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DEFINITION: v. To be so immersed in a virtual world that you forget about your responsibilities to the physical world -- like your job, your family, or even feeding and washing yourself. n. A person who lives exclusively in their imagination.
Verboticisms
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Cyberspacey
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: sy-ber-spay-see
Sentence: If you need help, don't ask Stacey -- She's too cyberspacey.
Etymology: cyber + spacey
Virtualitis
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: vərchoōəlītis
Sentence: Jill has a bad case of virtualitis. Her on-line personality is fascinating. She skydives, surfs professionally, builds her own choppers and is in training for the next X Games. If only any of this was true. Her on-line photo album on has more Photo Shop work than a year*s worth of Playboy covers. When a couple of her friends tried to rally all of her friends from Facebook to help her, they found that many of them were made up too, other iterations of Jill herself.
Etymology: virtual (not physically existing as such but made by software to appear to do so) + itis (forming names of inflammatory diseases)
Cyberslump
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: sigh-bur-slump
Sentence: Peter was so drawn into his virtual world of gaming and blogging that he was largely oblivious to things happening in the outside world - he was in a cyberslump.
Etymology: cyber (internet ala William Gibson) + slump
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COMMENTS:
This made me LOL. - HubbMU, 2007-05-08: 10:11:00
Good one! It's what I'm in now!! - Stevenson0, 2007-05-08: 21:18:00
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Virtualocity
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: ver/tu/al/ah/si/ti
Sentence: She felt very comfortable in her virtualocity - the queen of all she surveyed
Etymology: virtual + virtuosity + city
Pseudomersifliction
Created by: everdred
Pronunciation: sudo (like unix), merci (like french), fliction (like something or the other)
Sentence:
Etymology: pseudo (fake) [im]'mersi (something suggesting immersion) [af]'fliction
Nerdificated
Created by: Jeaneai
Pronunciation: Ner-diff-eh-kate-ed
Sentence: I haven't seen Robert around the office since he started playing Runescape. D'you think he's been nerdificated?
Etymology: Nerd, Something ending with -ificated
Blogtied
Created by: hooterbug
Pronunciation: blôg'tahyd
Sentence: Sally's mom was getting a wee bit tired of tripping on the laptop power cord while vacuuming around her blogtied, couch potato of a daughter.
Etymology: Combination of BLOG (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. + HOGTIE (To restrict the activity or free movement of)
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-08: 13:29:00
BLOGTIED is excellent.
Fun to say. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-08: 15:50:00
Wish I'd thought of it first. - Mustang, 2008-07-08: 21:12:00
Funny & fantastic - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-09: 03:30:00
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Virmit
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: VERM-IT
Sentence: With the advent of the 286PC and the low-speed dialup, Roscoe had become a VIRMIT in his own home, letting the junk mail build up as he explored the infinite realm of the World-Wide Waste. Clearly, his life was CURSORED.
Etymology: VIRtual+herMIT
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COMMENTS:
No points for spelling - metrohumanx, 2008-07-08: 16:08:00
Awww- nobody likes my VERMIT. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-10: 21:01:00
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Eclusionist
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: E-kluh-SHUN-ist.
Sentence: Roxie became so immersed in a world of virtual reality that she became e-communicado; an Eclusionist (E-clusionist) living in a world of E-bay, E-food and, when speaking, doing so only in in E-speranto.
Etymology: E: prefix used to describe anything related to the internet; cyberspace & CLUDERE: to shut up, enclose, close up, confine," from L. secludere "shut off, confine," "to shut". Meaning "to remove from public view" Based on seclusion ; exclusionist. Cognates: Eclusion; Eclusionery, Eclusionate.
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COMMENTS:
sounds a bit e-litist - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-08: 13:31:00
E-xcellent word... - Nosila, 2008-07-08: 19:33:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was inspired by Cory Doctorow's short story "Anda's Game" which is published in Overclocked. It was also suggested by HubbMU.
Thank you Cory and HubbMU! ~ James
Weeklink rants again and uncovers a few lost words from last week's verbacious verbuttle. Read: The Cup of Verbotomy, Part Deux.
HubbMU - 2007-05-08: 10:08:00
Thanks for using my definition!
Thank you HubbMu. It's a great definition. A lot of people can relate to it -- especially if they are gamers or bloggers. ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-05-08: 12:52:00
Great to see all the new Verbotomists!
ECLUSIONIST is pretty good.
Today's definition was suggested by doctorow. Thank you doctorow. ~ James
cybersloth - 2010-01-02: 06:40:00
I would like to rebut your comments on the definition of cybersloth seen here (http://www.verbotomy.com/verbottle.php?jargonism_id=6790). 'cybersloth' is methodical and accurate, knows what move to make but it may take time. Not the friend of the impatient. From a theological view point I feel that you are free to think what you will about any subject; however you must be careful because all actions have consequences. Luckily I am not easily offended. I believe that I am not the only cybersloth, I may be the only one that is spelt exclusively with all lower case. By the way, I don’t use social networking sites and spend more time working on local resources both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’, if this does not make sense to you………. cybersloth. 02-01-2010