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DEFINITION: v. To push a push-button that has just been pushed by someone else because you "need" to push it yourself; common at elevators, traffic lights, and family meetings. n. A person who "needs" to push their own buttons.
Verboticisms
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Redbuttonsyndrome
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: red button syndrome
Sentence: simply your words ;) every human has the redbuttonsyndrome - best documented in ren & stimpy "space madness" ... where stimpy has to guard a red button but doesn't know why and what the button does... so he starts thinking about it... until he can't resist anymore... . monkey see, monkey do. simple - everybody wants to push the button.
Etymology: red + button + syndrome = redbuttonsyndrome
Buttonomy
Created by: lynne61
Pronunciation: butt-aw-no-me
Sentence: His buttonomy forced him into pushing the third floor button although it was still warm from the woman's touch.
Etymology: button and autonomy
Obspress
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /əbˈspɹɛs/
Sentence: The tendency to obspress is one of those annoying habits that fills me with reflustration.
Etymology: from obsess + press
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COMMENTS:
I just realized that I should have just submitted "repush" - ErWenn, 2007-04-11: 10:50:00
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Repusher
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: ree-push-r
Sentence: "Just press this button in front of Doug and you'll see him follow suit. He can't help himself. He's a repusher."
Etymology: "re" as in "do again"+ push
Prescalate
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: press-cah-layt
Sentence: he arrived at the traffic lights and couldn't help but prescalate... the other gentleman responded with his own prescalation...the situation then prescalated to such a point that neither of them were prepared to leave the button even when the lights changed...
Etymology: press, escalate
Pushkinitis
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: push/kin/i/tis
Sentence: The group originally met to read Pushkin poetry but soon pushkinitis ensued and the confused members began pushing around their families (kin)
Etymology: pushkin ( Russian poet) + itis
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COMMENTS:
I hate it at poetry readings when pushy people show up. - Stevenson0, 2007-04-10: 09:38:00
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Autodepressant
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: aw toe dehp ress ant
Sentence: the autodepressant could feel her self coming down again
Etymology: auto depressant
Replidigify
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: rep lid idge iff eye
Sentence: seamus alway replifidigified, to be sure to be sure.
Etymology: replicate, digit
Pressdetout
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: press dee toot
Sentence: Irma was a pressdetout when it came to elevators. She had to press the buttons for each and every floor. It slowed down the elevator ride for many and caused people to get angry, but she could not help herself. She'd even press the button someone else had already lit up. Some people get the elevator, some just get the shaft...
Etymology: Press (to exert pressure or push on something) & De Tout (Fr: of everything, all) and Wordplay on Prostitute (someone who gets paid to push another's buttons, wink, wink, nod, nod)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic.
Thank you Osomatic! ~ James
Mustang - 2008-06-19: 08:28:00
Being compushive isnt easy. It takes lots of energy and ingenuity.
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic. Thank you Osomatic. ~ James