prepone 

Function: transitive verb

Inflected forms: pre•poned; pre•pon•ing

Etymology: Latin preponere to place before, prepone, from pre- + ponere to place -- more at POSITION

Date: Has been in use in urban English spoken in India since at least the 1950s

To advance an event or activity to an earlier time. The closest American usage is “to advance” the timing of something. The word came into vogue in urban India as the opposite of “postponing” something.

“To make sure we get to enjoy the fireworks display that starts promptly at 9 PM, let us prepone the dinner engagement to 7 rather than 8 tomorrow evening”

prepone by Nik Dholakia August 21, 2006

prepone 

Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): pre·poned; pre·pon·ing
Etymology: Latin preponere to place before, prepone, from pre- + ponere to place -- more at POSITION
Date: circa 2003, Providence RI
1 : to put off to an earlier time : pre-DEFER
2 a : to place earlier (as in a sentence) than the normal position in English <prepone an adjective> b : to place earlier in order of precedence, preference, or importance.

Jonas, Peter and Rowena scheduled a meeting for 11:00, but Sam preponed it to 10:00 due to an impending etymology debate.

prepone by Peter Wyner September 11, 2003

prepone 

It's the opposite to postponed. When one has made an appointment and needs to make it earlier rather than later.

Hi Peter, Can we "prepone" our 5pm meeting today to 3pm? I have another engagement that has come up.

prepone by Emjonno May 17, 2009

prepone 

A backformation created from the word "postpone," created by replacing "post" with "pre" to convey a nebulous sense of what the user has in mind with respect to sequential or temporal placement of something. A non-word with a limited currency in technically oriented circles, has yet to gain widespread or consistent use in authoritative dictionaries considered to uphold legitimate standards of usage by linguistically or verbally sophisticated language users, who think it rebarbative. Some nonauthorities subscribe to the school of thought that the word is formed from the eating of corn pone, biscuit-like food commonly eaten at breakfast by industrious tillers of the soil in rural regions of the U.S., who couldn't always wait for the corn pone to finish baking before eating it, necessitating their eating of "prepone" for breakfast. With migration trends tending to flow from countryside to city, prepone came to be adopted for more loose or general use to refer to things that occur before originally planned.

1. "Discussion of having writing training for our engineers so the clarity and style of their writing will equal their elevated intelligence and contribution to our company, has been preponed from next week's agenda to this week." 2. "Doggone it Ma, I gots to mosey on down to the field - jes fetch me some prepone an' I'll be gittin' on."

prepone by sam September 12, 2003

Prepone 

Fancy antonym of postpone.

"I was going to postpone using my bone, but I preponed and made her moan."

Prepone by TheDFL May 15, 2023

cdesign proponentsists 

The missing link between "creationists" and "design proponents", as used in the textbook Of Pandas and People. Used to refer to creationist dumbfucks who are all to generally confused by science theology or even common sense.

Science says man evolved from other apes. Cdesign proponentsists say apes smell and prefer the scientific explanation "Goddidit".

cdesign proponentsists by cdesign proponentist October 21, 2006

predone

adjective. finished ahead of time but of value because it facilitates laziness on the part of the recipient.

Tom: Hey I had some great fried chicken this weekend, cooked it up with my kid

Christine: Yeah, I had some fried chicken too but I picked it up at the Deli section of the grocery... It was Predone!

predone by Christine Mary April 28, 2012