Verboticisms

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: peesed/off

Sentence: My computer never fails to get me pcdoff.

Etymology: pc + pissed off

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COMMENTS:

Very clever ... roared with laughter! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-30: 19:34:00

Hilarious, left-field, clever! - bananabender, 2008-01-30: 23:30:00

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /ay-need-mahy-speys/

Sentence: Although everything worked great when she'd first connected it, and Sheila's laptop was now only a year old, lately it had been experiencing performance problems, and even more frustrating, it would often suffer from memory errors and forget her preferences. She was now disenchanted with the relationship — a classic case of Ineedmyspace.

Etymology: Compound word: "I need my space" - common statement used in troubled relationships; and a pun on 'MySpace' - the social networking website.

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COMMENTS:

also uses the "I" as in Ipod, IMac, Iphone... - zebrahdh, 2008-01-30: 03:35:00

Do I detect a bit of rebellion against computer dependency? I like it! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-30: 06:58:00

Subtle, fun sentence. Love the word! - bananabender, 2008-01-30: 08:11:00

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: net serf

Sentence: Nettie became so addicted to surfing the net, she became a netserf.

Etymology: Net - short for internet, aka the web that takes us all in. Serf - enslaved laborer.

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COMMENTS:

Good one. - Mustang, 2008-11-21: 04:41:00

nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-21: 10:17:00

Good word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-11-23: 15:47:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: sigh - ko - lec - tron - ik

Sentence: Every day Veronica went totally psycholectronic while dealing with her computer. She was constantly frustrated and angry when it locked up or she could not figure out how to do something but in the end, she kept turning it on every day because it had really become her best friend.

Etymology: Psychotic (a person afflicted with psychosis: amental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted) + Electronic (Usually refers to something that is available via the computer).

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: dis kon tent

Sentence: Brandy's relationship with her computer was like her history with men. She experienced the same diskontent when they got a virus, lost their memory, their drive,became floppy and could no longer server. That was when she gave them the boot, because their relationship was terminal.

Etymology: Disk ((computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored) & Discontent (a longing for something better than the present situation)

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Created by: emdeejay

Pronunciation: tech amblivalent

Sentence: June was reminded of her techambivalence when her laptop spontaneously shut down during a 'heated' chat with her 'colleague'

Etymology: from 'technology' and 'ambivalence'

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: ee lek tron ik ee dik shun

Sentence: Edith had an electroniceddiction. She had an e-ventful relationship with her computer and she had e-nabled herself to get hopelessly e-ntangled in the World Wide Web. She had finally e-volved her thinking and e-nrolled in a support group. She was not sure how e-ffective this group might be for her, as some of the members had a worse e-ddiction than she did, but e-dmitting the problem was half the battle, right? The only problem with her e-therapy was that her group met on-line instead of in person!

Etymology: Electronic (of or relating to electronics; concerned with or using devices that operate on principles governing the behavior of electrons) & e- (short form of electronic, especially refers to something on computers) & Addiction (being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming)

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COMMENTS:

E-xcellent! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-21: 12:40:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: ter min al ree lay shun ship

Sentence: Rose knew that her terminalrelationship with her computer was hopeless...she'd soon have to go on Dr.Phil or Jerry Springer because she couldn't hack it anymore.

Etymology: terminal (computer & near death) & relationship (connectedness to another)

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COMMENTS:

Ah, very funny!! - Tigger, 2008-01-30: 02:43:00

clever! lol! - bananabender, 2008-01-30: 03:35:00

Is there a computer hospice to go to for terminalrelationships? - silveryaspen, 2008-01-30: 06:49:00

excellent - galwaywegian, 2008-01-30: 07:30:00

Yes, galwaywegian, if you think you have the virus, you should maybe check into a LANatarium or the Sick e-bay or even the sPCa for help. Cheers everyone, Nosila - Nosila, 2008-01-31: 23:19:00

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Created by: sean30

Pronunciation: Zu-GoE-Centric

Sentence: Stuck in an office all day leaves me feeling a bit Zugoecentric with my computer.

Etymology: Zugo (from latin Zugotoes : yoked/fusion of two/locked together) - E (Electronic ie e-mail, e-commerce) - Centric (dependent/to be central focus)

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COMMENTS:

nice word - bookowl, 2008-01-30: 20:10:00

Creative - Nice word1 - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-30: 16:26:00

Using a computer brings out the eccentricities in all of us! V nice word! - bananabender, 2008-01-30: 18:27:00

I'm sure glad you put the etymology cause this dummy thought it was a typo and was a combo with zygotes in it ... more laughter ... at my ignorance. Kudos, to all who use the uncommon, for I am learning new words from you along with the verboticisms. - silveryaspen, 2008-01-30: 19:39:00

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Created by: zebrahdh

Pronunciation: Com-plag-gruh-veh-tion

Sentence: I checking my email from home can be very complaggravating since I am still using a 56k dial-up modem.

Etymology: Computer + Lag + Aggravation

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COMMENTS:

You hit the major computer complaint with this one! Clever creation. - silveryaspen, 2008-01-30: 06:56:00

Your word sounds reallly good when said with attitude through gritted teeth, just how I am when my Dell is running amuck! - bananabender, 2008-01-31: 00:21:00

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