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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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Ecivilated
Created by: jrinka
Pronunciation: e-civil-ated
Sentence: He's been ecivilated for months now.
Etymology: electronic, civilization
Lifeloss
Created by: fredini
Pronunciation: Life-Loss
Sentence: He's playing so much Warcraft these days, he's lifeloss.
Etymology: life + loss
Virteener
Created by: brucee10
Pronunciation: vir - teen - er
Sentence: The virteener's natural habitat is uninhabital by humans. Even his mother is afraid to enter her own basement.
Etymology: Virtual + Teenage + Slacker
Bookfaced
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: bOOk-feisd
Sentence: As she started building her profile at facebook, friends began to pop up, groups showed themselves. Soon she was completely facebooked!
Etymology: facebooked/bookfaced
Umbilgatesicus
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: um/bil/gaytz/i/cus
Sentence: Sue had a surgeon replace her navel with an umbilgatesicus
Etymology: umbilicus + Bill Gates
Irrwebsponsible
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: ear-wib-spon-sib-el
Sentence: Two hours on that computer of hers and she becomes so irrwebsponsible that she sometimes forgets to breathe.
Etymology: Irresponsible (unreliable) + web (internet)
Facebookworm
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: fays book worm
Sentence: Felicia is a facebookworm. She has foresaken the boring everyday world to spend her time surfing for long lost people she knew way back when, people she used to work with and new friends from all over the world. Most of these people she used to know, she barely said 2 words to in the past. But now her witty conversations (OMG, 2 die 4)occupy her every moment. She now has over 10,000 friends...what a socialnetwork butterfly!
Etymology: Facebook (social networking site) & Bookworm (someone who immerses themselves in reading, to the exclusion of other activities)
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COMMENTS:
Great word/sentence/story! lol~ So true! :) - abrakadeborah, 2011-05-09: 09:45:00
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Myspacize
Created by: mishmish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I've been myspacized for weeks now
Etymology: my space, and space out, in a way
Cyberspuck
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: SAHY - ber - spuhk
Sentence: Cory has been severely cyberspucked that he thinks that Mozilla Firefox is the name of his pet, his home is located at http://www.myspace.com/coryhome and that AOL is his Provider and his Father.
Etymology: cyberspace + suck (to draw in or be drawn in) + Spock from Star Trek (being technically proficient but socially conscious)
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