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'Why can't I google my socks?'

DEFINITION: n. The inability to find, organize, or keep track of, simple physical objects. Often occurs when an individual has developed a search-engine dependency. v. To search for something that should be easy to find.

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Lostaganism

Created by: nancyblue

Pronunciation: lost-tag-an-ism

Sentence: Hillary erupted in lostaganism upon learning that her red old stand-bye pantsuit was not picked up at the cleaners, because the store had gone out of business due to the great recession.

Etymology: lost: become unable to find ------ antagonism: active hostility or opposition

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Lostaginism occurs for many reasons: a lost hair clip,missing glove, misplaced infant child - nancyblue, 2011-01-03: 20:44:00

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Socknology

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: sock nowl edgy

Sentence: brian just could not get his head around socknology, it completely alluded him.

Etymology: from socks and technology

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Yahoosiery

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: ya hooz yeree

Sentence: Steve Wotsockniak was experiencing washday again and with it, the feeling of utter yahoosiery. Again his trip to the dryer had coughed up one less sock than he had entered into the machine. Somewhere in cybersockspace, another pink argyll was floating around aimlessly, looking for it's mate. Every week, Steve lost a sock in this manner and perhaps those lost soles did it on purpose. Maybe they contacted e-Darn-on-me.com to help them find their real sole mates...socks that shared their dreams and intellectual interests. Luckily Steve was such a nerd, that no one thought it odd that he wore two different socks to work. It was ironic though that he worked at a Help Desk, but could not help himself...

Etymology: Yahoo (search engine on Internet) & Hosiery (socks and stockings and tights collectively)

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Dopesy

Created by: Chapin

Pronunciation: Dope-see, dope-uh-see (alt.)

Sentence: Either invisible gnomes are deliberately stealing and hiding my keys, or I've got terminal dopesy.

Etymology: Root: "dope," an idiot or stupid person. Also a play on "dropsy," an abnormal accumulation of serous fluid in bodily tissues or cavities.

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Databrained

Created by: Ahoytheship

Pronunciation: data-brained

Sentence: She knew she was databrained when she tried to mentally use "Alt+F" to find a word in her book.

Etymology: data+scatterbrained

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Disdotorganization

Created by: sodium

Pronunciation: dis-dot-or-gan-uh-zay-shun

Sentence: Alan's keys, due to his disdotorganization, often ended up in various places, such as the microwave.

Etymology: disorganization + dot-org (as in a website)

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Ramnesia

Created by: maxxy

Pronunciation: RAM-knee-zha

Sentence: Jim can track down the latest Lindsay Lohan photos in 12 seconds flat online, but he developed ramnesia when it was time to pay his credit card bills.

Etymology: RAM (random access memory) + amnesia

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Googlephrenia

Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: goo-gull-FREE-nee-uh

Sentence: Jared is a total Googlephreniac. He has 578 online friends, 6 blogs, and can IM 24/7 but it took him 2 days to find his keys.

Etymology: Google + phrenia (mental disorder)

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Good! Two days to find his keys... - wordmeister, 2007-01-05: 11:58:00

Thanks. I am confused. Why is "stormee" credited with my word? - Alchemist, 2007-01-05: 13:01:00

Verbotomy Hi Alchemist, If you submit a word that has already been created by another player, you can choose to join the first player and become a co-creator of the word. That is how stormee joined your team. I guess it's proof that great minds think alike! ~ James - Verbotomy, 2007-01-07: 09:12:00

Ahhh~ light bulb goes on. Thanks! - Alchemist, 2007-01-07: 22:42:00

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Googlephrenia

Created by: stormee

Pronunciation: goo-gull-FREE-nee-uh

Sentence: Jared is a total Googlephreniac. He has 578 online friends, 6 blogs, and can IM 24/7 but it took him 2 days to find his keys.

Etymology: Google + phrenia (mental disorder)

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Good! Two days to find his keys... - wordmeister, 2007-01-05: 11:58:00

Thanks. I am confused. Why is "stormee" credited with my word? - Alchemist, 2007-01-05: 13:01:00

Verbotomy Hi Alchemist, If you submit a word that has already been created by another player, you can choose to join the first player and become a co-creator of the word. That is how stormee joined your team. I guess it's proof that great minds think alike! ~ James - Verbotomy, 2007-01-07: 09:12:00

Ahhh~ light bulb goes on. Thanks! - Alchemist, 2007-01-07: 22:42:00

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Searchenginitis

Created by: pianowiresmile

Pronunciation: Serch-en-gin-i-tis

Sentence: He sat at his computer so long, googling and wikipedia-hunting fer them thesis papers, he developed a wicked case of searchenginitis. It's that dang confounded college, ya know?

Etymology: Search engine/-itis (illness)

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