forgetty

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
英 /fəˈɡɛti/    美 /fɚˈɡɛti/|[-ɾi]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person whose memory has been erased or damaged.
    — Forgetties were barely above underpeople in status. They were persons convicted of various major crimes, to whom the courts of the worlds, or the Instrumentality, had allowed total amnesia instead of death or some punishment worse than death
形容词 adj.
  1. Tending to forget things, forgetful.
    — Please tell me what is D. F.’s name? I ought to remember but am so “forgetty”!
  2. In a state of forgetting, having forgotten.
    — We are over here, I see that, and all that is over there, and this over hereness and that over thereness is a small part of infinite other relations of hereness and thereness, I see all this, but then I get a bit forgetty, and, just, don’t have this particular-in-aggregate setup in my head, and I say something like “I forget where we are.”

词形变化

more forgetty comparative most forgetty superlative forgetties plural

词源

词源 1
From forget + -y (“having the quality of; inclined to”).
词源 2
Coined or popularized by Cordwainer Smith (see quotations below). Seemingly from forget + -y (suffix forming diminutive or familiar nouns).
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