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'What's that stupid sound?'

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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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.

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Mentaldamage

Created by: josje

Pronunciation: mental damage

Sentence: I am not an idiot, i am suffering from mentaldamage

Etymology: mental and damage.

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Thinkophony

artr

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)

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Whininking

ubgrud

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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Shrillstorm

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: shrel/storm

Sentence: When the pressure is on to produce at work, he sits in a corner and shrillstorms ideas to the annoyance of his colleagues.

Etymology: shrill + brainstorm

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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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Vocognetto

Created by: ArsMajika

Pronunciation: VOH-cog-neh-TOH

Sentence: "Tod has the most annoying vocognetto... he sounds like a damn chipmunk whenever he's programming."

Etymology: Vocalization + Cognition + Falsetto

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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:

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

cants for the memories... - Nosila, 2009-08-24: 20:57:00

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Ruminoise

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: roōmənoiz

Sentence: Roy isn’t normally one to ponder deep subjects very often. When he does the ruminoise can be deafening.

Etymology: ruminate (think deeply about something) + noise (a sound, esp. one that is loud or unpleasant or that causes disturbance)

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Squeeling

erasmus

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: squ eeeeeeeeee ling

Sentence: Frank was squeeling at his screen so loud even Dave came out of his office to tell him to pipe down.

Etymology: from squeal squeak and all those sorts of noises.

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