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DEFINITION: n. The inability to find, organize, or keep track of, simple physical objects. Often occurs when an individual has developed a search-engine dependency. v. To search for something that should be easy to find.
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Deegle
Created by: hairydoginparis
Pronunciation: dee-gull
Sentence: I wish I could deegle my car keys when I lose them.
Etymology: desire+google
Socknology
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: sock nowl edgy
Sentence: brian just could not get his head around socknology, it completely alluded him.
Etymology: from socks and technology
Beingaman
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: bee-ing-a-man
Sentence: Of course, this ineptitude could quite easily be credited to beingaman
Etymology: Obvious, surely?
Ramnesia
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: RAM-knee-zha
Sentence: Jim can track down the latest Lindsay Lohan photos in 12 seconds flat online, but he developed ramnesia when it was time to pay his credit card bills.
Etymology: RAM (random access memory) + amnesia
Paladotisch
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: Pa-la-do-tisch
Sentence: .....it's paladotisch
Etymology:
Somebuggerswipeditdotcom
Created by: egonschiela
Pronunciation: sum-bug-r-swiped-it.com
Sentence: It's gone. Lost. Missing. Stolen. Just plain not here. My only option is to use Somebuggerswipeditdotcom - they'll find it for me!
Etymology: Well, I wrote it down on a bit of paper, but I can't find it anywhere ...
Depoogle
Created by: Hjason
Pronunciation: de-poo-gle
Sentence: I can't seem to find my pictures of Ernest Borgnine(spelling?)(George Carlin reference) because I have such a depoogle.
Etymology: depend+google
Parapherfailure
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: pa-ra-fer-fayl-yer
Sentence: Once out of cyberspace, his parapherfailure meant he couldn't locate the keys.
Etymology: From "paraphernalia" and "failure".
Googleptic
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: goo-gel-ep-tic
Sentence: James was standing naked in his bedroom. He couldn't find his socks. He grabbed his iphone which was strapped to his hip -- that's right he slept with it and nothing else. He texted his socks. They didn't reply. He twittered them. No response. He phoned. No answer. So he googled his name plus socks and found a post on his blog which said "Look in sock drawer". And thank goodness he did, otherwise he would have had a googleptic fit.
Etymology: google + epilepsy
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COMMENTS:
good word... - mweinmann, 2009-08-11: 07:44:00
googlepic word - Nosila, 2009-08-11: 12:20:00
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