different between forget vs forpet

English

Etymology

From Middle English forgeten, forgiten, foryeten, for?iten, from Old English for?ietan (“to forget”) [influenced by Old Norse geta ("to get, to guess")], from Proto-West Germanic *fragetan (“to give up, forget”). Equivalent to for- +? get.

Cognate with :

• Scots forget, for?et (“to forget”),
• West Frisian fergette, ferjitte, forjitte (“to forget”),
• Dutch vergeten (“to forget”),
• German vergessen (“to forget”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f????t/, (less commonly:) /f?????t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f????t/, (less commonly:) /f?????t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Hyphenation: for?get

Verb

forget (third-person singular simple present forgets, present participle forgetting, simple past forgot or (archaic) forgat, past participle forgotten or (rare) forgot)

1. (transitive) To lose remembrance of.
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten.

2. (transitive) To unintentionally not do, neglect.

3. (transitive) To unintentionally leave something behind.

4. (intransitive) To cease remembering.

5. (slang) Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).

Usage notes

• In sense 1 and 4 this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing).
• In sense 2 this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive.
• See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Synonyms

• obliviate, overlook, pass over, disremember

Antonyms

• acquire, learn, mind, recall, recollect, remember, reminisce

Derived terms

Translations

References

• forget in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• forget in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Alternative forms

• forpit

Noun

forpet (plural forpets)

1. (dated, Scotland) A quarter (fourth part) used especially as a unit of mass or capacity.
   • 1807, Letters from a young Farmer to his Father, The Farmer's Magazine, Volume 8, Edinburgh, page 472,

     Now, as I learned afterwards […] that straw is used each day, which carried six bolls, one firlot, and three forpets of grain; that each bunch of straw yielded something less than one peck and three forpets; and that the extent of ground which produced the straw for one day's consumption, was seventy hundredth parts of an acre, Scotch measure.