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'Hope that's not my brain up there...'

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.

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Inspelligence

Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: in SPELL i gence

Sentence: Brian’s last question from the audience stupefied him. “Well, the truthh izz....” He lost his train of thought mid-sentence, hesitated, then launched into a full inspelligence of senseless blubbering. “Andi oeej f iaoe uck sjdi...” This got worse! Was he speaking meaningless drivellence or an obscure language? Moments later, he snapped to alertness to ask: who he was, where he was and why him? It was a stroke of ingenious speculation.

Etymology: From intelligent and spell: to fall into a trance-like state while exercising one's intelligence.

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Inspellbinding - Nosila, 2009-04-16: 02:14:00

“Andi oeej f iaoe uck sjdi...” - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-17: 03:36:00

My whole comment didn't show... What the “Andi oeej f iaoe uck sjdi...?” Good one! :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-17: 03:38:00

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Acumeander

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: ack-you-mee-anda

Sentence: Cinnamon's special topic on mastermind was "spices in Asian cuisine". Once the timer started and the host began asking questions, she began to acumeander. She could no longer think straight and mixed her cardamon with her cumin and the galangal with the ginger.

Etymology: acumen (keenness of mind) + meander (wander around, get sidetracked)

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Spicy! - Nosila, 2009-04-16: 02:12:00

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Brainwreck

Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: brayn-rehk

Sentence: "Ah Choo Choo," Tallulah exclaimed, looking down at her test paper. She had lost her train of thought. She had forgotten to take her meds and a brainwreck had taken place at the crossroads of Synapse and Catalyst.

Etymology: Playing on TRAINWRECK

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COMMENTS:

A great word! - splendiction, 2009-04-15: 20:08:00

Excellent! - Mustang, 2009-04-16: 00:21:00

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Transcendentaldeprivation

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: tranz-en-dentl-dep-ruhv-ay-shun

Sentence: 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'.

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COMMENTS:

Also transcenmental ....wonderful word! - mweinmann, 2009-04-15: 08:50:00

Highly Clever! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-15: 12:01:00

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Ramjammed

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: ram-jammed

Sentence: Margaret wondered if she may have studied a little too hard the night before her test when she realized she had gotten cram ramjammed trying to access the data.

Etymology: RAM: random access memory (memory; storage on a computer) jammed: to get stuck or blocked; crammed in too tightly

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Cerabrasion

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: sera bray zhun

Sentence: 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)

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COMMENTS:

This is clever, funny and perfect! - mweinmann, 2009-04-15: 08:47:00

Super names and super verbotomies! Very Brainy! :-) - silveryaspen, 2009-04-15: 11:58:00

Excellent! - splendiction, 2009-04-15: 21:44:00

Definitely something to cerebrate. - Mustang, 2009-04-16: 00:22:00

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Slipnaughts

Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: slip naughts

Sentence: 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.

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hahaha....slipknots are pefect...they can go either way, as evidenced by Mr. Arty Pants... - mweinmann, 2009-04-15: 08:49:00

- great blending, crafty name "Smarty Pants" and effective alliteration! Stunning. - splendiction, 2009-04-15: 21:35:00

I'm shcpitting on my schreeen az I read your "slipnaughts" and I'm perpetually shaying you're obshurevayshuns are schpot on! :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-16: 18:50:00

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Knowitnot

Created by: peenookie

Pronunciation: Like know it all...

Sentence: My boss is trying to tell me how this works?! He is such a knowitnot, he wouldn't know the how to handle this even if he had the policy and procedure book in front of him.

Etymology: know it all and not knowing it = knowitnot

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Disconnectedcerebralblankout

Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: dis-con-nect-ed-ce-re-bral-blank-out

Sentence: Sable was taking her medical board exam as she suddenly had a "disconnectedcerebralblankout" Not one word or idea or answer would enter her thoughts...as she was so disconnected her mind went completely blank.

Etymology: Disconnected:Not connected,separate; also:incoherent. Cerebral:Of or relating to the brain or the intellect. Blank:Appearing or causing to appear dazed,confounded. Out:So as to be missing or displaced from the usual or proper place.

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Fogginnoggin

Created by: memyselfandbo

Pronunciation: fog-in-nog-in

Sentence: Cynthia stared blankly at the words starting to swirl on her test paper. She couldn't believe that she was pulling a fogginnoggin during the most important test of her life! Why couldn't she remember the actors on the original cast of Barney the Dinosaur? WHY!?!?

Etymology: fog: to make obscure or confusing. noggin: a person's head.

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COMMENTS:

Good word! - splendiction, 2009-04-15: 21:37:00

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-04-15: 00:01:01
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James

abrakadeborah - 2009-04-16: 20:11:00
Metro,YOU ROCK! :)

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-10-28: 00:15:00
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James