Verboticisms

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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Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: GAWN-sept

Sentence: Dexter was usually full of ideas, but his latest one rapidly turned into a gonecept when his manager suddenly asked Dexter to describe it.

Etymology: Gone (vanished) + concept (idea)

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love it! - galwaywegian, 2012-09-14: 08:02:00

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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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Created by: angelheart

Pronunciation: Crania-FLAT-u-ence

Sentence: "I'm really suffering from a bad case of craniaflatuence"

Etymology: Crania-pertaining to the head or brain Flatuence-having excess gas in the system

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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: thaw - tuh - TAH [just say the last two syllables in a staccato accent] phonemic symbols: /θɔːt - tʌ - tɑː'/

Sentence: Thalia thautatad and her thought then turn to a thorough thautata. Thin thoughts turn out to be thautatas when thoughtless Thalia thinks thin thoughts-- a thoughtless thinking method we know now as thautata.

Etymology: "thought" + tata [goodbye in a more smexi manner]

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Created by: newworldview

Pronunciation: sin-apt

Sentence: Their loud talking on the train synapped my idea for a new invention.

Etymology: synapse + kidnapped

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Created by: Carria

Pronunciation:

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Etymology: From latin pēnsāre "think " and amnesia

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Created by: katytee

Pronunciation:

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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Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: mis-ley-DEE-uh

Sentence: No one could recall the name of Gabriel's play; Randall chalked it up as a meager mislaidea, but Julia was determined to overcome the rememberference.

Etymology: mislaid + idea

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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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