DEFINITION: n. An out-of-body, or out-of-brain, experience which occurs when faced with a demanding intellectual challenge. v. To lose your train of thought while trying to demonstrate your intellectual prowess.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Einstymied: /Ä«nstÄ«mÄ“d/ Randall is the youngest ever in his school to take Master’s-level physics. Some call him a prodigy. Today he feels more like a brick of prodicheese. He is completely Einstymied by the test in front of him. Apparently his brain has gone back to bed without him. Etymology: Einstein (a genius) + stymied (prevent or hinder the progress of) Created by: artr.
Comments on Einstymied:
splendiction, 2009-04-15: 21:36:00
ha ha! well done!
Slipnaughts: /slip naughts/ Mr. S. M. Arty Pants pompously pontificated his perspicacious perceptions perpetually. People paid little attention to his weary, dreary, tiresome tedious technical talking. Suddenly, his speech suspended when his mind suffered slipnaughts and left him tied up in silence. Etymology:
SLIP, NAUGHT, SLIPKNOTS. When a mind slips (falls)into naughts (nothings), it becomes all slipknotted (tied up) in silence. Created by: silveryaspen.
Comments on Slipnaughts:
mweinmann, 2009-04-15: 08:49:00
hahaha….slipknots are pefect…they can go either way, as evidenced by Mr. Arty Pants…splendiction, 2009-04-15: 21:35:00
– great blending, crafty name “Smarty Pants” and effective alliteration! Stunning.abrakadeborah, 2009-04-16: 18:50:00
I’m shcpitting on my schreeen az I read your “slipnaughts” and I’m perpetually shaying you’re obshurevayshuns are schpot on! 🙂
Cerabrasion: /sera bray zhun/ Sarah Bellam was normally an intelligent girl, who aced exams and got high marks without even studying. That was until today. She sat at the exam desk and suffered a serious bout of cerebrasion. She could not even concentrate on the questions, nevermind supply lucid answers. She was out of her gourd and feeling melon-choly. This was because last night, the man of her dreams, Harry Honeydew, had asked her to run away with him and get married. Sure, she was tempted, but at 18, she knew she did not have the courgette to defy her parents and give up her education or her Mellon scholarship. She squashed his romantic overtures and played back in her mind the words she worried she may later come to regret,”No, I cantaloupe with you Harry!” Etymology: Cerebrate (use or exercise the mind or one’s power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments) & Abrasion (erosion by friction, being worn down) Created by: Nosila.
Comments on Cerabrasion:
mweinmann, 2009-04-15: 08:47:00
This is clever, funny and perfect!silveryaspen, 2009-04-15: 11:58:00
Super names and super verbotomies! Very Brainy! 🙂splendiction, 2009-04-15: 21:44:00
Excellent!Mustang, 2009-04-16: 00:22:00
Definitely something to cerebrate.
Transcendentaldeprivation: /tranz-en-dentl-dep-ruhv-ay-shun/ Gilbert had recurring episodes of transcendentaldeprivation and particularly so when he was trying to show off his imaginary mental agility wherein his mind would wander completely off topic causing him to lose his train of thought entirely. Etymology: Blend of ‘transcendental’ (being beyond ordinary or common experience, thought, or belief; supernatural) and ‘deprivation’,(dispossession; loss) a play on the term ‘transcendental meditation’. Created by: Mustang.
Comments on Transcendentaldeprivation:
mweinmann, 2009-04-15: 08:50:00
Also transcenmental ….wonderful word!silveryaspen, 2009-04-15: 12:01:00
Highly Clever!
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