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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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Figmentity
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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COMMENTS:
Love her name. too! - Nosila, 2009-11-24: 23:19:00
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Lifeloss
Created by: fredini
Pronunciation: Life-Loss
Sentence: He's playing so much Warcraft these days, he's lifeloss.
Etymology: life + loss
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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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
Wippled
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
Leetspork
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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COMMENTS:
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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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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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
Gretful
Created by: Tommy
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: the act-> gretful, totally immersed -> gretfully, Addicted, repeatedly going past the point of being fired-> REgretful
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