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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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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:
Mentaldamage
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: mental damage
Sentence: I am not an idiot, i am suffering from mentaldamage
Etymology: mental and damage.
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)
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
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
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
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
cants for the memories... - Nosila, 2009-08-24: 20:57:00
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Ruminoise
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)
Squeeling
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.
