Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: am nee zhe ayk

Sentence: When stressed, Maggie became distracted and found herself with an amnesiache. When that old train of thought gets derailed, it's a pain in the caboose.

Etymology: Amnesia (partial or total loss of memory) & Ache (have a desire for something or someone who is not present)

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: BLANC-owt

Sentence: Cynthia and Rupert seemed to be on a connected wavelength, both having moments of blankout where their thoughts just dead ended in confused mental disarray.

Etymology: Blend of 'blank' and 'out', play on the word 'blackout'.

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Created by: guesser

Pronunciation: dis-brain-Ea

Sentence: I don't know which is worse, disbrainia or brain freeze, both make my head hurt!

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Created by: daisy

Pronunciation: blank-i-fide

Sentence: I was blankified during the big test - was it George Washington or Dick Cheney who sailed across the Delaware?

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Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: ah ten shun e see ya

Sentence: During her speech a spell of attentionesia swept the next thought from her mind

Etymology: attention + amnesia

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: ir ret treev ab ilitee

Sentence: It happened again. Brianna had another irritrievability session. Her train of thought had become derailed again. It was like being an amnesiac in a soap opera. She could not remember anything from a second ago, nevermind longer. It all started when she began dating her co-star, Drew A. Blanc. He seemed to have no memory at all. Probably a good thing in Hollywood, but a bad thing for her...had they had their first kiss, gotten married, had a child? Who knew??? All that Brianna did know was that she would have to get back on the Ginko-Biloba again soon, or her career might be over! Whoulda thought????

Etymology: Irretrievable (impossible to recover or recoup or overcome) & Irritate (annoy;disturb, especially by minor irritations) & Ability (possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done).

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: breyn-dreyn

Sentence: Jill had a lot of great ideas going into the meeting but her braindrain was pulled when she saw Brian sitting in the conference room. She had such a crush on him that she just felt numbstruck.

Etymology: brain (mind; intellect) + drain (to exhaust the resources of)

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Created by: grasshopper

Pronunciation: idea-otomy

Sentence: Dr.'s have recently put a name to the symptoms of a constant lose of though now known as ideaotomy

Etymology: idea-to have a thought otomy- the removal of something idea/otomy

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COMMENTS:

That's a pretty cool word.I suffer from it a lot!! - angelheart, 2007-05-22: 16:14:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: blink/ling

Sentence: Several times a day I get an earth shattering blinkling but then in an instant, it's gone

Etymology: inkling + blink

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COMMENTS:

Hey Jabber... Congrats on your win last week! Well deserved! - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-21: 18:02:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sliptkägnəzənt

Sentence: Much like the old quote from the Three Stooges, ”I’m trying to think but nothing happens” John can lose a thought before it he can even finish formulating it. In a slippedcognizant moment he can even forget the Alamo.

Etymology: slipped cog (mental mistake) + cognizant (having knowledge or being aware of)

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