Verboticism: Mindloss
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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Acumeander
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: ack-you-mee-anda
Sentence: Cinnamon's special topic on mastermind was "spices in Asian cuisine". Once the timer started and the host began asking questions, she began to acumeander. She could no longer think straight and mixed her cardamon with her cumin and the galangal with the ginger.
Etymology: acumen (keenness of mind) + meander (wander around, get sidetracked)
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COMMENTS:
Spicy! - Nosila, 2009-04-16: 02:12:00
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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)
Disconnectedcerebralblankout
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: dis-con-nect-ed-ce-re-bral-blank-out
Sentence: Sable was taking her medical board exam as she suddenly had a "disconnectedcerebralblankout" Not one word or idea or answer would enter her thoughts...as she was so disconnected her mind went completely blank.
Etymology: Disconnected:Not connected,separate; also:incoherent. Cerebral:Of or relating to the brain or the intellect. Blank:Appearing or causing to appear dazed,confounded. Out:So as to be missing or displaced from the usual or proper place.
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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Mindloss
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: myned loss
Sentence: Trying to ace her finals, Becky found herself in a mindloss state. That little train of thought that normally put-puts around inside her noggin had become derailed and might not reach its station in time...I wish I could, I wish I could, she chanted.
Etymology: Mind (brain, intellect,reasoning powers) & Loss (decline in amount or activity)
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Brainout
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: bray-n-ow-t
Sentence: David was experiencing major brainout when on jeopardy, and was asked "This is the color yellow and blue make". He answered "What is purple?". He felt even worse when watching and noticed he and all the other players were wearing green shirts that day.
Etymology: Play on blankout. Brain (your thinker!) + out (forgetting, drawing a blank, OR as in external, not with you)
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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Transcendentaldeprivation
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: tranz-en-dentl-dep-ruhv-AY-shun
Sentence: Gerald had recurring episodes of transcendentaldeprivation and particularly so when he was trying to show off his imaginary mental agility wherein his mind would wander completely off topic causing him to lose his train of thought entirely.
Etymology: Blend of 'transcendental' (being beyond ordinary or common experience, thought, or belief; supernatural) and 'deprivation',(dispossession; loss) a play on the term 'transcendental meditation'.
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
Epiphanot
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ih-pif-uh-not
Sentence: Sarah studied diligently for the test but when time came to show what she knew, she was struck with an epiphanot. As Curly of Three Stooges fame said, "I'm trying to think but nothing happens".
Etymology: epiphany (a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something) + not (negative result)