Verboticisms

Created by: JayBaldo

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Etymology: A terrible combo of lost and thought.

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Created by: ldikarev

Pronunciation: THink slip

Sentence: As I was about to win the noble prize for general awesomeness of ideas I had abrupt thinkslip and lost all memory of my idea.

Etymology: think slip

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: think - ho - el

Sentence: In trying to remember what she meant to tell her husband, Marnie encountered a thinkhole. She could not retrieve the thoughts that had been preoccupying her for the last day and a half. She felt like her mind was wandering the desert.

Etymology: think, sink, sinkhole

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COMMENTS:

I must thay, that's a thuper word! - whipspeak, 2009-12-04: 08:07:00

Love it! You got my vote! - artr, 2009-12-06: 06:53:00

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Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: Forg-thot

Sentence: Because of her constant blather about crustaceans and underpants, I complete forgthought of my metaphysical essay topic Nature of Time ... hey I remember now!

Etymology: Forgot (failed to remember) + forgo (do without, ie. the thought) + thought (idea produced by thinking)

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COMMENTS:

like it!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-21: 09:43:00

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: pond + err + or

Sentence: I had this great idea for a new flavor of frozen yogurt but then my brain had a ponderror and I don't know what it was any more.

Etymology: ponder + error

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: ir ret treev ab ilitee

Sentence: It happened again. Brianna had another irritrievability session. Her train of thought had become derailed again. It was like being an amnesiac in a soap opera. She could not remember anything from a second ago, nevermind longer. It all started when she began dating her co-star, Drew A. Blanc. He seemed to have no memory at all. Probably a good thing in Hollywood, but a bad thing for her...had they had their first kiss, gotten married, had a child? Who knew??? All that Brianna did know was that she would have to get back on the Ginko-Biloba again soon, or her career might be over! Whoulda thought????

Etymology: Irretrievable (impossible to recover or recoup or overcome) & Irritate (annoy;disturb, especially by minor irritations) & Ability (possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done).

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Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: thred-rift

Sentence: I had just the perfect final thought for my paper, but then I lost hold of it and the next minute it was threadrift.

Etymology: Thread (as in thread of an idea or thought) + drift (to move away)

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Created by: daisy

Pronunciation: blank-i-fide

Sentence: I was blankified during the big test - was it George Washington or Dick Cheney who sailed across the Delaware?

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Created by: Carria

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Etymology: From latin pēnsāre "think " and amnesia

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: mush-brayn

Sentence: People over 35 begin to receive mushbrains more frequently as they age and this usually marks the onset of rotting from the inside- otherwise known as the aging process.

Etymology: mush (a thick, soft mass, can mold into a loaf for slicing and frying) brain (the grey & white matter between your ears)

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