Dictionary

thinko en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /θɪŋkəʊ/
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From think + -o, on the model of typo (“typographical error”).

Meanings

1. (slang) A careless mistake made in thinking.
   • 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. 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:
   • 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.
   • 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. 2008, Kurt Wall, Tcl and Tk Programming for the Absolute Beginner, page 134:
   • 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. 2009, Geoff Nunberg, Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times, page 59:
   • I must have done quite a thinko, but I don't remember leaving my keys in the refrigerator.

Forms

Coordinates

scanno · clicko · writo · printo · hearo · spello · speako · typo · copy-pasto

Hypernyms

blunder · fault · lapse · boo-boo · slip · aberration · slipup · fuckup · faux pas · misstep · slip-up · error · inaccuracy · disadventure · wrength · blunder · clanger · thinko · lapsus · slip-up · fault · fluff · misadventure · howler · error · mistake · oopsy · blooper · slip · boner · erroneity · mistake · solecism · mess-up · fluff · lapse · boo-boo · stumble · faux pas · gaffe · cock-up · goof · bloomer · blip · floater · flub · break · blooper · gaffe · screwup · stumble · defect

Synonyms

brain fart

thinko en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /θɪŋkəʊ/
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From think + -o, on the model of typo (“typographical error”).

Meanings

1. (intransitive, slang, transitive) To make a mistake when thinking.

Forms