Gift-gazumped

The lady got this term from a former co-worker.

Being ''gift-gazumped'' is when someone gets you a gift that you weren't expecting, so you're caught flat-footed -- or you got someone a token gift (like a small box of candy), and they got you a ''real'' gift. Happens with co-workers around holiday times, and also with friends-of-family -- like when someone shows up at Christmas with a gift for your kid, and you don't have one for **their** kid.

A derivation of this is ''card-gazumped'' -- when someone gets you a card, and you didn't get them one. Ummm....


A useful term.


--GG