Verboticism: Mislaidea
DEFINITION: n. A lost thought; v. To become distracted and lose track of what you were thinking.
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Braindrain
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: breyn-dreyn
Sentence: Jill had a lot of great ideas going into the meeting but her braindrain was pulled when she saw Brian sitting in the conference room. She had such a crush on him that she just felt numbstruck.
Etymology: brain (mind; intellect) + drain (to exhaust the resources of)
Ideaotomy
Created by: grasshopper
Pronunciation: idea-otomy
Sentence: Dr.'s have recently put a name to the symptoms of a constant lose of though now known as ideaotomy
Etymology: idea-to have a thought otomy- the removal of something idea/otomy
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COMMENTS:
That's a pretty cool word.I suffer from it a lot!! - angelheart, 2007-05-22: 16:14:00
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Lought
Created by: JayBaldo
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: A terrible combo of lost and thought.
Aydeedee
Created by: treyb
Pronunciation: Ey-dee-dee
Sentence: Arg, aydeedee, I forgot what I was going to tell you.
Etymology:
Attentionesia
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: ah ten shun e see ya
Sentence: During her speech a spell of attentionesia swept the next thought from her mind
Etymology: attention + amnesia
Brainfart
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: brAin-fart
Sentence: Jill had a brainfart only 20 minutes into her speech. People noticed her distant stare and puzzled looks as she tried to recall the topic and reason for being at the podium.
Etymology: brain/fart, escape of bodily gas.
Psyskip
Created by: katytee
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "Sorry, had a bit of a baffling little psyskip there...what was I saying again?"
Etymology: psych (i.e stuff to do with the mind) + skip (like what a CD might do)
Blankout
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: BLANC-owt
Sentence: Cynthia and Rupert seemed to be on a connected wavelength, both having moments of blankout where their thoughts just dead ended in confused mental disarray.
Etymology: Blend of 'blank' and 'out', play on the word 'blackout'.
Thurp
Created by: mgood
Pronunciation: th-urp
Sentence: I hope I can recover the thurp I just endured!
Etymology: combined thought with burp!
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COMMENTS:
I've had a thurp before myself. - texmom, 2007-05-23: 00:22:00
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