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DEFINITION: An often debilitating condition characterized by compulsive, repetitive and obsessive reading of product documentation and warranties.
Verboticisms
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Circumdocutation
Created by: hanumanu
Pronunciation: sir-kum-dock-you-TAY-shun
Sentence: Must you obsess in your circumdocutation? Just sharpen the danged thing already!
Etymology: Like circulocution - talking in circles - this is reading instructions in an obsessively concentric way.
Docufetish
Created by: Count
Pronunciation: doc-u-fetish
Sentence: "I hear all she does is read manuals. Man, she must have a serious docufetish."
Etymology:
Cheechburnout
Created by: queeny
Pronunciation: Cheech-burn-out
Sentence: Chong burn out is way badder. You end up munching on the pencils like way before you sharpen them. Whoa,coulda been a prob.
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Laripeat
Created by: DeltaRho2K
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I was mocked for my laripeat behavior, but when the hair dryer fell into the tub, I was saved because the water was not turned on and the tub was empty.
Etymology: LAther - RInse - rePEAT No matter how many times I've read it, I still glance at those stupid instructions every time I shower... You do too... admit it!
Overinformativeness
Created by: livejuicy
Pronunciation: oh-ver-in-for-mah-tive-ness
Sentence: Upon opening his new cell phone's user manual, he suffered a bout of overinformativeness.
Etymology: Over + information + ness
Lawyertudity
Created by: mythman
Pronunciation: LOY-yer-TOO-dih-tee
Sentence: Bobby feared the industry--due to their growing lawyertudity--would fine him for sleeping on that side of the mattress.
Etymology: attitudes of lawyers ... if you're not doing what all the words say, we'll sue ya!
Finitusprintitus
Created by: xpez2000
Pronunciation: fi-nigh-tus-prin-ti-tus
Sentence: Once I took a look at the directions for my IKEA crap, I had to go to bed because I could feel the finitusprintitus coming over me. Causing me to feel woozy and unmotivated to do anything...
Etymology: Fine - Print -itus
Docupulsive
Created by: SlappyDaClown
Pronunciation: Doc-u-pul-sive
Sentence: I think hes somewhat docupulsive about those instructions.
Etymology: Coined by Freud in his massive missive on Compulsions.
