disremember
verbUK /dɪsɹɪˈmɛmbə/ · US /dɪsɹɪˈmɛmbɚ/
Etymology From dis- + remember.
- “[…] 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:
- “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:
4 more examples
- 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:
- 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:
- "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:
- ‘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: