disremember

present singular third person disremembers · participle present disremembering · participle past disremembered · past disremembered

1. dialectalTo fail to remember; to forget.

   —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

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   “[…] 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

   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