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DEFINITION: To be so distracted by the fact that you can't find something, that you forget what you were looking for.
Verboticisms
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Roomroaming
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: room-roh-ming
Sentence: even though his sunglasses were on his head, he had spent a good five minutes searching for them and then he had spent a further ten minutes roomroaming
Etymology: room, roam
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COMMENTS:
Exactky what happens to me in the situation. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-11: 01:05:00
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Dualcoredelete
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: du/al/core/de/lete
Sentence: His brainblurt descended to the ultimate dualcoredelete where he couldn't remember what he was trying to remember, what he couldn't remember.
Etymology: Intel Dual Core processor + delete
Zombemused
Created by: FreeToys
Pronunciation: zom - bee - myoozed'
Sentence: Even though he realized he no longer remembered what he was looking for, he continued to stumble around in his zombemused state
Etymology: zombie/bemused
Lobotomissed
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: lo-BOT-o-missed
Sentence: Marty was so lobotomissed he failed to realize he was holding his sunglasses in his hands.
Etymology: lobotomy + missed.
Damnesia
Created by: recessivejean
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I had been searching for my lost keys when damnesia kicked in, and I wandered off to the kitchen for a bowl of cereal.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Great word! You should always put in a pronunciation and etymology as well, so you can get all your rightful points. - Osomatic, 2007-09-10: 00:47:00
good one - FreeToys, 2007-09-10: 14:06:00
Goddamnesia, I think you've got it! Fantastic word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-10: 17:27:00
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Flakesearch
Created by: sparkles510
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Matt's continued to flakesearch even though the keys are in his hands.
Etymology:
Escalapse
Created by: ScrabbledEgg
Pronunciation: es-kuh-laps
Sentence: He couldn't remember where he set his cellphone, and it just escalapsed from there. Now he's just standing there, gazing into the refrigerator, hoping it has what he needs.
Etymology: escalate (to increase in magnitude, intensity, amount...) + lapse, as in "a lapse of memory"
Baffooled
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: bah + fooled
Sentence: I got so baffooled looking for my sunglasses that I ended up looking for my wallet instead.
Etymology: baffle + fooled
Comments:
FreeToys - 2007-09-10: 14:01:00
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