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DEFINITION: n. A special ability lets you focus on the big picture without getting distracted by those busy little details. v. To skip over the details while focusing on the big picture.
Verboticisms
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Nayslaying
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: nay/slay/ing
Sentence: As a result of his nayslaying abilities, George figured the world would be a better place ...but what he hadn't counted on was the lack of sustained applause from the peanut gallery.
Etymology: nay + slaying
Igfocumate
Created by: santasassassin
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: I dont even know.
Fixoid
Created by: paperhoard
Pronunciation: fix-oid
Sentence: He was able to fixoid on her cleavage like a deer caught in a head light despite repeated warnings from his giggling coworkers.
Etymology: fixate - to concentrate or focus + avoid - to ignore.
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COMMENTS:
I bet he can bambooble with the best of them as well! (Bambooble - to "accidentally" bump into a woman's breasts.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-26: 07:55:00
Absolutely - poor Jim.... - paperhoard, 2007-01-26: 09:43:00
I wish I could devise some sort of nippalarm so I could see it coming...BEEP, BEEP, BEEP! - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-26: 10:49:00
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Trifleblindness
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /'trI-f&l-"blInd-n&s/
Sentence: Sometimes the debate between holism and reductionism is really an argument between trifleblindness and obsessive-compulsion.
Etymology: From trifle + blindness
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COMMENTS:
Ah, those silly little trifles, if only I was blind to them... Maybe I should deal with the trifles with a rifle, like our good friend the Alchemist. - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 00:58:00
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Treeblindness
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: TREE-blind-ness
Sentence: Al, a "can't see the forest for the trees" kinda guy, never made it to the campout because he spent all day assembling his survival kit. Jim, who suffered from treeblindness, got there early. So early that it was too dark to see the cliff he walked over.
Etymology: "Can't see the forest for the trees," reversed, + nightblindness
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COMMENTS:
Good one. - ErWenn, 2007-01-29: 00:34:00
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Forestsense
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: for-est-sentz
Sentence: Polly's forestsense made her particularly qualified to be president of the optimists' club.
Etymology: From the phrase "can't see the forest for the trees"
Horizonized
Created by: Buzzardbilly
Pronunciation: hə-ˈrī-zən-rīzd
Sentence: v. He was so horizonized that he could never focus on how to pay attention to the little details of how to reach a big goal. Instead, he stumbled through life unable to see the potholes because he couldn't stop focusing on the horizon. n. His horizonization was the worst. The man walked around with bees on his face, his fly unzipped, and some part of breakfast dangling from a lip corner, yet he was completely oblivious to it all because he was a slave to the big picture but a zombie on the day-to-day.
Etymology: Horizon - the boundary one sees in the furthest distance where sky meets earth as far as they eye believes. Also from Greek present participle of horizein meaning "to bound, define" and Mesmerize - Which is the eponymous word for what F.A. Mesmer did, which was to hypnotize.
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COMMENTS:
Slave and zombie all at once -- great image - jrogan, 2009-08-28: 23:01:00
Great word...horizontal thinking at it's best! - Nosila, 2009-08-28: 23:41:00
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Incongnorance
Created by: protothor
Pronunciation: In-kog-nor-ans
Sentence: Through sheer incongnorance, Mike was able to ignore the throbbing of this severed foot as he placed first in the special olympics.
Etymology: Incongruous;out of place; inappropriate; unbecoming. Ignorance; to be ignorant; The condition of being unaware, or uninformed.
Buzzbiggle
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: buzz-big-le
Sentence: He buzzbiggled his way into the honey pot, but was sad to discover it wasn't as sweet as he thought it would bee.
Etymology: buzz+big
Comments:
ErWenn - 2007-01-27: 09:53:00
Lots of good ones today.
wordmeister - 2007-01-27: 23:48:00
Yeah, it's very confuzzling! There's a stingleminded farblightness to many of the words... Excellent!