thinko - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From think + -o, on the model of typo (“typographical error”).
thinko (plural thinkos)
- (slang) A careless mistake made in thinking.
- Synonym: brain fart
- Hypernyms: blip, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, error, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, slip-up, stumble; defect, fault; see also Thesaurus:error
- Coordinate terms: clicko, copy-pasto, hearo, printo, scanno, speako, spello, typo, writo
I must have done quite a thinko, but I don't remember leaving my keys in the refrigerator.
- 1998, K. G. Binmore, Game Theory and the Social Contract, Volume 2: Just Playing, page 34,
- We need to face the fact that thinkos are likely to be much more important, even though such a source of noise is much harder to model.
2006, Kristen B. Donohue, “Misused Words and Other Witing Gaffes: A Manager's Primer”, in Written Communications that Inform and Influence, Harvard Business School, page 164:
Spell-checkers can help with simple types such as misspeIIings and repeated words, but they are little defense against the equally common "thinkos," such as the inconvenience/incontinence example above. Your only defense against thinkos is a careful read.
2008, Kurt Wall, Tcl and Tk Programming for the Absolute Beginner[1], page 134:
I don't know about you, but I don't want to grovel through a bunch of code blocks to track down a typo or thinko.
2009, Geoff Nunberg, Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times[2], page 59:
There are two kinds of linguistic missteps, the typos and the thinkos. Typos are the processing glitches that intercede between a thought and its expression. They can make you look foolish, but they aren't really the signs of an intellectual or ethical deficiency, the way thinkos are.
thinko (third-person singular simple present thinkos, present participle thinkoing, simple past and past participle thinkoed or thinko'd)
- (slang, transitive, intransitive) To make a mistake when thinking.