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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.

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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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Autogibber

Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: awe-toe-jib-burr

Sentence: Daniel had a habit of autogibbering loudly when stumped by difficult questions.

Etymology: auto+gibber, from Greek auto- (self) and gibberish (nonsense).

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COMMENTS:

My first verboticism. Enjoy. - Discoveria, 2007-01-24: 20:39:00

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Whininking

Created by: ubgrud

Pronunciation: why-nink-ing

Sentence: "When you add these search operators, then... hmmmmm" he whininkinged to himself, shattering the glass on the corner of his desk.

Etymology: whine-think

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Psychoticbabble

Created by: Sed8ed

Pronunciation: sigh-cot-tick-ba-bell

Sentence: Ron used the pshychoticbabble technique when he was doing quantum physics problems.

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Mensatwitter

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: men-sa-twit-a

Sentence: Hearing impaired members of the intelligent society often complain that the mensatwitter at their meetings makes it hard to follow proceedings. But nevertheless they cannot help twittering to themselves as they engage in intellectual exercises.

Etymology: Mensa (qualification for membership of which was a high IQ) + twitter (sound of birds chirping)

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COMMENTS:

Funny! Also sounds like something that "men", rather than women, do. - wordmeister, 2007-01-24: 07:48:00

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Cogsqueaktation

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: koj skweek tay shun

Sentence: Shelley knew every time when Mortimer was trying to come up with a new Verbotomy word because she could hear his cogsqueaktation all the way from upstairs. It was like the sound of very rusty bedsprings being scraped down a blackboard and it made her wince.

Etymology: Cogitation (attentive consideration and meditation;a carefully considered thought about something)& Squeak (a high-pitched, screeching noise)

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Smartycants

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: smart - ee - kants

Sentence: When Edward Eisen started thinking, we heard the unique and often soprano pitched sounds of his smartycants emerging from the quiet of the classroom, library or whatever room he happened to be using for his study.

Etymology: smarty, cants (musical singing sounds,the jargon of a particular class or subgroup), play on "smarty pants)

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COMMENTS:

Tee hee! Bravo Cantore! - mrskellyscl, 2009-08-24: 07:46:00