Verboticisms

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: mous - sess - iv

Sentence: Clyde had become mousessive. He went through 34 mice this year because he could not stop checking his facebook, three email accounts and verbotomy every five minutes, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year.

Etymology: mouse, obsessive

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mousexcess - Nosila, 2009-11-17: 01:55:00

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Created by: suzanne

Pronunciation: an- or - axe - eea- nerv oh -sa

Sentence: Tom's anoracksianervosa was getting worse. He was now spellchecking word for the day and googling his dog. Apparently he knows where leif Garret is right now.

Etymology: anorack- type of jecket, preferred clothing of those who get obseesed with ther minutiea of technical life.

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Sounds like Tom would be good at Verbotomy. - wordmeister, 2007-04-30: 21:24:00

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

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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: 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: ekath

Pronunciation: pav-laavz-mouse

Sentence: Myspace, Facebook, and Verbotomoy users often experience Pavlovsmouse syndrome, especially when other work HAS to be done during the given time. By the time the person's fingers get numb, the person probably has to get up and go to the bathroom or get food, in which case the important work will still not get done.

Etymology: from (computer) mouse + pavlov's dogs (an experiment that involved the repetitive ringing of a bell to fool dogs into thinking there was food... because we click and click even if theres NO realistic chance at a site update)

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Created by: billnruth

Pronunciation: multi-mouse-ing

Sentence: John was at it again, the hand going ten to the dozen, multimousing without a thought for the poor mouse. Completely unproductive, known in the office as having a serious dose of the MMs.

Etymology: multi -- meaning many times (lat) mouse -- plastic rodent at the end of a wire or increasingly wireless (OE/mod Am)

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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

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kur sor ree

Sentence: Leonard was in such a hurry to see if his on-line introduction service had found him a perfect match, he checked his e-mail & texts about a hundred times every hour. He did it so much, that his thumb went numb. He ended up being cursorry when the service finally wrote back to give him the bad news..."We are cursorry, but we have been unable to find an ideal match for you...someone who has a lot in common with you. In fact, we have never had a math/physics whiz, who lived in her parent's basement, does not work or go to school, does not enjoy showering or bathing, eats pizza three times a day and besides a large comic book collection, enjoys tarantulas, farting contests with loser friends and watches Big Bang Theory all day long. It was a big surprise to us as well..."

Etymology: Cursor ((computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving the cursor allows the user to point to commands or screen positions) & Cursory(hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough)& Sorry(feeling or expressing sorrow, regret or pity)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: əpwāt

Sentence: Paul has to constantly upwait his fave web pages. He has made a rule for himself that he must upwait at least for a count of 3 between clicks. He*s found that he can count to 3 very fast. Who has a new status on Facebook? Who is ahead in the pillow fight? Who has tweeted? Did they say something about him? He has to know.

Etymology: update (make something more modern or up to date) wait (stay where one is or delay action until a particular time or until something else happens)

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