Verboticisms

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: 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: bookowl

Pronunciation: ee/clik/ti/cal

Sentence: A truly eclicktical personality orbits the mouse pad constantly, clicking as he does so.

Etymology: click + ecliptical (circular path)

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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: thinkbolt

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

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: reh - PET - uh - clik

Sentence: Having several windows constantly open on his computer, Morton would compulsively repeticlick, jumping from window to window refreshing Verbotomy standings, his news and financial pages, Yahoo Sports pages, the Drudgereport and checking for responses on his MySpace page.

Etymology: Blend of 'repetitive' (pertaining to or characterized by repetition) and 'Click'

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COMMENTS:

great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-18: 10:49:00

Terrific. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-20: 07:10:00

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: click-to-main-ee-a

Sentence: Dan realized that Marcy's clictomania had gotten out of control when he began to find mice hidden all over the house. It was obvious that her compulsive click-refresh, click-refresh behavior had worn them all out and she didn't want anyone to know she had this condition. No matter what, he knew it was time to confront her with the evidence and look for some kind of intervention before she ended up in real trouble.

Etymology: click + kleptomania: an obsessive compulsion to steal regardless of economic need

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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: 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: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: fas/ti/dee/mouse

Sentence: Mickey was overly fastidimouse and could not let more than ten seconds elapse before checking his ebay account.

Etymology: fastidious (overly fussy) + mouse

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COMMENTS:

Me likey. :) - lumina, 2008-07-19: 22:23:00

Good word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-20: 07:12:00

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Created by: verysimplegame

Pronunciation: My-so-crow-nus

Sentence: The last two minutes of each ebay auction rendered Jules quite misochronous.

Etymology: Mice + isochronous

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(my-so-crow-nus) - verysimplegame, 2007-05-08: 08:35:00

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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: brightetes8

Pronunciation: (ree-fresh-uh-klik-may-nee-uh)(NOUN)

Sentence: His refreshaclickmania led him to wasted hours on the same web page.

Etymology: refresh as in reloading a web page + a -a pronoun + click as in the most common action used on a computer mouse + mania as in a obsessive disorder that is compulsive and sometimes leads to hysteria.

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Created by: trunktickle

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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: scottrobot

Pronunciation: miss-a-date-a-fo-bee-a

Sentence: Sam had Missadateaphobia because he feared that he would miss an update on his favorite website.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: Kur soree now

Sentence: Cursorrynow? Cursorrynow? Whose mouse is aching, From over-refreshing and how! Who's sad and blue From all that on-line shopping, whew! Wait till your Visa bill comes to you. Right to the end, you'll be in debt, and have to work till you're dead. We tried to warn you somehow... You've had your way Now you must pay E-Bay We're glad that you're cursorrynow!

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) & Sorry (having regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone) & Now (this minute)...Play on old Connie Francis tune: Who's Sorry Now? (Sorry, Connie)

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Oh, great -- now this tune will be with me all day. - mrskellyscl, 2009-11-16: 07:13:00

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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: klik - sey - shuhn

Sentence: Research shows that verbotomists wearing long-sleeved orange shirts with weird designs on it have a slightly higher tendency of clixation compared to others. Furthermore, verbotomists with much higher tendencies of clixation ... are those who own a mouse.

Etymology: click + fixation (an obsession)

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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

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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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very clever - petaj, 2007-05-01: 00:17:00

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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: 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)

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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: 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: idavecook

Pronunciation: clique-shay

Sentence: If Marcy's clikche doesn't subside, I am going to have to get out the arsenic. NO, it's for me.

Etymology: Clik + Cliche

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Created by: thefreewheeler

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Pam, get an RSS reader or learn to deal with not having the latest news--your currentica is bugging me.

Etymology: from adj. 'current' : latest avaialble.

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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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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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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: Osomatic

Pronunciation: click + see + uh

Sentence: I have a mild case of clicksia when it comes to my online banking, I check it a good 10 times a day.

Etymology: click + um, diseases that end in "sia."

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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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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: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Clik-ee-mous-ay-nia

Sentence: Jo unfortunately sufferered from an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which led to her constantly checking and rechecking things. Last month it was seeing if the gas cooker had been left on, this month she had developed clickymouseania with the button on her laptop, she felt compelled to refresh every page she went to just to check the status. She spent so much time doing this that she hardly looked at any of the webpages she was on.

Etymology: Click (an act of pressing one of the buttons on a computer mouse) + Mouse (a small hand held device which controls cursor movements on a computer screen) + Mania (Mental illness marked by periods of overactivity, an obsession) = Clickymouseania

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funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-18: 10:48:00

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Created by: AnnieChandon

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Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: mows/fret/eer/ing

Sentence: Don's kids were known march around the room behind him during the last few minutes of his Ebay auctions singing, "Who's the leader of Ebay, who's Dad to you and me...C-L-I...CK-E -Y...M-O-U-S-E." He did not appreciate their mocking his affliction. Mousefreteering is not a laughing matter, and he has the handicapped plaque in his car to prove it.

Etymology: Root word-Mousketeer: One of a group of children appearing on the television program The Mickey Mouse Club in the 1950's. Fret: fuss: worry unnecessarily or excessively.

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: hooked-n-clicks

Sentence: Shelly's hooktonclix resulted in uncontrollable contractions of her lumbricals. Part of her therapy was to set up a feed aggregator to do the updating for her.

Etymology: hooked on (addicted to) + Braxton Hicks (contractions experienced during pregnancy) + click

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oooohhhh... Toni Braxton. XD - ohwtepph, 2007-04-30: 05:11:00

Congrats on winning the mug, Petaj! Did you pick a verbotomy for it yet? I like your "tabooty". - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-30: 06:59:00

I think I'll go for "insultant" since it's my best one from last week. - petaj, 2007-05-01: 00:20:00

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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: re-mous-ing

Sentence: Ralph was quickly remousing his computer in order to win the bid on Flea-Bay.

Etymology: Re - To repeat. Mouse - A computer mouse with the most common standard features: two buttons and a scroll wheel, which can also act as a third button. In computing, a mouse is a pointing device that functions by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its supporting surface. Physically, a mouse consists of an object held under one of the user's hands, with one or more buttons. Ing - The act of a remouser that's remousing.

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Created by: Ellemorpheus

Pronunciation: Ow-toe-presh-yon

Sentence: His autopression not only got on my nerves, but surved to ensure his computer would freeze often.

Etymology: auto-self press-push/click ion-obsession continuation of action.as in the word obsession.

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Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: dăt - ə - gŏg

Sentence: I knew it was useless to keep clicking the button, but I couldn't help myself, I was totally overwhelmed with datagog.

Etymology: data + agog (agog: Full of keen anticipation or excitement; eager.)

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Created by: anniki

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: flikərklikər

Sentence: Bob is a habitual flickerclicker. His obsessive mouse clicking has caused more than one office mate to ask for a transfer. Even his computer has been known to shut down in protest.

Etymology: flicker (make small, quick movements; flutter rapidly) (an American woodpecker) + clicker (a device such as a computer mouse that clicks)

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Created by: Pasicheio

Pronunciation: Re-Fresh-Oh-Hall-Ism

Sentence: Jerry is a refreshoholic when it comes to news websites

Etymology: Refresh; Alcoholism

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: KLIHK-kihk

Sentence: Alex's clickkick meant he had to replace his mouth every three months.

Etymology: click + kick (thrill, or addiction)

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OY OY OY, that was odd, I meant "mouse", of course. I didn't know I typed with a lisp. :P - mplsbohemian, 2007-04-30: 11:01:00

Hehe! Reminds me of the time I typed Whittier, California with an S instead of a W! - toadstool57, 2007-04-30: 19:09:00

And would you believe I'm changing my first name to Whittier? I'll remember to be careful of that! - mplsbohemian, 2007-04-30: 21:24:00

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

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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: 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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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: web/dex/iety

Sentence: When checking to see if her numerous items on e-Bay sold, wwwebdexiety 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 than a second ago for her items.

Etymology: WWWEBDEXIETY - noun - from WWWEB (world wide web) + INDEX (a reference table that contains the keys, or references needed to address computer data items) + INDEX FINGER (the forefinger) + ANXIETY (distress, or uneasiness of mind caused by fear; tense desire, or eagerness)

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: el-eck-ron-ic-mail

Sentence: He was completely addicted to checking his inbox every three minutes. He was an elechronicmailer.

Etymology: electronic mail (online communication) + chronic (habitual or inveterate)

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: ree-fresh-all-oh-jee

Sentence: Although Purpleartichokes was a follower of Refreshology, at the end of the day, her word garnered 11 points; eschewed by verbotomists like yesterday's meatloaf proffered alongside lobstertail and filet mignon.

Etymology: refresh, reflexology

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LOL. you certainly get my vote! - ohwtepph, 2007-04-30: 05:08:00

and I have to admit, too, i have myself a severe case of refreshology in verbotomy. But I'd say it's more like a... clixation. - ohwtepph, 2007-04-30: 05:09:00

As someone here once said, it may require a verbotomy lobotomy. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-30: 06:50:00

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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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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: 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: 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: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ree fret ish

Sentence: he had a serious refretish, especially when he had posted a new word.

Etymology: refresh fetish

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nice one - petaj, 2007-05-01: 00:15:00

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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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