forgettery [fer-get-uh-ree] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a faculty or facility for forgetting; faulty memory: a witness with a very convenient forgettery.
Origin of forgettery An Americanism dating back to 1860–65; forget + -ery Examples from the Web for forgettery Historical Examples of forgettery
Not one of the other children had had to use it, so it began to be called “Donald’s forgettery.”
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Every day for a week, he had to spend an hour in the “forgettery.”
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