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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.
Verboticisms
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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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Einstymied
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: īnstīmēd
Sentence: Randall is the youngest ever in his school to take Master's-level physics. Some call him a prodigy. Today he feels more like a brick of prodicheese. He is completely Einstymied by the test in front of him. Apparently his brain has gone back to bed without him.
Etymology: Einstein (a genius) + stymied (prevent or hinder the progress of)
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COMMENTS:
ha ha! well done! - splendiction, 2009-04-15: 21:36:00
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Lapsody
Created by: fabdiva
Pronunciation: lap-so-dee
Sentence: Jake was bemused by the fact he had forgotten a whole page of his clarinet solo previously committed to memory - a lapsody in blue, as it were.
Etymology: lapse - a temporary failure of concentration, memory or judgement. rhapsody - an effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling.
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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Duhmentia
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dəmenshə
Sentence: His doctor told him there was no sign of dementia but Rudy knows he has days where duhmentia is the order of the day. It might be unwrapping something to eat, tossing the food in the trash leaving him with a wrapper in hand and a dumb look on his face or walking from one room to another with a task in mind only to forget why he went there. There was something else but I can’t remember it just now.
Etymology: duh (used to comment on an action perceived as foolish or stupid) + dementia (a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning)
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COMMENTS:
perfect - karenanne, 2010-10-29: 11:56:00
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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
Brainwreck
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: brayn-rehk
Sentence: "Ah Choo Choo," Tallulah exclaimed, looking down at her test paper. She had lost her train of thought. She had forgotten to take her meds and a brainwreck had taken place at the crossroads of Synapse and Catalyst.
Etymology: Playing on TRAINWRECK
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COMMENTS:
A great word! - splendiction, 2009-04-15: 20:08:00
Excellent! - Mustang, 2009-04-16: 00:21:00
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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)
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
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)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
abrakadeborah - 2009-04-16: 20:11:00
Metro,YOU ROCK! :)
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James