Verboticism: Duhmentia
DEFINITION: n. An out-of-body, or out-of-brain, experience which occurs when faced with a demanding intellectual challenge. v. To lose your train of thought while trying to demonstrate your intellectual prowess.
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Cerabrasion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sera bray zhun
Sentence: Sarah Bellam was normally an intelligent girl, who aced exams and got high marks without even studying. That was until today. She sat at the exam desk and suffered a serious bout of cerebrasion. She could not even concentrate on the questions, nevermind supply lucid answers. She was out of her gourd and feeling melon-choly. This was because last night, the man of her dreams, Harry Honeydew, had asked her to run away with him and get married. Sure, she was tempted, but at 18, she knew she did not have the courgette to defy her parents and give up her education or her Mellon scholarship. She squashed his romantic overtures and played back in her mind the words she worried she may later come to regret,"No, I cantaloupe with you Harry!"
Etymology: Cerebrate (use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments) & Abrasion (erosion by friction, being worn down)
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COMMENTS:
This is clever, funny and perfect! - mweinmann, 2009-04-15: 08:47:00
Super names and super verbotomies! Very Brainy! :-) - silveryaspen, 2009-04-15: 11:58:00
Excellent! - splendiction, 2009-04-15: 21:44:00
Definitely something to cerebrate. - Mustang, 2009-04-16: 00:22:00
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Knowitnot
Created by: peenookie
Pronunciation: Like know it all...
Sentence: My boss is trying to tell me how this works?! He is such a knowitnot, he wouldn't know the how to handle this even if he had the policy and procedure book in front of him.
Etymology: know it all and not knowing it = knowitnot
Slipnaughts
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: slip naughts
Sentence: Mr. S. M. Arty Pants pompously pontificated his perspicacious perceptions perpetually. People paid little attention to his weary, dreary, tiresome tedious technical talking. Suddenly, his speech suspended when his mind suffered slipnaughts and left him tied up in silence.
Etymology: SLIP, NAUGHT, SLIPKNOTS. When a mind slips (falls)into naughts (nothings), it becomes all slipknotted (tied up) in silence.
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COMMENTS:
hahaha....slipknots are pefect...they can go either way, as evidenced by Mr. Arty Pants... - mweinmann, 2009-04-15: 08:49:00
- great blending, crafty name "Smarty Pants" and effective alliteration! Stunning. - splendiction, 2009-04-15: 21:35:00
I'm shcpitting on my schreeen az I read your "slipnaughts" and I'm perpetually shaying you're obshurevayshuns are schpot on! :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-16: 18:50:00
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Intellectrance
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: inn-tell-eck-trance
Sentence: When she entellectranced during her exam and left most of the answers blank, she realised later that all was not lost. That night while she slept she rattled off the answers perfectly in sequence while she talked in her sleep. Her husband, oblivious and never waking up to her droning voice, suddenly became highly educated on women's studies and gender analysis, constructions and intersections of race, class, age, ability and sexuality in popular culture, everyday life, the arts, the sciences, politics, societies, and the economy.
Etymology: intellect + trance (as in dazed)
Conundumb
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ko nun dum
Sentence: It was her worst nightmare. Mary Jane had studied hard for her finals. In fact, she'd spent hours cramming in knowledge for the big day. She'd answered every multiple choice question and felt confident that her answer was the right one in each case. All finished, she just had to complete the top portion with her personal information. She froze when it asked for her address and phone number. Having just moved, she could not for the life of her remember them. AAAgh! What a conundumb and her not allowed to open her purse. She obviously had crammed too much intense trivia in her brain cells and bumped out a simple sequence of numbers. Time's up, Mary Jane!
Etymology: Conundrum (a difficult problem;enigma;something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained;riddle) & Dumb (slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;stupid)
Knowpiate
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: no - pee - et
Sentence: Sigmund sat for his bar exams on Wednesday but for some reason, he felt like he had taken a knowpiate....everything he thought he knew was suppressed somehow and his brain felt foggy.
Etymology: knowledge, know, opiate (opiates dull the senses, suppress the activity of the central nervous system)
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COMMENTS:
Excellent blending of words! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-15: 11:56:00
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Fogginnoggin
Created by: memyselfandbo
Pronunciation: fog-in-nog-in
Sentence: Cynthia stared blankly at the words starting to swirl on her test paper. She couldn't believe that she was pulling a fogginnoggin during the most important test of her life! Why couldn't she remember the actors on the original cast of Barney the Dinosaur? WHY!?!?
Etymology: fog: to make obscure or confusing. noggin: a person's head.
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COMMENTS:
Good word! - splendiction, 2009-04-15: 21:37:00
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Ramjammed
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: ram-jammed
Sentence: Margaret wondered if she may have studied a little too hard the night before her test when she realized she had gotten cram ramjammed trying to access the data.
Etymology: RAM: random access memory (memory; storage on a computer) jammed: to get stuck or blocked; crammed in too tightly
Inspelligence
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: in SPELL i gence
Sentence: Brian’s last question from the audience stupefied him. “Well, the truthh izz....” He lost his train of thought mid-sentence, hesitated, then launched into a full inspelligence of senseless blubbering. “Andi oeej f iaoe uck sjdi...” This got worse! Was he speaking meaningless drivellence or an obscure language? Moments later, he snapped to alertness to ask: who he was, where he was and why him? It was a stroke of ingenious speculation.
Etymology: From intelligent and spell: to fall into a trance-like state while exercising one's intelligence.
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COMMENTS:
Inspellbinding - Nosila, 2009-04-16: 02:14:00
“Andi oeej f iaoe uck sjdi...” - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-17: 03:36:00
My whole comment didn't show... What the “Andi oeej f iaoe uck sjdi...?” Good one! :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-17: 03:38:00
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Cranidumb
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kray nee dum
Sentence: Marcia was experiencing an episode of cranidumb while she was writing her finals. She could not even complete the multiple choice questions because she temporarily had forgotten enything she ever knew. Forget about joining MENSA, she needed to find an Alzheimer's specialist quickly...
Etymology: Cranium (part of the skull that encloses the brain) & Dumb (not smart)
