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DEFINITION: n. Obsessive-compulsive rechecking or "refreshing" of an item (especially a webpage) to see if its status has changed; often leads to repetitive mouse-clicking disorder.v. To constantly recheck or refresh your twitter page, or email account.
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Refreshomania
Created by: MissRabbit
Pronunciation: ri - FRESH - o - may - ni - a
Sentence: Afflicted by a severe case of refreshomania, John sat before his computer obsessively reloading Ebay to see if his bid was still in the lead.
Etymology: refresh: from the common computer term for reloading a screen, from the Old English refreschen ("reinvigorate") mania: from the Greek mania ("madness")
Compulsorecheck
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)
Micehockey
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: myse/hahky
Sentence: Jack was a champion micehockey player constantly on his game, cleverly mouse handling with one hand while fielding phone calls with the other
Etymology: ice hockey + mouse (plural, mice)
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COMMENTS:
very clever - petaj, 2007-05-01: 00:17:00
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Clickflixation
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: clik/fix/ay/shun
Sentence: He was often accused of having a clickflixation because he carried his mouse around in his pocket when he was offline
Etymology: a take on chickflick + click + flick + fixation
Oversite
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: over syte
Sentence: Due to his oversite and excitement on getting a reply, all of the 1200 hits on his singles ad were his own.
Etymology: Over (overdo;too much) & Site (a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web)and Wordplay on oversight (an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something)
Clicketytwit
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: KLIK eh tee TWIT
Sentence: Jan doesn't need instant messaging capability because she is more inclined to clicketytwit her twitter page, Hotmail mailbox, and Facebook page in quick succession to see if she has any new messages. She doesn't even remember what "real time" is anymore. She likes to rapidly clicketytwit on Evite to see "Who is Coming" or who has sent "Regrets" to her parties and gatherings. She was busy doing this one late morning, sitting around in her pajamas, when she suddenly realized one of the events she had posted an invitation for was her own wedding, and that it was about three hours later that same day!
Etymology: Click + lickety-split (rapidly) + twit (could refer to twitter, or to a person who is a twit, take it however you like)
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COMMENTS:
clickitydoodah - Nosila, 2009-11-16: 23:01:00
It can be maddening to have to wait for the computer to update, enough to clicketyspit. - artr, 2009-11-19: 12:49:00
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Micettes
Created by: hooterbug
Pronunciation: \ˈmīs\ets-
Sentence: Martha had a full on case of micettes as she waited impatiently on a page view of her newly loaded Match.com profile.
Etymology: Combination of MICE + Tourettes (a familial neurological disorder of variable expression that is characterized by recurrent involuntary tics involving body movements (as eye blinks or grimaces) and vocalizations (as grunts or utterance of inappropriate words), often has one or more associated conditions (as obsessive-compulsive disorder), is more common in males than females, and usually has an onset in childhood and often stabilizes or ameliorates in adulthood
Addclicktion
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ad-clik-shun
Sentence: after 3 hours of compulsive refreshing, he realised he had a serious addclicktion
Etymology: addiction, click
Refreshnatic
Created by: Kenge92
Pronunciation: Ree-Fresh-Nat-ic
Sentence: Susan was a refreshnatic, always refreshing like a fanatic, on her facebook and myspace page. She will never get it that she's not popular.
Etymology: Refresh- To Fresh Again. Natic- From Fanatic- to be obsessed with
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