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DEFINITION: n. A lost thought; v. To become distracted and lose track of what you were thinking.
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Lought
Created by: JayBaldo
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: A terrible combo of lost and thought.
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:
Psyskip
Created by: katytee
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "Sorry, had a bit of a baffling little psyskip there...what was I saying again?"
Etymology: psych (i.e stuff to do with the mind) + skip (like what a CD might do)
Ideaotomy
Created by: grasshopper
Pronunciation: idea-otomy
Sentence: Dr.'s have recently put a name to the symptoms of a constant lose of though now known as ideaotomy
Etymology: idea-to have a thought otomy- the removal of something idea/otomy
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COMMENTS:
That's a pretty cool word.I suffer from it a lot!! - angelheart, 2007-05-22: 16:14:00
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Fleethink
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: flee th ink
Sentence: He thought the thought was fleethink but he wasn't sure.
Etymology: fleeting think
Divershunt
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: div err shunnt
Sentence: he always had something cute and witty to say to her, but when he walked into her office, her scent and her smile caused a major divershunt, leaving him simpering while withdrawing to the safety of the men's room.
Etymology: diversion, shunt
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.
Attentionesia
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: ah ten shun e see ya
Sentence: During her speech a spell of attentionesia swept the next thought from her mind
Etymology: attention + 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]
Goncept
Created by: whipspeak
Pronunciation: gon-sept
Sentence: Now I can't remember why I liked this word - it's goncept.
Etymology: concept: Something formed in the mind; a thought or notion + gone: departed; left.
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COMMENTS:
immaculate gonception? - Nosila, 2009-12-04: 18:17:00
:-) inarticulate gonception - whipspeak, 2009-12-04: 19:07:00
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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