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DEFINITION: n. The inability to find, organize, or keep track of, simple physical objects. Often occurs when an individual has developed a search-engine dependency. v. To search for something that should be easy to find.

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Socknology

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: sock nowl edgy

Sentence: brian just could not get his head around socknology, it completely alluded him.

Etymology: from socks and technology

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Googleholic

Created by: fonka99

Pronunciation: Google-ho-lic

Sentence: Tristram's Googleholism renderered him unable to do anything complicated when his wifi went down.

Etymology: From Google and the suffix "holism" as in someone with an unhealthy dependancy on a substance.

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Searchenginitis

Created by: pianowiresmile

Pronunciation: Serch-en-gin-i-tis

Sentence: He sat at his computer so long, googling and wikipedia-hunting fer them thesis papers, he developed a wicked case of searchenginitis. It's that dang confounded college, ya know?

Etymology: Search engine/-itis (illness)

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Messysearch

Created by: Joachimgraf

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I messysearch my socks

Etymology:

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Deegle

Created by: hairydoginparis

Pronunciation: dee-gull

Sentence: I wish I could deegle my car keys when I lose them.

Etymology: desire+google

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Notinsite

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: not in syte

Sentence: His name was a trick of cruel fate...Seymour Sox. He always found one sock notinsite and in frustration he opened a website called: notinsite.com and used it as a platform to talk with other search-challenged individuals. After a while he made a ton of money on his notinsite site and could afford to buy new socks everyday and never have to worry about them getting divorced in his dryer ever again. Seymour Sox could now see more socks than he ever had in his life before!

Etymology: Not In Sight (invisible, unseen,inability to see) & Site (a computer connected to the Internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web)

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Googlelife

Created by: ChrisCarrk

Pronunciation: goo-gal-lie-feh

Sentence: I wish i had googlelife

Etymology: Google+life (i.e. Google maps)

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Prealtavistupied

Created by: Stump

Pronunciation: pre*altah*vistu*pied

Sentence: When he finally gets away from the computer Paul is so prealtavitupied he does the dumbest things. He once put butter on the wrong side of his toast.

Etymology: From the word preoccupied - meaning to be unaware and the name altavista, a once popular search engine.

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COMMENTS:

Butter on the wrong side of the toast? Man! He must of been totally confused... - wordmeister, 2007-01-05: 10:36:00

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