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DEFINITION: v. To talk to yourself in a high-pitched, squeaky voice while performing complex mental gymnastics.n. The sounds a person makes when they are trying to think.
Verboticisms
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Cackleculate
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: cak/l/cu/layt
Sentence: He would cackleculate so loudly when he was thinking up words for verbotomy that his girlfriend recorded it for Halloween and got him a cauldron to sit on
Etymology: cackle + calculate
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COMMENTS:
The kids must been scared! But how did his girlfriend cope? - wordmeister, 2007-01-24: 14:51:00
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Thoughtditory
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: thot dit toree
Sentence: Cousin Eddy's thoughtditory process was to squeak, honk and make animal noises while compiling his April returns. April herself found it all very taxing...
Etymology: Thought(the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about) & Auditory (of or relating to the process of hearing)
Intermensacousticate
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: inter mensa coo stick ate
Sentence: Albert Einstein while at work, could while away hours twiddling his hb pencil, occasionally intermensacousticating out of the corner of his mouth.
Etymology:
Mentalgymnasteeks
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: men tahl jim nas teeks
Sentence: They were not ordinary eeks. they were mentalgymnasteeks, but unfortunately the examiner had no sense of perspective.
Etymology: mental gymnastics, eek
Squinking
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: skwing-king
Sentence: At work, Frank had a lovely time. Nobody would give him anything to do, because no one could stand his squinking!
Etymology: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++ squeek - sound of a mouse. ++++++++++ ++++++ thinking - to constructively use ones brain +++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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COMMENTS:
Leader of the squins! - Alchemist, 2007-01-25: 02:44:00
You beat me to it. Good word, IMHO. - petaj, 2007-01-24: 04:32:00
I love the sound of this one! - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-24: 13:37:00
Yeah, "squink" sounds funny... perfect! - wordmeister, 2007-01-24: 14:52:00
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Cognotweeterlalia
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: kawg-noh-tweet-ur-LALE-yah
Sentence: Connie was used to my cognotweeterlalia, but it annoyed the heck out of the dog, who thought it was a rodent or something...
Etymology: cogno (think) + tweeter + lalo (greek "I speak")
Thinkophony
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: θingkəkäfənē
Sentence: Rob once watched a scientific special that showed a group of geniuses attending a symposium. He noted that a number of them made audible noises as they thought. In a misguided effort to boost his own mental abilities, he began what his friends have deemed thinkophony, grunting, squealing and snorting as he contemplated world issues. All it accomplished was expulsion from the library club.
Etymology: think (direct one*s mind toward someone or something) + cacophony (a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds)
Thoughticulate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: thot tik yoo layt
Sentence: Kim could always tell when Sheldon was having a brainstorm. His process to thoughticulate involved making weird sounds, similar to dolphins calling to coyotes. His heretofore mental constipation would erupt into a noisy verbal diarrhea...That was why she panelled his office in sound-proof materials.
Etymology: Thought (the process of thinking, especially thinking carefully) & Articulate (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way;expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language)
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COMMENTS:
I wonder what the coyotes would think of dolphin talk? - artr, 2009-08-24: 11:21:00
They would probably wonder at the porpoise of it all... - Nosila, 2009-08-24: 20:54:00
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Brainiyak
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: brA-nEE-yak
Sentence: Jill listened in on her brainiyak boyfriend as he conversed to himself, figuring the solution to an astrophysics formula.
Etymology: brain, smart person/maniac, strange or eccentric/ yak, to talk
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COMMENTS:
good one toadstool! - wordmeister, 2007-01-24: 07:45:00
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Brainleak
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: brain-leak
Sentence: Bill had brainleak and would often talk to himself out loud while thinking.
Etymology: brain + leak
