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DEFINITION: To be so distracted by the fact that you can't find something, that you forget what you were looking for.
Verboticisms
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Roomroaming
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: room-roh-ming
Sentence: even though his sunglasses were on his head, he had spent a good five minutes searching for them and then he had spent a further ten minutes roomroaming
Etymology: room, roam
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COMMENTS:
Exactky what happens to me in the situation. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-11: 01:05:00
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Deliriuhm
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: deh/leer/ee/um
Sentence: His mind was in such a state of deliriuhm that he completely forgot what the frantic search had been for
Etymology: delirium(wild obsessive excitement) + uhm?
Recollecticide
Created by: trace45
Pronunciation: rec·ol·lecti·cide
Sentence: When Mary was looking for her purse she experienced recollecticide because her thought in the mind was put to death when she stopped to ask her friend did she know what she was looking for.
Etymology: recollect + cide
Flakesearch
Created by: sparkles510
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Matt's continued to flakesearch even though the keys are in his hands.
Etymology:
Findset
Created by: graypenguin
Pronunciation: find-set
Sentence: He was stuck in such a findset that he forgot what he was looking for.
Etymology: find + mindset
Biaphasia
Created by: gazissax
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He was so stricken with biaphasia that he couldn't find the words for what he had lost.
Etymology: From "aphasia" which is loss of ability to remember language; and "bi" meaning double.
Neglecate
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: neh-gle-keyt
Sentence: Fred continued to neglecate until Wilma hit him on the head with a frying pan.
Etymology: neglect + locate
Lobotomissed
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: lo-BOT-o-missed
Sentence: Marty was so lobotomissed he failed to realize he was holding his sunglasses in his hands.
Etymology: lobotomy + missed.
Baffooled
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: bah + fooled
Sentence: I got so baffooled looking for my sunglasses that I ended up looking for my wallet instead.
Etymology: baffle + fooled
Comments:
FreeToys - 2007-09-10: 14:01:00
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