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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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Documania
Created by: duefiori
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My father's documania was fatal when we tried to use new appliances.
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.
Etymology:
Cigourettes
Created by: OldEnglish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: On Christmas Eve, we would drift off to sleep listening to the traditional cries of "I'll show you a Tab A, you B Slot!" that always accompanied my father's seasonal bouts of Cigourette's.
Etymology: Complete Idiot's Guide + Tourette's
Docuddiction
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: doc-u-dik-shun
Sentence: It started with a simple desire to understand how things work, but it quickly developed into a complete obsession and then a severe docuddiction dependency.
Etymology: document and addiction
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COMMENTS:
"exsiting players" - Players who are fed up with the rules and decide to stage a sit-in before they leave for good :-) - petaj, 2007-02-09: 04:54:00
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Instruxation
Created by: Clay201
Pronunciation: In struc SAY shun
Sentence: When she smiled apologetically and nervously reached into the drawer to pull out the coffee maker manual for what must have been the twentyieth time, I knew she was suffering from instruxation.
Etymology: It's a combination of the words "instructions" and "fixation."
Docusess
Created by: grant0
Pronunciation: Doc-you-ssess.
Sentence: She is TOTALLY docusessed.
Etymology: Documentation + obsessed.
Instruchosis
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: in-struh-kO-sis
Sentence: His instruchosis left him unable to assemble even the simplest flat-pack furniture.
Etymology: From 'instructions' + 'psychosis'
Prodification
Created by: dastickney
Pronunciation: Prod-I-Fi-Ka-Shun
Sentence: As he was deep into prodification, he soon realized that he was able to once again use his manual can opener.
Etymology:
