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DEFINITION: n. The inability to find, organize, or keep track of, simple physical objects. Often occurs when an individual has developed a search-engine dependency. v. To search for something that should be easy to find.

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Discomboobulated

Created by: Sed8ed

Pronunciation: dis-com-boob-you-lated

Sentence: I get discomboobulated when I can't find my keys.

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Floptimizing

Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: flop/ti/miz/ing

Sentence: FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) struck home as Fred realized that all the time spent looking for his missing black sock could be blamed on his floptimizing genes.

Etymology: flop (failure) + optimizing (what every SEO guarantees)

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COMMENTS:

I'm wondering if I'm floptimistic? I think I can find stuff, but I can't... - wordmeister, 2007-01-06: 01:11:00

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Librarianemesis

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: lie-brair-ea-NEM-a-sis

Sentence: Since the advent of the world wide web, Alice, the librarian, had given up cataloging the contents of her house. She was afflicted with a malaise known as librarianemesis.

Etymology: librarian (traditional stereotype includes being inordinately organised) + nemesis ("the bane of my life")

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Wwwost

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: wwwôst

Sentence: You can find anything on the internet. That’s what Ralph believes. Somebody has been onlyin’ to him. When it comes to organizing his life with the internyet it’s a wwwost cause.

Etymology: www (world wide web) + lost (unable to find one’s way)

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Absentfindedness

Created by: chris

Pronunciation: ab-sent-fine-did-ness

Sentence: Tristram's absentfindedness was steadily getting worse...he couldn't even find the note he'd written that told him where he'd left his glasses.

Etymology: absent + find (and echo of absent-minded)

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COMMENTS:

Good word chris! - wordmeister, 2007-01-06: 11:41:00

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Absentfindedness

Created by: chris

Pronunciation: ab-sent-fine-did-ness

Sentence: Tristram's absentfindedness was steadily getting worse...he couldn't even find the note he'd written that told him where he'd left his glasses.

Etymology: absent + find (and echo of absent-minded)

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