Verboticisms

Created by: jajsr

Pronunciation: Miss-ten-cawl

Sentence: Stacey always had a million things on her mind. She as walked into the bathroom, she had a mistencall and completely why she was there in the first place.

Etymology: Mixture on "Mis" - opposite or lack; "tend" from intend - to direct the mind on; and "call" from recall - to bring back to mind.

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COMMENTS:

Evokes the feeling of mists (misseds) clouding the mind! Has great originality! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-13: 12:29:00

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Created by: Saylor

Pronunciation:

Sentence: She strode into the room, sure of her purpose but not even a foot past the threshold, locoblivation came upon her.

Etymology: locus, Latin: place obliviscor, Latin: forget location-related amnesia

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Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: I-pif-foe-nee

Sentence: Charlotte hated these epiphonies. It seemed, increasingly, the minute she passed from one room to another, especially through a doorway, rather than remembering why she had gone there in first place, it would suddenly hit her that she couldn't even remember! Well, at least, she told herself, she could remember that. Usually retracing her steps helped, although it was embarrassing when it involved entering and reentering the front door of her apartment.

Etymology: A play on words, taken from "epiphany," meaning an intuitive leap of understanding especially through ordinary circumstances + "phoney," meaning false.

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: no idea

Sentence: Milton always greeted her with a smile when she came expectantly into the room, but it was clear that her mind had gone blank."i love you" he'd say. "do you knowwhydear?"

Etymology: know why (antonym of no idea)

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COMMENTS:

Perceptive sentence. Ingenious word! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-22: 10:32:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: for - gent - trance

Sentence: As soon as I walked into the kitchen, I began to forgentrance the purpose of it all. The coffee was made, the dog was fed, the dishes were washed....but why oh why was I here?

Etymology: I saw many words in this one....Forget (be unable to remember) + Forge (To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward, to forge ahead) + Entrance (The action of entering, or going in; The place of entering, as a gate or doorway) + Trance (a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing)

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COMMENTS:

Been there, done that.....but dont remember when. - Mustang, 2009-01-14: 00:00:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: damnēzhə

Sentence: Charlie would often have bouts of damnesia where he would get up from what he was doing to get something and then forget what he meant to get. This occurrence would inevitably elicit his favorite expletive, "Damn!". Most of the time returning to the starting point would refresh the thought but not always. Those were the moments that worried him the most.

Etymology: Damn (exclamation expressing anger, surprise, or frustration) + amnesia (a partial or total loss of memory)

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COMMENTS:

I started to write something clever... Oh, well! - wayoffcenter, 2009-01-13: 06:08:00

Damned clever! - metrohumanx, 2009-01-13: 07:51:00

Damn good! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-13: 12:06:00

Damnesia is that what happens to beavers and muskrats when they forget where they live??? - Nosila, 2009-01-13: 19:48:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: wändərlôst

Sentence: Jill laughs at her mother when she has a ”senior moment”, forgetting why she went from one room to another to get who knows what. The truth is Jill is wanderlost almost as often as her mom.

Etymology: wander (walk or move in a leisurely, casual, or aimless way) + lost (unable to find one's way)

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: flush/terd

Sentence: She was completely flushturd as she looked around the bathroom. Was she supposed to let out the bathwater or flush the toilet?

Etymology: flustered + flush + (you know)

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COMMENTS:

Today and yesterday you seem stuck in the bathroom! We won't make you stay there until you remember why! Very innovative pun! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-21: 01:42:00

HA! - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-21: 06:20:00

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: diss-MEM-burr-eee

Sentence: Queen Jane tried to remind herself not to forget to remember something important as she entered the throne room. Just behind her forehead, urgent thoughts rattled around like mexican jumping beans about to hatch.The words "oral hygiene" were on the tip of her tongue, but that wasn't it. It might have something to do with the supersubmicroscopic spider crawling up the tiles, but she just couldn't put her finger on it. Perhaps her medication was causing this DISMEMBORY. Her thoughts drifted through her mind like dust motes in the fluid of her sight. WHAT exactly was she supposed to remember? The 39 Steps ? Queen Jane couldn't even recall where she had mislaid that potato chip. The odd thing was, she could recall the numbers to her combination lock in high school, but not what she did in the kitchen five minutes ago...Perhaps if she re-traced her steps, it would come rushing back to her like a hot kiss at the end of a wet fist. What was it? The McGuffen? Who knows?

Etymology: DISMEMBer+memORY=DISMEMBORY..... DISMEMBER:to break up or tear into pieces, especially brain cells,to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of one's profound thoughts; Middle English dismembren, from Anglo-French desmembrer, from des- dis- + membre member.....MEMORY:a particular act of recall or recollection, the power or process of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and sometimes forgotten, especially through associative mechanisms, the store of things learned and retained from an organism's activity or experience as evidenced by modification of structure or behavior or by recall and recognition; Middle English memorie, from Anglo-French memoire, memorie, from Latin memoria, from memor mindful; akin to Old English gemimor well-known, Greek mermēra care, Sanskrit smarati "she remembers".

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COMMENTS:

How far is Winnipeg from Montreal? - metrohumanx, 2009-01-13: 07:42:00

Uhhh...I was going to write something clever here, but I forgot what it was. - metrohumanx, 2009-01-13: 07:48:00

cleverness is evading me also but this word is clever enough!! - mweinmann, 2009-01-13: 11:24:00

Immediately upon saying this word, couldn't help but think 'dismembered' memory! Captures the fright in losing the mind! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-13: 12:04:00

in answer to your question - very far - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-13: 12:07:00

Memories, all alone in the moonlight is nostalgic, but it sounds like a comedy when you sing Dismembories, all alone on a long flight from Winnipeg to Montreal... - Nosila, 2009-01-13: 19:46:00

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Created by: Kennecticut

Pronunciation: gofer got

Sentence: I went to the fridge and immeadiately gofergot why I was there

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

Clever creation. - silveryaspen, 2008-03-21: 21:23:00

Very good! - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-22: 06:40:00

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