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DEFINITION: To be so distracted by the fact that you can't find something, that you forget what you were looking for.
Verboticisms
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Represstigation
Created by: cmcesq
Pronunciation: Re-press-ti-gashun
Sentence: I was looking for something, but I represstigated what it is!
Etymology: Repress + investigation
Recollecticide
Created by: trace45
Pronunciation: rec·ol·lecti·cide
Sentence: When Mary was looking for her purse she experienced recollecticide because her thought in the mind was put to death when she stopped to ask her friend did she know what she was looking for.
Etymology: recollect + cide
Thingamabliv
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: thing-a-MA-bliv
Sentence: Good natured Bob, who couldn't find the TV's remote control, quickly became blank-minded Bob in a thing o' nothing thingamabliv
Etymology: Blend of Thingamajig: anything otherwise unnamed whether through choice or one's inability to recall the correct name & "bliv" from oblivion: forgetfulnss.
Brainlocked
Created by: StigAllan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: You can´t find your keys. Are you totally brainlocked?
Etymology:
Flakesearch
Created by: sparkles510
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Matt's continued to flakesearch even though the keys are in his hands.
Etymology:
Confoundcentration
Created by: loofarama
Pronunciation: con-fownd-sent-tration
Sentence: he was lost in his confoundcentration. Frustrated he left his house, but to his surprise he couldn't lock the door. He wondered why.
Etymology: con-found-it(frustration) + concentration
Zombemused
Created by: FreeToys
Pronunciation: zom - bee - myoozed'
Sentence: Even though he realized he no longer remembered what he was looking for, he continued to stumble around in his zombemused state
Etymology: zombie/bemused
Findset
Created by: graypenguin
Pronunciation: find-set
Sentence: He was stuck in such a findset that he forgot what he was looking for.
Etymology: find + mindset
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)
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COMMENTS:
to be fair, he was probably blindsided - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-10: 12:10:00
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Comments:
FreeToys - 2007-09-10: 14:01:00
zombieseek