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DEFINITION: n. A lost thought; v. To become distracted and lose track of what you were thinking.

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Damnesia

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: dam nee sha

Sentence: You know the feeling...you go into a room, but forget why you went. You see someone familiar but cannot recall their name. You put your keys down, but cannot find them as you race around getting ready to go to work. Yes, it's that damnesia. You used to have a photographic memory...but now you keep forgetting to buy film for it. Your memory is now like a pen that runs out of ink. You have crossed into a new dementia, The Whywrite Zone.

Etymology: Damn (expletives used informally as intensifiers) & Amnesia (total or partial loss of memory)

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Blinkling

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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Psyskip

Created by: katytee

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Sentence: "Sorry, had a bit of a baffling little psyskip there...what was I saying again?"

Etymology: psych (i.e stuff to do with the mind) + skip (like what a CD might do)

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Mushbrain

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: mush-brayn

Sentence: People over 35 begin to receive mushbrains more frequently as they age and this usually marks the onset of rotting from the inside- otherwise known as the aging process.

Etymology: mush (a thick, soft mass, can mold into a loaf for slicing and frying) brain (the grey & white matter between your ears)

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Irritrieveability

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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