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DEFINITION: v. To copy and share an idea, thing, or person because you think that it's so wonderful that everyone should have one. n. An open source clone.
Verboticisms
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Reusination
Created by: 1badmf
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Reusination is quite popular among today's college students. Sharing ideas to benefit others.
Etymology:
Evangecloning
Created by: inkvision
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The early evangecloners wrote zines and compiled custom mix cassettes. Now, evangecloning is the habit of flickr pros, bloggers porting rss feed from BoingBoing, MySpace "musicians", YouTube uploaders and hollywood film copiers.
Etymology: Evangelize, cloning
Idolspread
Created by: pifty
Pronunciation: ajdolspred
Sentence: he adores that man so much that he idolspreads his image everywhere.
Etymology: idol + spread
Allyourbasitis
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: all your base are belong to us - ha ha ha!
Sentence: That "god kills a kitten" picture has showed up in my inbox about 25 times - looks like some folks have got a serious case of allyourbasitis.
Etymology: all your base! all your base! all your base are belong to us!
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COMMENTS:
This might be the funniest word I've ever seen on verbotomy. Good job! - iwasatripwire, 2007-05-07: 17:41:00
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Karmagate
Created by: Kurisu
Pronunciation: KAR-muh-gayt
Sentence: This show is so fantastic, it needs to karmagate more freely.
Etymology: Karma: the force generated by a person's actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to perpetuate transmigration + propagate (and you should look that one up for yourself if you don't know it, because there are several applicable meanings)
Eupagate
Created by: mjmlabs
Pronunciation: YOOP-uh-gayt
Sentence: That new song has really been eupagating widely; I sent it to my brother, and he sent it to his girlfriend, and she sent it to her co-worker, and she sent it to her therapist ... and that's ME!
Etymology: Eu- (prefix; "Good; well; true," as well as "A derivative of a specified substance") + propagate (and you should look that one up for yourself if you don't know it, because there are several applicable meanings that I'm not about to type out)
Repligate
Created by: autophile
Pronunciation: rep-li-gate
Sentence: This app is hot, I repligated it on my share!
Etymology: Portmanteau of replicate (to copy) + propagate (to spread)
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COMMENTS:
Alternative spelling: replagate - autophile, 2007-05-07: 19:39:00
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Meemcream
Created by: jonathanbruder
Pronunciation: /mēmkrēm/
Sentence: That cat was ugly. But she thought it was perfect, and proceeded to meemcream it all over the county.
Etymology: meme (a cultural item transmitted by repetition) + cream (to froth; foam)
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COMMENTS:
i enjoy the slightly lurid overtones - benjamin, 2007-05-07: 20:27:00
nothing slightly about it :) - jonathanbruder, 2007-05-07: 20:28:00
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Memepose
Created by: cohenarie
Pronunciation: meem POZ
Sentence: Creating a MySpace page for a friend, even if you're frustrated that they haven't made their own, is a memeposition.
Etymology: Meme + Impose
Copyousness
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: copy/us/ness
Sentence: Sam was a legend for his copyousness proclivity. He built a fortress around his cubicle with his favourite photocopies.
Etymology: copiousness(ample) + copy + us
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COMMENTS:
Welcome back, Jabberwocky! - Nosila, 2009-11-24: 01:14:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was inspired by Cory Doctorow's short stories "Printcrime" and "I-Robot" which are both appear in Overclocked. Thank you Cory! ~ James
I absolutely LOVE the illustration on the homepage... gorgeous. Who did it?
Hi inkvision, Thanks for positive review on the drawing. Glad you like it! It was created by me (James Gang), or one of my clones, I'm not sure which. But really, it was nothing, we just copied Cory. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by doctorow. Thank you doctorow. ~ James