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DEFINITION: v. To obsess over, and fantasize about electronic gadgets even though you can never figure out how they actually work. n. A beautiful but useless gadget.
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Newtonspire
Created by: jadenguy
Pronunciation: New - Tin - Spire
Sentence: She coughed into her sleeve as she roamed the back alleys looking for her available dumpster, one left undisturbed by the savage local gearheads; the south side seemed promising, teeming with office parks rented often to failed startups. Her next hit of Newtonspiration would come in the form of a smart-minifridge. The internet would never go want for her milk-status again!
Etymology: Apple Newton + inspire or perspire or maybe just a spire, like the holy thing on churches that doesn't really mean anything in modern Christianity (look it up).
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COMMENTS:
great story as usual jadenguy - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-04: 12:21:00
thanks! i really like to put time into carefully crafting the exact feel of my word through narrative. - jadenguy, 2007-06-04: 12:33:00
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Inflappuation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: in flap u ay shun
Sentence: When he saw her pink electronic device, Kenny had an attack of inflappuation. Like a magpie obsessed with shiny things, he was attracted to all things from cyber space. So bemused was he that he failed to notice Wendy's "device" was actually her container of Secret deodorant. That is why it is strong enough for a man, but made for a woman!
Etymology: Infatuation (an object of extravagant short-lived passion) & App (short for application...a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task)
Technilogigoof
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: tek-neh-LODJ-eh-gewf
Sentence: Roger fancied himself to be very hip on evolving technology but he was, in fact, a technilogigoof, harboring much misinformation and many misperceptions, among them believing that RAM is a Dodge truck and an IPad a medical dressing used in eye injuries.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'technology' (n. the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life) and 'goof' (n. a foolish or stupid person)
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COMMENTS:
Haha! I love your sentence today Mustang. :) - Rhyme79, 2012-10-01: 11:17:00
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Electrowidget
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: e lect o wid jet
Sentence: He bought the $600 red electrowidget as a gift for himself on Father's Day even though he had no clue what it was.
Etymology: electro - run by electricity widget - something non-understandable but useful.
Technologlee
Created by: jerschneid
Pronunciation: TEK-NAH-LO-GLEE
Sentence: Sharon was too overcome by technologlee to realize that her "new iPhone" was actually an old Walkman.
Etymology: A combination of technology and glee.
Gorgauseless
Created by: weareallbeautiful
Pronunciation: g-or-j-uh-u-s-l-eh-ss
Sentence: Bob stared at the gorgauseless blue object in his hand wondering how it worked when Abby walked by and said "Put my paperweight down Bob!"
Etymology: gorgeous+useless
Electrosess
Created by: franticff
Pronunciation: e-LEK-tro-sess
Sentence: You're so electrosessed; get your own iPhone!
Etymology: electric + obsess
Beautronic
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Bew-tron-ik
Sentence: Al was in awe of Katie's shiny new beautronic device. To his dismay...it was not something he could compute.
Etymology: Taken in part of the word Beautiful: "Beau" - The concept of beauty. Taken in part of the word Electronic- "Tronic" - Of or pertaining to electronics or to devices, circuits, or systems developed through electronics
Elecon
Created by: duchessella
Pronunciation: E-le-con
Sentence: I know it is just an elecon, but I can't stop thinking of that newly released electronic can opener!
Etymology: From "electric gadgets" and "Lolicon" In Japanese pop culture, "-con" is a suffix for attraction, fantasy and/or obsession to a certain characteristic in a person, for example Lolicon means attraction to young girls (lolita). Alternative meaning is "elegant icon" - the sleek, beautiful, elegant fashion icon electronic gadgets are to us nowadays.
Guessmo
Created by: Rhyme79
Pronunciation: guess-moe
Sentence: To Jimmy anything with a seemingly random stream of letters and numbers after its name is a guessmo. The new iFadpad 7X37tz comes with a free firewall and is a shiny thing of beauty. But Jimmy didn't know if he could talk to his mum with it or if he was supposed to attach it to his wall and let it download the internet into his brain. Maybe it was just a fire alarm.
Etymology: A play on the word 'gizmo'. Having to guess at the function of a gadget due to a lack of technological knowledge.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by shutz. Thank you shutz! ~ James
Read about Jabberwocky's Garden of Verbal Delights in Verbotoweek.
pronunciation: uh-GOG-uh-tek........... sentence:Poor old Ira Gobler was AGOGATECH at his designer's latest device.He was so AGOGATECH that he let the factory's flaccid finances flow into a virtual vat of vapors while he thoughtfully tinkered and tweaked the tin toys and gamboled among the gizmoes generated just beyond the grounded iron gates of the fabrication facility...Someday...he would write an operator's manual...................... etymology: Agog+at+Technology=aGOGatech!
Sometimes my "comments" seem to appear in the wrong places....if only some clever soul would invent a GIZBO to prevent that.
....my brain hurts.....
Today's definition was suggested by shutz. Thank you shutz. ~ James