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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.
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Memgap
Created by: leomar
Pronunciation: mem-gap
Sentence: memory gap, thats all, lolz!! hahaha!!
Etymology: mem-gap
Dualcoredelete
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: du/al/core/de/lete
Sentence: His brainblurt descended to the ultimate dualcoredelete where he couldn't remember what he was trying to remember, what he couldn't remember.
Etymology: Intel Dual Core processor + delete
Biaphasia
Created by: gazissax
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He was so stricken with biaphasia that he couldn't find the words for what he had lost.
Etymology: From "aphasia" which is loss of ability to remember language; and "bi" meaning double.
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
Losatwa
Created by: leeannhamers
Pronunciation: la-us-aa-twa
Sentence: i was all like losatwa~!
Etymology: lost/ monwatwa
Escalapse
Created by: ScrabbledEgg
Pronunciation: es-kuh-laps
Sentence: He couldn't remember where he set his cellphone, and it just escalapsed from there. Now he's just standing there, gazing into the refrigerator, hoping it has what he needs.
Etymology: escalate (to increase in magnitude, intensity, amount...) + lapse, as in "a lapse of memory"
Flakesearch
Created by: sparkles510
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Matt's continued to flakesearch even though the keys are in his hands.
Etymology:
Neglecate
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: neh-gle-keyt
Sentence: Fred continued to neglecate until Wilma hit him on the head with a frying pan.
Etymology: neglect + locate
Represstigation
Created by: cmcesq
Pronunciation: Re-press-ti-gashun
Sentence: I was looking for something, but I represstigated what it is!
Etymology: Repress + investigation
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.

Comments:
FreeToys - 2007-09-10: 14:01:00
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