disremember

English

Etymology

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, page 114:
  “[…] 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, […]
- 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward, Lock & Co., part II (The Country of the Saints), chapter I (On the Great Alkali Plain), page 53:
  “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, published 2005, page 70:
  she replied, with her air of mock seriousness: ‘I seem ter disremember at the moment.’
- 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, 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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