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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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Virtrance
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
E mersed
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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COMMENTS:
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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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
Webfish
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
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)
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
Cybertranced
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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COMMENTS:
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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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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Uploadead
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...
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