Verboticisms

Created by: mjmlabs

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: pond + err + or

Sentence: I had this great idea for a new flavor of frozen yogurt but then my brain had a ponderror and I don't know what it was any more.

Etymology: ponder + error

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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: fredm

Pronunciation: deja-lost

Sentence: As soon as she heard it, she had the feeling of dejalost - it was a thought she would never remember.

Etymology: dejalost - from deja (Fr.: already) + forgotten antonymn: "deja vu"

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: roo/muh/nee/zhuh

Sentence: He was contemplating the most brilliant idea for a new e-company when ruminesia set in and all he could remember was that he really wanted a chocolate ice-cream cone.

Etymology: ruminate (think about, ponder) + amnesia

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COMMENTS:

That's what happens when the rumen takes over from the brain. Probably wanted some rumenraisin sauce on his icecream - petaj, 2007-05-21: 03:52:00

not enough room in his IA (intelligent area) - galwaywegian, 2007-05-21: 06:18:00

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Created by: whipspeak

Pronunciation: gon-sept

Sentence: Now I can't remember why I liked this word - it's goncept.

Etymology: concept: Something formed in the mind; a thought or notion + gone: departed; left.

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COMMENTS:

immaculate gonception? - Nosila, 2009-12-04: 18:17:00

:-) inarticulate gonception - whipspeak, 2009-12-04: 19:07:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: roo/muh/nee/zhuh

Sentence: He was contemplating the most brilliant idea for a new e-company when ruminesia set in and all he could remember was that he really wanted a chocolate ice-cream cone.

Etymology: ruminate (think about, ponder) + amnesia

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COMMENTS:

good one - Nosila, 2009-12-04: 18:16:00

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Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: thred-rift

Sentence: I had just the perfect final thought for my paper, but then I lost hold of it and the next minute it was threadrift.

Etymology: Thread (as in thread of an idea or thought) + drift (to move away)

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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: 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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