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DEFINITION: v. To talk to yourself in a high-pitched, squeaky voice while performing complex mental gymnastics.n. The sounds a person makes when they are trying to think.

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Smartycants

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: smart - ee - kants

Sentence: When Edward Eisen started thinking, we heard the unique and often soprano pitched sounds of his smartycants emerging from the quiet of the classroom, library or whatever room he happened to be using for his study.

Etymology: smarty, cants (musical singing sounds,the jargon of a particular class or subgroup), play on "smarty pants)

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COMMENTS:

Tee hee! Bravo Cantore! - mrskellyscl, 2009-08-24: 07:46:00

cants for the memories... - Nosila, 2009-08-24: 20:57:00

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Mensatwitter

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: men-sa-twit-a

Sentence: Hearing impaired members of the intelligent society often complain that the mensatwitter at their meetings makes it hard to follow proceedings. But nevertheless they cannot help twittering to themselves as they engage in intellectual exercises.

Etymology: Mensa (qualification for membership of which was a high IQ) + twitter (sound of birds chirping)

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COMMENTS:

Funny! Also sounds like something that "men", rather than women, do. - wordmeister, 2007-01-24: 07:48:00

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Oversquawking

Created by: kyotonils

Pronunciation: oh'-ver-skwa-king

Sentence: I caught myself oversquawking as I went through my new stereo's setup instructions for the third time.

Etymology: overclocking (computer term for super-high-speed processing) + squawking (screeching)

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Thoughtditory

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: thot dit toree

Sentence: Cousin Eddy's thoughtditory process was to squeak, honk and make animal noises while compiling his April returns. April herself found it all very taxing...

Etymology: Thought(the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about) & Auditory (of or relating to the process of hearing)

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Autogibber

Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: awe-toe-jib-burr

Sentence: Daniel had a habit of autogibbering loudly when stumped by difficult questions.

Etymology: auto+gibber, from Greek auto- (self) and gibberish (nonsense).

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COMMENTS:

My first verboticism. Enjoy. - Discoveria, 2007-01-24: 20:39:00

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Thoughticulate

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: thot tik yoo layt

Sentence: Kim could always tell when Sheldon was having a brainstorm. His process to thoughticulate involved making weird sounds, similar to dolphins calling to coyotes. His heretofore mental constipation would erupt into a noisy verbal diarrhea...That was why she panelled his office in sound-proof materials.

Etymology: Thought (the process of thinking, especially thinking carefully) & Articulate (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way;expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language)

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COMMENTS:

I wonder what the coyotes would think of dolphin talk? - artr, 2009-08-24: 11:21:00

They would probably wonder at the porpoise of it all... - Nosila, 2009-08-24: 20:54:00

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Intermensacousticate

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: inter mensa coo stick ate

Sentence: Albert Einstein while at work, could while away hours twiddling his hb pencil, occasionally intermensacousticating out of the corner of his mouth.

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