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What is the word or phrase for a gift given to someone because the giver actually wants one themselves and will be able to use it or have access to it. I am sure that my late mother knew this word but I can no longer ask her. Have been trying to find it for years. Does anyone know it?
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If you're willing to plough through hundreds of responses, you might try entering in OneLook's reverse dictionary:
selfish bestowal
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Sounds kind of like the sort of thing that each family would have their own word for.
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Carpal Tunnel
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I found this term, Entwhistle: cupboard love. Defined as U.K. false show of affection: affection that is motivated by self-interest. From Encarta. Though it is not specific to giving.
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Huh! That's interesting. Faldage uses "cupboard love" to describe how our cats get all lovey-dovey with me at 5 o'clock in the ferkin morning when they've decided it's time for brekkies... never had heard it before.
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