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disremember en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /dɪsɹɪˈmɛmbɚ/ (General-American)
• /dɪsɹɪˈmɛmbə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From dis- + remember.

Meanings

1. (dialectal) To fail to remember; to forget.
   • ‘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.’ 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
   • 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. 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:
   • “Why don’t you say some yourself?” the child asked, with wondering eyes. “I disremember them,” he answered. 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part II (The Country of the Saints), chapter I (On the Great Alkali Plain), page 53:
   • "Take those things I sold yesterday. How much did you make on them?" "I couldn't say, dearie. I disremember what I paid for them," said Mrs Dibble evasively. 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 51:
   • she replied, with her air of mock seriousness: ‘I seem ter disremember at the moment.’ 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 70:
   • —I disremember if it was October or November. 1916, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
   • “[…] 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, […] 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:

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