Disremember

/dɪsɹɪˈmɛmbə/ · verb

Meaning

(chiefly US dialectal) To fail to remember; to forget..

Example Sentences

“[…] 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, […]

“Why don’t you say some yourself?” the child asked, with wondering eyes. “I disremember them,” he answered.

she replied, with her air of mock seriousness: ‘I seem ter disremember at the moment.’

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.

"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.

‘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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• disremembers
• disremembering
• disremembered

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