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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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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
Brainout
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: bray-n-ow-t
Sentence: David was experiencing major brainout when on jeopardy, and was asked "This is the color yellow and blue make". He answered "What is purple?". He felt even worse when watching and noticed he and all the other players were wearing green shirts that day.
Etymology: Play on blankout. Brain (your thinker!) + out (forgetting, drawing a blank, OR as in external, not with you)
Ramjammed
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
Transcendentaldeprivation
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: tranz-en-dentl-dep-ruhv-AY-shun
Sentence: Gerald 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'.
Lapsody
Created by: fabdiva
Pronunciation: lap-so-dee
Sentence: Jake was bemused by the fact he had forgotten a whole page of his clarinet solo previously committed to memory - a lapsody in blue, as it were.
Etymology: lapse - a temporary failure of concentration, memory or judgement. rhapsody - an effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling.
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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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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COMMENTS:
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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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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COMMENTS:
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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Intellectrance
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: inn-tell-eck-trance
Sentence: When she entellectranced during her exam and left most of the answers blank, she realised later that all was not lost. That night while she slept she rattled off the answers perfectly in sequence while she talked in her sleep. Her husband, oblivious and never waking up to her droning voice, suddenly became highly educated on women's studies and gender analysis, constructions and intersections of race, class, age, ability and sexuality in popular culture, everyday life, the arts, the sciences, politics, societies, and the economy.
Etymology: intellect + trance (as in dazed)
Duhmentia
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dəmenshə
Sentence: His doctor told him there was no sign of dementia but Rudy knows he has days where duhmentia is the order of the day. It might be unwrapping something to eat, tossing the food in the trash leaving him with a wrapper in hand and a dumb look on his face or walking from one room to another with a task in mind only to forget why he went there. There was something else but I can’t remember it just now.
Etymology: duh (used to comment on an action perceived as foolish or stupid) + dementia (a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning)
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COMMENTS:
perfect - karenanne, 2010-10-29: 11:56:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
abrakadeborah - 2009-04-16: 20:11:00
Metro,YOU ROCK! :)
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James