scuther
(SKUH thur)
v. to disturb a person with too great a complexity of input for him to
handle; scutherdom, the resulting state, is often mistaken for
boredom, but the latter results from a person's being superior to
what is causing the state while the former results from his being
inferior to it. Counting pass cars on a freeway, for example, will
tend to cause boredom; doing advanced calculus problems with
tend to cause scutherdom.
handle; scutherdom, the resulting state, is often mistaken for
boredom, but the latter results from a person's being superior to
what is causing the state while the former results from his being
inferior to it. Counting pass cars on a freeway, for example, will
tend to cause boredom; doing advanced calculus problems with
tend to cause scutherdom.
Origin: [From "scuttle," "clutter," "muddle" and similar words.][rec'd October 22, 1989]