Verboticism: Robservation

'What was I looking for?'

DEFINITION: To be so distracted by the fact that you can't find something, that you forget what you were looking for.

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Robservation

Created by: Scrumpy

Pronunciation: rob-zur-vey-shun

Sentence: He was so filled with robversation that he walked past his missing spectacles three times.

Etymology: rob - (to take, deprive) observation - (notice, perceive)

Points: 794

Comments: Robservation

Jabberwocky - 2007-09-10: 12:10:00
to be fair, he was probably blindsided