Verboticism: Monotasker
DEFINITION: n. A person who gets completely disoriented whenever they try to do more that one thing at a time. v. To make a big mess because you are trying to do too many things at once.
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Conflusterrent
Created by: dochanne
Pronunciation: Con-flust-err-ent
Sentence: Texting on his phone while walking led Daniel to first add "tree" to the message unintentionally, then walk into it. When trying to gather his papers and talk to the woman who came to his help he found himself confabulating out of befuddlement, messhandling everything until he became quite conflusterrent and babbled senselessly. He found this whole muddletasking thing quite multying.
Etymology: Concurrent - at the same time; Confluence - coming together or occuring together; Fluster - confused and addled by too many things to do!; Err - error or mistake.
Ambimesstrous
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: am bee mess truss
Sentence: Most women who are charged with a career, raising a family and keeping a home are ambidextrous multitaskers. Unfortunately, opposites attract, so they tend to get mates who are ambimesstrous. While the woman feeds a baby, irons a shirt for work, packs the lunches, cooks breakfast and ices the cupcakes for kindergarten, the husband stands in front of an open fridge, in front of the milk, shouting "Honey, where's the milk to put in my coffee, I can't see it anywhere?" He's not dressed yet, because she has not told him what to wear and where to find it and he ignores the starving cat and dog, who just want fresh water and food. They know that Mom will get it for them in a moment...
Etymology: Ambidextrous(equally skillful with each hand) & Mess (a state of confusion and disorderliness; informal terms for a difficult situation;make a mess of or create disorder in)
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COMMENTS:
Very funny! :-) - emdeejay, 2009-05-13: 02:35:00
I can identify. - Mustang, 2009-05-13: 07:57:00
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Distasker
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: dihs-tahs-ker
Sentence: Whether it was calculated or not, every time Rip Van Winkle tried to do anything other than sleep, he showed his nagging wife he was a real distasker.
Etymology: Playing on DISASTER, using DIS/not + TASK/ a piece of work, usually assigned
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COMMENTS:
really like this word! - splendiction, 2009-05-13: 22:46:00
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Complextrophe
Created by: BeauKnows
Pronunciation: Complex-Tro-fee
Sentence:
Etymology: Complex:Composed of many interconnected parts. Catastrophe:A sudden and widespread disaster.
Multitrashing
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: multi trash ing
Sentence: Bruno prided himself on being a superman when it came to accomplishing a lot. The reality is that he could never do more than one thing at a time without leaving a trail behind him. His wife, Hilda figured he was good at multitrashing. She got the vacuum out for the sixth time that day to clean up his tv-watching pile of debris. Then it hit her, I am enabling him. She tossed the vacuum at him and told him to multitask..."Breath, walk and vacuum at the same time...if you can!"
Etymology: Multitasking (the activity of doing more than one thing at the same time)& Trashing (making a mess;express a totally negative opinion of)
Multibasketcase
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: mull/tee/bas/ket/case
Sentence: Sam was a complete multibasketcase whenever Sally asked him to help with the housework. In the end it was safer to do it on her own.
Etymology: multitask + basket case
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - Nosila, 2009-05-13: 19:19:00
So true Jabber! Kudos to you again! :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-05-14: 10:34:00
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Multifail
Created by: wizzbritt
Pronunciation: Mul-tee-fay-ul
Sentence: I tried to brush my teeth while feeding the baby and jogging on the treadmill but ended up multi failing.
Etymology: Multi: more than one Fail: be unsucessful
Attentiondelicate
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: a TEN tion del i cat
Sentence: Jim’s attentiondelicate disorder required he focus on one activity at a time. Even the simplest multitasking would be disastrous, even lethal, for Jim. One such disaster occurred the time he really wanted to fit in at movie night and eat popcorn while watching a movie. Jim stuffed popcorn in his mouth and forgot to chew, requiring the aid of eleven movie-goers and two attendants.
Etymology: From attention and delicate - a variation of "attention deficit disorder".
Ambiklutzerous
Created by: DrWebsterIII
Pronunciation: am' bee - kluts - er- us
Sentence: Yvonne knows how ambiklutzerous William is. She loves him dearly though, even more than the scotch guard.!
Etymology: ambi (around, both, ) + klutz (clumsy, awkward) + dexterous (w/o the dexterity)
Multitaxing
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: muhl-tee-tak-sing
Sentence: Nobody wants to admit how slow-witted Jeremy is, afterall, he is the boss. Doing more than one thing at a time is multitaxing for him. He often has to hold his breath to form a thought.
Etymology: multitasking (the carrying out of two or more tasks at the same time by one person) + taxing (to make heavy demands on; strain)
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