Verboticisms

Created by: thinkbolt

Pronunciation: ob-sess-iv-com-press-iv

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Created by: AnnieChandon

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Created by: trunktickle

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: web/dex/iety

Sentence: When checking her e-Bay sales, webdexiety over took her checking again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again to see if anybody had bid higher for her item.

Etymology: web + index finger + anxiety

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: WEB-ber-nek

Sentence: Roxie feared that if Bob continued to be such an obsessive webberneck, staring curiously and inquisitively whilst clicking frequently from webpage to webpage, he soon would become emouseculated.

Etymology: WEBBER: a user of the WWW; an internet user & NECK (as in rubberneck);straining one's neck to watch, checkout what's going on; gawk. EMOUSECULATE: Lose one's webrility or E-potency.

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love it! - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-18: 10:47:00

Great word! - Mustang, 2008-07-18: 18:33:00

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Created by: pinwheel

Pronunciation: sy/click

Sentence: Harry had cyclick phases where he would refresh the daily Verbotomy words so frequently that his finger was developing a double-click twitch.

Etymology: cyclic (on a regular basis) + click (the button)

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Do you think it's a cycological problem? - petaj, 2007-04-30: 05:15:00

It could well be cycosomatclick! - pinwheel, 2007-04-30: 05:17:00

very nice! - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-30: 12:39:00

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Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: ree-fresh-iv-cum-pol-siv-dis-or-dur

Sentence: The loving teenagers checked their emails every minute to see what the other wrote, and soon both acquired RefreshiveCompulsiveDisorder.

Etymology: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder + Refresh

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: com-PULS-er-ee-chek

Sentence: Following his usual pattern, Lester accomplished his one hundredth compulsorecheck of his email, his twitter account and his Facebook wall and as usual all rechecks revealed no new entries.

Etymology: Blend of compulsory (bound for, fated in near future) and recheck - to check again (check - to make an inquiry, investigation, etc., as for verification)

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Created by: Rhyme79

Pronunciation: cuh-leh-king

Sentence: "Argh, twitter has given me a real clecking issue!" "I must have clecked that page a hundred times hoping for an update."

Etymology: An amalgam of the words clicking and checking. Note that re-clecking is grammatically incorrect as clecking intrinsically refers to repeated actions.

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Your first verboticism? Excellent word, definitely 'useable'. :) - Discoveria, 2012-09-10: 16:43:00

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈʌpdeɪtˌlʌst/

Sentence: A watched blog never posts, but this does nothing to lessen the updatelust.

Etymology: From update + lust

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