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DEFINITION: n. A condition where you get so distracted by the fact that you can't find something, that you forget what you were looking for. v. To forget what you are looking for while you are looking for it.
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Seekersblock
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: sikh-errs-blok
Sentence: He knew it would be in the last place he looked, but his seekersblock proved something of an obstacle.
Etymology: From "writer's block" and "seek". Always wonder whether you're allowed 2 separate words, because "seeker's block" would be better here.
Brainmoshed
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: brainmoshed
Sentence: He was so brainmoshed, that he didn't realise the keys in his own hands - and if he would, he would have just put them aside an forgot about them...
Etymology: brain + mosh
Fourofourgot
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: for-oh-four-got
Sentence: Because she suffered from mysplasia, Sue fourofourgot that she was looking for her keys and walked out to her car, content in the fact that she had found the remote.
Etymology: 404 - error message "Not Found"; forgot (literally, to not find, then forget)
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COMMENTS:
I can imagine people of the future using this word... - Discoveria, 2007-03-15: 10:11:00
Speaking of people, I wonder why so many players are 404'd lately. Hope they weren't verbducted to another room. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-15: 11:46:00
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Disfindtional
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: diss + find + shun + ull
Sentence: I got so upset over my missing wallet that I was completely disfindtional. But I did find my mobile phone, at least. Now if I only had some cash...
Etymology: disfunctional + find
Displaceia
Created by: EffingCharms
Pronunciation: dis -place- ee- ahh
Sentence:
Etymology:
Seeknesia
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sēknēzhə
Sentence: Al suffers from seeknesia. Not only does he have trouble finding things, he often forgets what he was looking for in the first place. The results of these slips can sometimes be a bit shocking like the time he went out to shovel his sidewalk and realized that what he had been looking for before seeknesia struck was twofold, his snow shovel and his pants.
Etymology: seek (attempt to find something) + amnesia (a partial or total loss of memory)
Distrocupied
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: (dis-TROC-you-PIED)
Sentence: He was so distrocupied with looking for the remote that after he forgot and walked to the tv to turn it on.
Etymology: "Distract" (to change your attention to something else), and "preoccupy" (engross one's thought into, such as finding something)
Stumblesearch
Created by: Maureen
Pronunciation: stum-ble-ser-ch
Sentence: John's gone for another one of his stumblesearches and he'll soon be asking us what it was he was looking for.
Etymology: stumble- from stumbling block when one draws a blank. search - to look for something.
Disconcentracted
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: diss kon sent rack ted
Sentence: He was so disconcentracted that not only did he forget his mission, it took him four hours to remember that he had forgotten it.
Etymology: concentrated, distracted
Resclueless
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: res kloo less
Sentence: Les often forgot what he was looking for even as he was hunting it. He was resclueless. He even forgot to look for his girlfriend Ruth when she ran off with the paper boy. He still searches Ruthlessly for her...or something.
Etymology: Rescue (recover, retrieve) & Clueless (not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring;having forgotten all)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by mana1066.
Thank you mana1066! ~ James
I do believe in the UK the DJ on Radio 2 called Terry Wogan calls this a senior moment but thats two words.
Funny thing is that it's been happening to me since I was a kid... Do think it's going to get worse as I get older?
Today's definition was suggested by mana1066. Thank you mana1066. ~ James