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DEFINITION: n. A lost thought; v. To become distracted and lose track of what you were thinking.
Verboticisms
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Disbrainia
Created by: guesser
Pronunciation: dis-brain-Ea
Sentence: I don't know which is worse, disbrainia or brain freeze, both make my head hurt!
Etymology:
Thinkhole
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: think - ho - el
Sentence: In trying to remember what she meant to tell her husband, Marnie encountered a thinkhole. She could not retrieve the thoughts that had been preoccupying her for the last day and a half. She felt like her mind was wandering the desert.
Etymology: think, sink, sinkhole
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COMMENTS:
I must thay, that's a thuper word! - whipspeak, 2009-12-04: 08:07:00
Love it! You got my vote! - artr, 2009-12-06: 06:53:00
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Evapidoration
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ēvapidərāshən
Sentence: Joan has given up any thoughts of thinking. She has resigned the real world, where you have to remember stuff, to join the e-world, where your IQ can be measured in gigabytes. Her **smart phone** is brighter than she is. If she has a thought, she better get it down in her notes app or it will succumb to evapidoration. A friend asks if she wants to meet at a particular restaurant. Before you can blink, she is reading the menu and texting a reservation. Just don*t ask her to share her thoughts. She doesn*t have time for those anymore.
Etymology: evaporation (cease to exist) + vapid (offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging - made of vapors)
Pensamnesia
Created by: Carria
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: From latin pēnsāre "think " and amnesia
Thautata
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: thaw - tuh - TAH [just say the last two syllables in a staccato accent] phonemic symbols: /θɔːt - tʌ - tɑː'/
Sentence: Thalia thautatad and her thought then turn to a thorough thautata. Thin thoughts turn out to be thautatas when thoughtless Thalia thinks thin thoughts-- a thoughtless thinking method we know now as thautata.
Etymology: "thought" + tata [goodbye in a more smexi manner]
Dejalost
Created by: fredm
Pronunciation: deja-lost
Sentence: As soon as she heard it, she had the feeling of dejalost - it was a thought she would never remember.
Etymology: dejalost - from deja (Fr.: already) + forgotten antonymn: "deja vu"
Ponderror
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: pond + err + or
Sentence: I had this great idea for a new flavor of frozen yogurt but then my brain had a ponderror and I don't know what it was any more.
Etymology: ponder + error
Thinkslip
Created by: ldikarev
Pronunciation: THink slip
Sentence: As I was about to win the noble prize for general awesomeness of ideas I had abrupt thinkslip and lost all memory of my idea.
Etymology: think slip
Ifonlyness
Created by: geoamnesia
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The thought came, saw and fled in a nanosecond, leaving me with that familiar feeling of ifonlyness.
Etymology: If + only - a mental and emotional condition common to people with short memories, or no memory at all.
Thoughtbotomy
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: n. thot-bot-oh-mee
Sentence: During his presentation, Bob had an unscheduled thoughtbotomy; the slide was before him, yet he couldn't think of a single word to say.
Etymology: thought, lobotomy
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COMMENTS:
yikes - just thought of a witty retort and then lost it - I gusess it was a verbothoughbotomy - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-21: 09:40:00
I also forgot how to spell guess - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-21: 09:41:00
I can sympathize - I suffer from spellth with alarming frequency lately. - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-21: 18:07:00
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Comments:
Verbotomy - 2007-05-21: 01:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by ziggy41. Thank you ziggy41! ~ James
Verbotomy - 2009-12-04: 00:02:00
Today's definition was suggested by ziggy41. Thank you ziggy41. ~ James