Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ee-murst

Sentence: Between her smart phone, tablet and laptop, Suzy is completely emmersed. Last month her friends had to tweat her to remind her to go to her wedding.

Etymology: e: electronic - immersed: plunged or sunk in or as if in a liquid

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Created by: peabodymat

Pronunciation: drive irrational

Sentence: He was in his driverational mode, being completely controlling and completely irrational.

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: um/bil/gaytz/i/cus

Sentence: Sue had a surgeon replace her navel with an umbilgatesicus

Etymology: umbilicus + Bill Gates

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Created by: duchessella

Pronunciation: cy-BY-o-size

Sentence: She cybiosises with abandon; we haven't seen her for 3 months, except when online.

Etymology: Cyber + symbiosis cyber - that's pretty obvious symbiosis - the state of living dependently with something; the computer in this case

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Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: ab-STIM-yuh-leyt

Sentence: John's preoccupation with Second Life bordered on hopeless abstimulation. (A possible synonym might be "circumvirtuate" or "circumvirtualize.")

Etymology: Portmanteau: abstain + simulation

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Created by: cranovich

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Created by: AnnieChandon

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Created by: Andradir

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Sentence: I was so struck by my webism that I forgot that particular date.

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: SY-ber-myrd

Sentence: For the last couple years Linda has been absolutely cybermired, deeply immersed in communication on the internet thru Twitter, Facebook, and public forums, as well as being heavily involved in texting on her cellphone.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'cyber' (a combining form meaning “computer,” “computer network,” or “virtual reality,”) and 'Mired' (mire v.tr. To hinder, entrap, or entangle as if in mire)

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Created by: ratika

Pronunciation: n-at-whaist-ed

Sentence: Are you netwasted, do you feel that your computer is your only friend, then you might be suffering from webism? Call this number and ask for help.

Etymology: Net (short for internet)+ wasted

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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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Great word/sentence/story! lol~ So true! :) - abrakadeborah, 2011-05-09: 09:45:00

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Created by: playdohheart

Pronunciation: in-ter-web-blah

Sentence: Wikipedia is a huge time suck. You start off looking up useful information and four hours of interweblah later and you've ended up extensively editing an article about kitten foot warmers.

Etymology: interweb + blah

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Created by: thefreewheeler

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Sentence: We invited Tonner to the Live at Five concert but he said he can't leave his office. I think he's become sunshy.

Etymology: from 'gun shy'. Sun is outdoors and the center of the real solar system.

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Thanks for the perfect word to describe my son. - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-08: 12:40:00

Nice freewhelin' word! - Stevenson0, 2007-05-08: 21:06:00

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Created by: duhlawn

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Created by: verysimplegame

Pronunciation: Ahv-ah-tar-ded

Sentence: His aparment was a wreck - food strewn about the floor in a semi-intelligent arc tracing from the door to the computer. And the place REEKED. Johan wondered if Mike could be... avatarded.

Etymology: Avatar + retarded

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Created by: katytee

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Etymology: (virtual recluse)

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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

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Created by: jrinka

Pronunciation: e-civil-ated

Sentence: He's been ecivilated for months now.

Etymology: electronic, civilization

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: eee murst

Sentence: she became so Emmersed in her second life that she would have festered away altogether had her broadband coverage been anything as good as she was told it would be.

Etymology: immersed, e as in electronic

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Created by: marinus

Pronunciation: in-ter-wed

Sentence: There's no reason to be interwed to our forums all day. Please, go out and get some fresh air.

Etymology: internet + wed(ding)

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Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: net - rek -d

Sentence: I had a lot of stuff to do this weekend, but then I started reading wikipedia and got totally netwrecked.

Etymology: network + wrecked

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: hip-net-ized

Sentence: Bob got hypnetized by Youtube for 8 hours straight. Later, his wife had to use WD40 to peel his butt from the vinyl chair.

Etymology: hypnotized, net

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Bob got hypnetized by Youtube for 8 hours straight. Later, his wife had to use WD40 to peel his butt from the vinyl chair. - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-08: 04:33:00

Obviously, I'm suffering from sleep depverbation. - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-08: 04:36:00

very hyp - galwaywegian, 2007-05-08: 07:43:00

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Created by: everdred

Pronunciation: sudo (like unix), merci (like french), fliction (like something or the other)

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Etymology: pseudo (fake) [im]'mersi (something suggesting immersion) [af]'fliction

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Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: ego ne sia

Sentence: Her chatroom buddies realized egonesia had gripped their friend.

Etymology: ego - self nesia (shortening of amnesia)

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If it could be two words then ego amnesia would be better. - texmom, 2007-05-09: 21:55:00

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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

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Created by: mana1066

Pronunciation: in growst

Sentence: The only thing that remover her from her igrossed state was the tingling pain on her ass bone from sitting too long. and then, she oud just stand up

Etymology: internet+ engrossed

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i know it's a real word already! but it works, right? - mana1066, 2007-05-08: 22:45:00

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Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: up-low-dead

Sentence: She uploadead herself into hyperheaven.

Etymology: upload - for uploading your mind dead - because you might seem dead to others while walking happily in the invisible cloudy of hyperheaven...

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Created by: Ernie

Pronunciation: Net-Wor-Er-Ized

Sentence: I am online all day every day. I have been fully networerized.

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Created by: stvspl

Pronunciation: EE-low-n

Sentence: Paula thought she had so many friends, but in actuality, she was elone.

Etymology: e- (prefix for computerish things) + alone (what digitally immersed people are)

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Well done! - geoamnesia, 2007-05-08: 18:51:00

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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Slobb-a-tron-i-kay-ted

Sentence: Jerry had become so slobatronicated over the past few months spending so much time on his computer, playing games and contacting his online buddies, that he lost his job, all his real-life friends and his appearance resembled that of a tramp. The worst thing was, he was so engrossed in his cosy virtual world he had hardly noticed.

Etymology: Slob(behving in a slovenly manner) + electronic(relating to or carried out by means of a computer or other electronic device) = Slobatronicated

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Created by: pinwheel

Pronunciation: gone/line

Sentence: James realized that he was going to have to wash his own socks because Judy was gonline again.

Etymology: gone (as in not here) + on-line

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Very good! Says it without a definition. - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-08: 04:38:00

like it - galwaywegian, 2007-05-08: 05:17:00

Why couldn't he wash them anyway. No wonder Judy was always online if she was the designated sock-washer. The grass is always #008000er on the cyber side. - petaj, 2007-05-08: 05:46:00

Oh and great word by the way - petaj, 2007-05-08: 05:46:00

Ha, great word. Love the comment by Petaj. Made me laugh. - Jeaneai, 2007-05-08: 08:54:00

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Created by: mishmish

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I've been myspacized for weeks now

Etymology: my space, and space out, in a way

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Created by: heb319

Pronunciation: tek no her mit

Sentence: Marie had been a technohermit since her last break up. For weeks she sat on her couch playing games on facebook, yet refused to answer her phone, leave her house, or take a shower.

Etymology: techno = technology hermit

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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: stink-oh-sur-fer

Sentence: Bethanie Ohreeker lived on her computer and was known as being a reclusive stinkohsurfer girl.

Etymology: Stink - To Smell Badly, Body Odor Surfer - One who surfs the web.

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Created by: giveaphuk

Pronunciation: ee ther tis ed

Sentence: she was so ethertised that she forgot to pick up her children from school.

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Created by: HubbMU

Pronunciation: lEEt-spork

Sentence: John was on IRC and World of Warcraft so much every day he became quite proficient in leetspork.

Etymology: Leet- which is a common "slang" used on the internet and Spork- the eating utensil you get at Taco Bell (and represents the height of Western decadence/slothfulness)

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You leet-head! God I hate that stuff. Good word though. - jedijawa, 2007-05-08: 10:35:00

I know you - HubbMU, 2007-05-08: 11:58:00

hmmm. I tried to use some leet in that last comment. Not sure what happened....oh well! - HubbMU, 2007-05-08: 11:59:00

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Created by: moscop

Pronunciation: sigh-bur-sloth

Sentence: Completely unaware of the demolition of his house, in a true cybersloth manner, Jim continued surfing the internet for the best deal on a comfy computer chair.

Etymology: cyber (internet ala William Gibson) + sloth (as in the seven deadly sins)

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Created by: Guthlaf1

Pronunciation: VER-tyoo-KOZ-my-TISS

Sentence: I'm afraid he's come down with a bad case of virtucosmitis, Mrs Jenkins. We recommend either confiscating his electronic equipment, or locking him away in a padded room, for life.

Etymology: From "virtual" + "cosmos" (universe) + "-itis"

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Created by: Tommy

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Etymology: the act-> gretful, totally immersed -> gretfully, Addicted, repeatedly going past the point of being fired-> REgretful

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Created by: grahaff

Pronunciation: i maj ad dikt

Sentence: I am sick and tired off looking in through the window and seeing you imagaddicting while I enjoy the sun outside.

Etymology: imagination (the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses) + addict (a person who is obsessed with something in particular)

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Created by: br0wn

Pronunciation: hwĭp'əld

Sentence: I can't go to the store because the (virtual world) has wippled me. This new fiber optic connection has turned me into a wipple.

Etymology: Web, cripple

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: sims + ih + fie

Sentence: My Sim is about to finally have enough friends to get a better job, and you want me to worry about going to WORK? I'm a little too Simsified for that, my friend.

Etymology: Ever played The Sims?

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Created by: lauramy

Pronunciation: sy-ber-spay-see

Sentence: If you need help, don't ask Stacey -- She's too cyberspacey.

Etymology: cyber + spacey

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: PUR-mah-jakd

Sentence: Man, ever since Troy got his high-speed cable, he's been permajacked into World of Warcraft. He THINKS he's an elf paladin, but he smells like an ogre...

Etymology: permanent, jacked

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Created by: vetmommy2

Pronunciation: Uh-Bliv-ee-on-lyne

Sentence: He was so oblivionline that he often forgot about his only real friends, his goldfish, spending many late night hours trying to create punny definitions and chatting with other fellow oblivionlinuses.

Etymology: Oblivious: to be unaware of one's surroundings or situation + On-line, a world where reality is marginalized.

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OBLIVIONLINE- I love it, vetmommy2 ! I squandered my votes already... sorry :) - metrohumanx, 2008-07-10: 21:00:00

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Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: ar-el-amnesiac

Sentence: She is just across the room, but she still insists on IMing me and even then only responds to her SecondLife name - she is definitely turning into an arelamnesiac.

Etymology: RL = Real Life + amnesiac = one whose memory has been disturbed

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She's definitely a very 'e-nal' person! Graet original word!! - Stevenson0, 2007-05-08: 21:11:00

**great** - Stevenson0, 2007-05-08: 21:12:00

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Created by: benjamin

Pronunciation: eeg-nore

Sentence: When I tried to ask my girlfriend out to dinner she egnored me, but at least she sent me a message on face book telling me to log on ICQ that night so we could chat.

Etymology: e (prefix for things digital or electronic) + ignore

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Good word! - Stevenson0, 2007-05-08: 21:16:00

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: pre-tend-em-ick

Sentence: Jane's neglect of personal hygeine, nutrition and fresh air in favour of instant messaging her online buddies was a clear sign that she'd succumbed to the virtual reality pretendemic.

Etymology: pretend (make believe) & endemic (a disease characteristic of certain places or people)

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Good word! - Nosila, 2011-04-13: 18:56:00

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ɹiˌæləɡˈnɔːɹ/ /rE-'a-l&g-'nor/

Sentence: Those who realignore their physical lives need to realize that their corporeal bodies are a lot like virtual pets and require frequent attention; in many cases the problem becomes substance neglect.

Etymology: From reality + ignore

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The most overlooked word of the day! Good one!! - Stevenson0, 2007-05-08: 21:21:00

Thanks. I like "substance neglect" better, but it's not a verb, and it's two words. - ErWenn, 2007-05-09: 00:26:00

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Created by: Bertie

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Sentence: I broke into the flat only to find that the poor soul was already depitute.

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /tek-NEG-li-juhnt/

Sentence: Ralph's character in World of Warcraft was awesome — with some of the best armor and weapons available. But Ralph was technegligent IRL. He hadn't shaved or bathed in 4 or 5 days, and he'd barely slept in the last week. He'd called in sick at work twice, but after that he hadn't even bothered, and they'd finally stopped calling to leave him messages. He seemed to recall a girl he'd been dating, but she'd stopped calling, too... Anyway, his character rocked! That's what was important, wasn't it?

Etymology: Technology - electronic or digital products and systems (from Greek, tekhnologia "science of the mechanical and industrial arts") + negligent - failing in what duty requires; derelict or delinquent (from Latin, neglegere "to make light of, disregard")

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: del loo shun al

Sentence: Fern was obsessed with being online 24/7. She never went outside nor did traditional social meets. All her relationships and schooling were online, not based in reality. In fact she had become very dellusional of late and only a major power cut would bring her back to reality!

Etymology: Dell (Computer company founded by Michael Dell in 1984) & Delusional (suffering from or characterized by delusions)

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Created by: pifty

Pronunciation: vrtjualajfd

Sentence: being virtuallifed makes her forget about the real world.

Etymology: virtual + life

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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

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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)

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Created by: mjmlabs

Pronunciation: sigh-ber-MERS

Sentence: I wanted to get a bunch of chores done last weekend, but I wound up cybermersing for 53 hours instead; what day is this?

Etymology: cyber- + immerse (simple, really)

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Nice use of the 'merse'! - Stevenson0, 2007-05-08: 21:07:00

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Created by: whatley

Pronunciation: Di-jin-trance

Sentence: JP sat digintranced by the game, his eyes glazed over and dully staring at a monitor surrounded by cigarette butts, Mountain Dew cans, and filth.

Etymology: From Eng. Entranced by the Digital. 1993. Growing availability of digital cable and high grade cannabis in the early 1990s entranced America with hundreds of new channels of mindless programming.

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: my - kro - selfd

Sentence: Jed was a difficult person to carry on a conversation with. He was so microselfed that he only imagined himself. He felt only truly alive as an avatar and ceased to belive in real friends; only imaginary ones sufficed now. In those few minutes that he did "look up" from his laptop, all we saw was a blank stare and no recognition that he knew who we were either.

Etymology: micro (microcomputer, Microsoft, self

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: sim-u-la-tion-ship

Sentence: Jenna withdrew from her family and friends in favor of the simulationships she made in Second Life. There she dated a handsome avatar she met at a virtual rock concert and almost had enough saved up to buy her own island.

Etymology: simulation: the representation of the behavior or characteristics of a system through the use of another system, especially designed for the purpose + relationship: an emotional or other connection between people **Second Life is a free 3D virtual world where people can socialize, connect, create pseudo lives and even work.

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Created by: fredini

Pronunciation: Life-Loss

Sentence: He's playing so much Warcraft these days, he's lifeloss.

Etymology: life + loss

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: app ell op lex ee

Sentence: She suffered from appleoplexy . I I I

Etymology: apoplext apple

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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)

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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

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: slut-turn

Sentence: Sally was so long-engrossed in her Second Life supermodel avatar she was slousy with mites, slovenly and insolvent. No one would dare to date the sluttern in her real life.

Etymology: slattern + slut (both of which mean a slovenly, untidy woman) + SL (Second Life)

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Created by: apollo

Pronunciation: nehg-LIDG-it-ahl

Sentence: Karen had been negligital all week, and her fish died because of it.

Etymology: Negligent + Digital

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: ee bliv ee us

Sentence: Joanie become so addicted to her computer, that she became eblivious to everyone and everything else around her. Between her e-mails, surfing the Net, playing games, shopping online, ordering food electronically, competing on her daily Verbotomy site, gambling on-line, doing surveys and writing her own blog about the life she used to lead as a human, she had no time for anything else. Not only did she let her personal hygiene and appearance lapse, she was developing rectangular eyeballs and callouses on her fingertips from clicking and dragging all day and night. What would become of her when they shut off her e-lectricity and she had to face the real world once again? Oh, Joanie, how your eblivion has cost you...

Etymology: e - (shortcut prefix for electronic) & oblivious - (unaware of or paying no attention to somebody or something; forgetting about somebody or something)

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Best of the day! - Mustang, 2008-07-08: 21:11:00

Another great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-09: 03:32:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: lap top liv ee an

Sentence: Megan Hertz lives her life in laptoplivion, totally removed from the realities of daily life. She lives in the fantasy realm of the Internet and loses herself there for hours, even days at a time. She neglects herself and subsides on a daily diet of bytes of Apple, cookies, nybbles, Spam, Mac & GEOS, washed down with Java and Port. Her poor diet is ruining her memory and if she does not watch it, she will end up with a deadly virus.

Etymology: Laptop (a portable computer small enough to use in your lap) & Oblivion (the state of being disregarded or forgotten; total forgetfulness)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sībərekloōs

Sentence: Graduating from high school has not been a good thing for Julie. Sure, she will be heading off to college soon but for now she has become a cyberecluse. Her Facebook account is the most active thing in her life.

Etymology: cyber (of, relating to, or characteristic of the culture of computers, information technology) + recluse (a person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people)

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Created by: brandsimo

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: o-ver-sim-u-la-ted

Sentence: Ben could become oversimulated while going on virtual dates online. He would take his laptop into his room and shut the door for hours on end. Mother was happy because she didn't have to worry about him running off with some hussy and Ben was happy because real girls were scarey.

Etymology: stimulated: to excite functional activity (sexual or mental) + overstimulated: a trigger or event that causes hyperactivity or over-excitement in children or adults + simulated: virtual reality; a model meant to resemble a real situation

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good one Mrs. K. - mweinmann, 2009-11-25: 08:30:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: lap/trap/ed

Sentence: Jenny was no different from many of her friends, laptrapped and totally emersed and esnared in her virtual world, fingers poised at her keyboard ready to discuss and solve all her friends' problems.

Etymology: LAPTRAPPED - verb - from LAPTOP (a portable, battery-powered computer small enough to rest on the user's lap) + TRAPPED (to ensnare, or capture and prevent from escaping, or getting free)

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LAPTRAPPED is good.Punchy, bold and dynamic. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-08: 15:46:00

For exercise she could always lap-dance! - Nosila, 2008-07-08: 19:35:00

So many excellent words today. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-09: 03:31:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: E/mersed

Sentence: She is totally E-mersed within her own little world from her home to any 'Hot Spot' cafe.

Etymology: E (electronic) + immersed

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Very good ... though I'm not sure if an underscore counts in the usual word rules. I still like it though! - jedijawa, 2007-05-08: 23:48:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: lap/trap/ed

Sentence: Jenny was no different from many of her friends, laptrapped and totally emersed and esnared in her virtual world, fingers poised at her keyboard ready to discuss and solve all her friends' problems.

Etymology: LAPTRAPPED - verb - from LAPTOP (a portable, battery-powered computer small enough to rest on the user's lap) + TRAPPED (to ensnare, or capture and prevent from escaping, or getting free)

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Lapracadabra - Nosila, 2009-11-24: 23:18:00

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: fig MENT i tee

Sentence: Ava Tar ran an online business, ordered most things she needed on the Internet for home delivery, and "socialized" mostly with her online "friends," so she rarely left the house because she didn't need to. She existed mainly as a web-based figmentity. Unfortunately, she realized too late that her online "friends" couldn't help her with moving to her new apartment.

Etymology: figment + entity (being, existence, something or someone having a real existence)

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Love her name. too! - Nosila, 2009-11-24: 23:19:00

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Created by: guesser

Pronunciation: virtual - feeder

Sentence: Who's more apt to become a virtualfeeder? Men? or Women?

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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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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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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: vee-ahr-GEHT

Sentence: Alex veeargot his school assignment because the file was tucked behind his Sims screen.

Etymology: vee + ar [(v)irtual (r)eality] + forget

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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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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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Created by: greytellie

Pronunciation: ver-transs

Sentence: I found myself completely virtranced by the charm of on-line communities.

Etymology: Vir...for virtual and trance...a state of complete mental absorption or deep musing

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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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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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Created by: Jeannie

Pronunciation: deny/a/line

Sentence: Her personal hygene had plummeted, she had become a slovern, her denialine was absolute!

Etymology:

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: cap/tee/vay/ted

Sentence: Sally was so capteevated with her online world that her family finally decided to pull the plug.

Etymology: captivated + e (as in email)

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Terrific. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-09: 03:29:00

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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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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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Created by: eljono

Pronunciation:

Sentence: That guy is so webfish, he's been online all day and hasn't fed hid kid yet.

Etymology: web + selfish

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: SYE - behr - transed

Sentence: Hector had become thoroughly cybertranced and during most of his waking hours was totally absorbed in online gaming, surfing the net, updating his blog and 'googling' one thing after another.

Etymology: Blend of the prefix 'cyber' and tranced, a form of trance (a state of complete mental absorption or deep musing)

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Very clever - TJayzz, 2008-07-08: 08:27:00

very melodic word - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-08: 10:58:00

Good one...CYBERTRANCED is descriptive with just the right amount of new-age overtones... - metrohumanx, 2008-07-08: 15:50:00

Excellent. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-09: 03:10:00

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Created by: daisy

Pronunciation: sy-ber-loo-zer

Sentence: "No, it's not cool that you are a level 4 wizard on everquest - you're such a cyberloser."

Etymology:

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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)

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: si-blob

Sentence: After weeks of playing Warcraft for hours on end, Dave officially became a cyblob and was able to totally ignore Jill's rants about mowing the grass.

Etymology: cyborg, cyber, and blob (a useless lump of flesh)

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Created by: Kurisu

Pronunciation: 'di-ji&-rät'

Sentence: I had all kinds or real world responsibilities, but chose instead to digirot.

Etymology: Digital: of, relating to, or being data in the form of especially binary digits + Rot: to cause to decompose or deteriorate with or as if with rot

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Created by: gregoryba

Pronunciation: dis-ee-chanted

Sentence: i've become disechanted with the real world, time to immerse myself in irc.

Etymology: i dunno, i just made it up

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