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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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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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Psychoblather
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sahy-koh-blath-er
Sentence: When Leo gets a tough programming problem he begins to talk to himself and his computer. His psychoblather has been known to send much of the office to an early lunch. Sometimes they will bring him lunch or a large bag of candies just to occupy his mouth for a while.
Etymology: psycho (mentally strange) + blather (chatter, talk a lot)
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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Rodentalyze
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: roh-dent-uh-lize
Sentence: He will rodentalyze the problem until it is solved or until you give him some cardboard to chew.
Etymology: rodent + analyze
Cerebawl
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: ser-i-bol
Sentence: She couldn't bare the sound of his cerebawlling whenever he got writer's block.
Etymology: cerebral (relating to the brain, intellectual) + bawl (to shout or cry loudly)
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COMMENTS:
Call a wah--mbulance! - Nosila, 2011-01-13: 21:37:00
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Modusoperanti
Created by: egonschiela
Pronunciation: mow-dus-oper-an-tie
Sentence: Clive's secretary, with finger to her lips, whispered "He's in modusoperanti again ... the publishers are waiting for the final pages and he's been up all night."
Etymology: from modus operandi (procedural method) + opera (vocal piece) + rant (talk excitedly)
Cratamopu
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: cret-ama-phoe
Sentence: he's still working on his cratamopu
Etymology: crazy talk mouth percussion
Squeekthinking
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: skweek-thin-king
Sentence: While doing his calculus problem set, John's squeekthinking annoyed his wife.
Etymology: Squeek + Thinking
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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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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