brain fart

English

Alternative forms

• brainfart

Noun

brain fart (plural brain farts)

1. (idiomatic, informal) A lapse in the thought process; an inability to think or remember something clearly.
2. (idiomatic, informal) Something ill-considered and said or done impulsively.
   • 2011, Grace Dent, The Guardian, 8 Jul 2011:

     This is love in the social media age. Candlelight dinner, fine wine, degustation, a lover's face scrunched over a phone screen live-tweeting brainfarts about the relationship to largely uninterested skim-readers.

Usage notes

• Mildly crude and inappropriate for formal settings.

Translations

A lapse in the thought process; an inability to think or remember something clearly

Finnish: aivopieru (fi) French: trou de mémoire (fr) m.

Swedish: hjärnsläpp (sv) n.

Something ill-considered said or done impulsively

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Spanish: Una Laguna

See also

• draw a blank
• thinko