Verboticism: Dejaknew
DEFINITION: n. The moment of loss, hesitation and confusion, which occurs when you enter a room and immediately forget why. v. To forget why you entered a room.
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Epiphafail
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: a piffa fail
Sentence: Walking gingerly out the door for work I realized I had forgotten my lunch. Upon entering my apartment, I had an epiphafail, my memory deceiving me and I had no idea why I had come back to my apartment.
Etymology: epiphany + FAIL
Locoblivation
Created by: Saylor
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She strode into the room, sure of her purpose but not even a foot past the threshold, locoblivation came upon her.
Etymology: locus, Latin: place obliviscor, Latin: forget location-related amnesia
Lethambulate
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: leth-AM-byuh-late
Sentence: Yesterday worn out by the aging-process, irresolution and a few too many drops of Irish whiskey, I choose sleep rather than my daily dose of Verbotomy. However, in the middle of the night something - some strange verbotomy voodoo, perhaps, hellbent on wrecking my sleep caused me to open my eyes and sit up, wide awake and listen intently. I thought i could hear a voice, saying "verbotomy, verbotomy, verbotomy!" Soon after I found myself sitting in front of my computer, confused, dumbstruck and disorientated. Not knowing what I had planned to do there, I lethambulated back to bed. Next morning upon telling Roxie of my strange experience, she said, "I think you misheard, it was probably your own mind telling you that you need a lobotomy!"
Etymology: Conflation of LETH:forget, forgetfulness & AMBULATE:to walk.
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COMMENTS:
Your up-otomy stoy got a big laugh-otomy! I think someone gave your mind a wiz-otomy for you are a wizard the way you weave magic with sentences and words! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-22: 10:44:00
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Whyunwise
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: why - un - wise
Sentence: Whynona, lived in a whyte house. She walked down her whyte hall, to her whybrary room, but when she got there, she asked herself "Why?" Over and over, her searching mind, asked the eternal whyning question: "Why am I here?." By and by, she had to admit she did not know. She remained whyunwise! Shelving it, for the time being, she was heard muttering "Anybody got a whys cracker?"
Etymology: Why: asking for a reason. Unwise: not having the answer. Abreviated form: y & y's ... related to m & m's ... cause I'm wishing this were a sweeter creation ... instead of the usual so and so!
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COMMENTS:
Oh ... by the way ... Whynona's house is not in Whyoming! Her song of the day is Why? Why, oh why did I ever leave Whyoming." - silveryaspen, 2008-03-21: 01:33:00
I don't know why, but I love the story. Maybe Whynona will see a whynoceros if she drinks enough whyne. Why, Why, Why, DeWhywa??? - Nosila, 2008-03-21: 02:05:00
I am enjoying your enhancements above ... to story and music both! That is much better song! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-21: 02:38:00
whys words - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-21: 11:50:00
Some many questions; some few answers! Great sentence and words! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-22: 00:53:00
I think maybe Whynona is simply a whyner, or maybe a whyar? I would hope she'd whyse up. - Mustang, 2008-03-22: 04:36:00
So glad this was good for inspiring a few more creative laughs! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-22: 14:18:00
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Sublimaction
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: sub-lim-ak-shun
Sentence: Darlene stared blankly at the receptionist as she entered the hospital, dazed with sudden sublimaction. "What the hell am I doing here?" she silently thought, as she reached to quizzically scratch her head with her bloodied stump of an arm.
Etymology: sublimation - to pass directly from a solid to a gas; action - something that is done; thus, the evolution of a solid purpose into an fleeting notion that melts into the ether
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COMMENTS:
very nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-21: 11:47:00
You write horror stories as well as S Crane! Very astute creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-21: 13:30:00
stump - how about sub limb action - petaj, 2008-03-21: 23:49:00
Seems Darlene has been left out on a limb. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-22: 01:05:00
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Flushturd
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: flush/terd
Sentence: She was completely flushturd as she looked around the bathroom. Was she supposed to let out the bathwater or flush the toilet?
Etymology: flustered + flush + (you know)
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COMMENTS:
Another way to say "Oh S**t! when we forget! Wow! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-13: 11:58:00
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Bellipud
Created by: soozay
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
I'm curious about your verboticism. Wish you had done a pronunciation, sentence and etymology. Did you know you get points for each of them ... especially the sentence. I'm looking forward to reading more from you. - silveryaspen, 2008-03-22: 11:31:00
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Celloblivisci
Created by: AetherStar
Pronunciation: SELL-OBLIVion-whISKEY
Sentence: Sarah was cellobliviscing since she forgot why she entered the bathroom. John had a big problem. He entered the shed in complete celloblivisci, and the only reason for being there that he could come up with was 'something to do with the hose'.
Etymology: It's 'cella' (latin for room) plus 'oblivisci' (latin for forget).
Ignoroomus
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /ig-nuh-room-uhs/
Sentence: Heather just stood there, in the kitchen, looking around the room with a vacant expression, experiencing another case of ignoroomus. She'd been standing there for several minutes now, trying to remember what she came in here for, and she realized that she really had to go to the bathroom... which was ironic, since she was just in the bathroom five minutes ago, wondering what she was supposed to be doing there too. Brenda thought about it as she reluctantly returned to the bathroom — she'd recently dyed her hair blonde, and she wondered if her recurring case of ignoroomus was some sort of karmic revenge for all of those blonde jokes she had told over the years. She was so distracted by this thought that, when she entered the bathroom again, she'd forgotten why she was there.
Etymology: blend of; Ignoramus - extremely ignorant person, fool, dunce (from Latin, ignorare "not to know") + room - portion of space within a building (from German, raum "spacious")
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COMMENTS:
Brilliant etymology and blending. A superb creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-21: 01:52:00
very funny Tigger - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-21: 11:42:00
Great work; funny,too! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-22: 01:10:00
Sounds like a case of roomatic fever. - Mustang, 2008-03-23: 05:20:00
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Roomnesia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: room nee shia
Sentence: Zelda was afraid she was getting Alzheimer's because she always forgot why she was going into a room. It was usually called roomnesia, but if she forgot why she went into the kitchen and opened the fridge, it was actually hamnesia, jamnesia, yamnesia (or milk of amnesia). When she went into the closet it was cramnesia. For the computer room it was ramnesia. For the granny flat, it was gramnesia and if she was in the bedroom, it was shamnesia. How she hated that damnesia!
Etymology: Room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling) & Amnesia(forgetfullness;memory loss)