Today’s Wordbird: LOTOTOMIZED

LOTOTOMIZED (Adj.) la-‘tot-ah-myzd Describing the feelings of confusion, exhaustion and loss of identity suffered by adults distracted by the clamorous, yammering company of little kids who need them. Usage: Before the twins were born, Dara and Jake ran a business, worked out daily, led a busy social life, and gardened and decorated to their hearts’ content. But soon after the girls arrived, they quit the gym, let their house fall into shambles, rarely saw their friends, and felt scatty and unfocussed nearly all of the time- they were completely lototomized.

Tricolored Herons, by Elizabeth Zechel

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Liesl Schillinger is a New York-based writer and translator, whose criticism, essay, features and other work have appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Gourmet Live, The New Yorker, New Yor ...read more

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