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter I, in A Study in Scarlet. A Detective Story, 3rd edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co., […], published 1892, OCLC 84167364, part II (The Country of the Saints), page 125:
- “Why don’t you say some yourself?” the child asked, with wondering eyes. “I disremember them,” he answered.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, page 70:
- she replied, with her air of mock seriousness: ‘I seem ter disremember at the moment.’
- 1902, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 33:
- Then there was the honest count straight through, next the side show with its pretence of "disrememberin'", or doubts as to the number - doubts never laid except by a double count.
- 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
- ‘I got a idee he's maybe sniffin around after a sartin gal, and me'n John is wonderin if he aint complete disremembered that that gal belongs to John's boy.’
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Anagrams
- dismemberer