Verboticisms

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: 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")

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Created by: anniki

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: oh see theeeeees

Sentence: His ohseethese led to an RSI, two STDs amd eventually, a P45.

Etymology: oh see these OCD

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: re-fresh-a-hol-ic

Sentence: Bill was a refreshaholic and compulsively would recheck his email and favorite blogs for updates.

Etymology: refresh + aholic

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: ad-clik-shun

Sentence: after 3 hours of compulsive refreshing, he realised he had a serious addclicktion

Etymology: addiction, click

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Created by: Splosion

Pronunciation: Web - blink - ing

Sentence: I don't blink when looking at webpages; I webblink, letting the page do it for me.

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ek lik tik

Sentence: her habits were most eclicktic

Etymology: click tic eclectic

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COMMENTS:

ecellent - Nosila, 2009-11-16: 23:00:00

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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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COMMENTS:

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

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Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: brain-framing (like mainframe & aiming with a brain in the beginning)

Sentence: He was brainframing since two hours on verbotomy.com, but nobody voted for his spuntastic words. She was totally brainframed by a mad user looking for the mystical secret hidden in the pixel-cascade of that slow-loading illuminatus-webpage - after brainframing for 23 hours she finally found out that there was a hidden 23px margin between the background of the main-div and the logo-image.

Etymology: The word comes from the Pixelfarmers of the South. They like to hang out and load frame after frame, again and again, into their biological mainframe, into their brain - for hours - since years. Framefarmers... but that's how they are...

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