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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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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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Chirponder

Created by: sodium

Pronunciation: tchir-pon-dur

Sentence: While trying to come up with a good word for today's Verbotomy, I found myself chirpondering.

Etymology: chirp + ponder

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Squeeling

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: squ eeeeeeeeee ling

Sentence: Frank was squeeling at his screen so loud even Dave came out of his office to tell him to pipe down.

Etymology: from squeal squeak and all those sorts of noises.

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Farticulate

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: far-TIC-u-late

Sentence: Bob's farticulating every time he worked on a project that required a little thought was only made more annoying by the wild hand gestures that accompanied it.

Etymology: fart - an adverse sound best made out of earshot of others. articulate - to speak

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COMMENTS:

Sounds like Bob was blowing a lot of hot air... - wordmeister, 2007-01-24: 10:03:00

Most definitely! I actually work next to this guy - flailing hand gestures and all. Quite annoying! - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-24: 13:36:00

Are you flailing to clear the air? Or is he flailing to punctuate the point? - wordmeister, 2007-01-24: 14:55:00

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Squinking

Created by: jonzerofourteen

Pronunciation: Skwin-king

Sentence: Bob faced Eliza and hurriedly searched his brain for a lie to explain the missing underwear. His squinking further fueled her suspicions.

Etymology: think + squeak (short high-pitched cry) + wink (close and open one eye quickly) - ing

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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.

Etymology:

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Psychoblather

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sahy-koh-blath-er

Sentence: When Leo gets a tough programming problem he begins to talk to himself and his computer. His psychoblather has been known to send much of the office to an early lunch. Sometimes they will bring him lunch or a large bag of candies just to occupy his mouth for a while.

Etymology: psycho (mentally strange) + blather (chatter, talk a lot)

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