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DEFINITION: n. A person who engages themselves in several different communication channels at the same time, without paying attention to any of them v. To constantly switch your focus between cellphone calls, text messages, emails, and anything else that beeps.
Verboticisms
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Twitiot
Created by: Laurenza
Pronunciation: Twi-diot
Sentence: Look at that twitiot driving into the telephone pole!
Etymology:
Hertzhop
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: HURTS--hop
Sentence: Roxie often drifted into gormless gizmazement, hertzhopping endlessly from emailing to a silent radio reverie.
Etymology: Blend of HERTZ: from the German physicist Heinrich Hertz. A unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second; it is abbreviated Hz. It is commonly used to specify the frequency of radio waves, and also the clock frequencies in digital computers. His experiments with these electromagnetic waves led to the development of the wireless telegraph and the radio. In the fantastic voyage: From electricity to electronics Heinrich Hertz among others helped in ... micro- electronics, particularly its impact on the computer industry. ... & HOP: to jump from place to place or from thing to thing.
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COMMENTS:
Excellent word, great sentence, based on an exceptional etymology. - silveryaspen, 2008-12-12: 12:13:00
It hurts to hertzhop that much! - Nosila, 2008-12-12: 16:20:00
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Multitascatterbrain
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: mul-teh-task-SKAT-ehr-brane
Sentence: Muriel is an absolute mutltitascatterbrain, constantly engaged in texting her friends, monitoring her email, updating her blog page, doing her makeup, talking on the phone and watching soaps thru the day and remembering little of what she'd seen, heard or said.
Etymology: Blend of multitask and scatterbrain
Scandialus
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: skan dye lus
Sentence: Her behaviour was scandialous, scanning every dial within sight, texting with both hands while steering with her chest.
Etymology: scandalous, scan, dial.
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COMMENTS:
Great dialect! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-28: 09:32:00
very funny galway - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-28: 12:43:00
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Multispacing
Created by: freestyle
Pronunciation: Noun: multispacer
Sentence: "I can't believe Gary spends every day multispacing with his laptop, cell phone, video game console and web tv setup." -- "Yeah, he generally can't even tell you any specific thing he's done in the last week!" -- "He's such a multispacer!"
Etymology: multitasking - spacing out
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COMMENTS:
Fits the definition spectacularly! Truly great creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-28: 12:52:00
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Https
Created by: squarishtriangle
Pronunciation: aitch-tea-tea-pea-ess
Sentence: She finally came to admitting her addiction and convinced herself to see a therapist about her long suffering from the modern day pandemic HTTPS, online of course.
Etymology: Acronym for Hyper Text, Type and Phone Syndrome
Incomingtaxt
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: in - cum - ing - tax - t
Sentence: The butterflies in my stomach are caused by the buzz fluttering of all my communication devices. You might say I'im a bit over incomingtaxt.
Etymology: Incoming: arriving Taxed: strained
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COMMENTS:
nice one silvery - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-28: 13:20:00
The taxman is sure to have his finger in the pie! Very clever and funny creation. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-28: 15:35:00
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Ejuggle
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈiˌdʒʌgḷ/ /EE-Juhg-l/
Sentence: He was an inveterate faultitasker, and he used e-juggle at three portable electronic devices while carrying on polylogues with four different friends. Unfortunately, he can't do this anymore, so he now uses seven devices and has zero friends. In the end, he figured it's all the same, right?
Etymology: from e(lectronic) + juggle
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COMMENTS:
See http://www.verbotomy.com/verbottle.php?jargonism_id=4064&definition_id=77 for the origin of "faultitask". - ErWenn, 2008-02-28: 09:28:00
Three great high-tech creates! You hit the juggler vein with this one! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-28: 10:02:00
Jugglers and desultors - must be a circus in town! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-28: 15:41:00
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Txtphnml
Created by: happywhenitrains
Pronunciation: Text-Foyn-Mayl
Sentence:
Etymology: Text+Phone+Mail, in "txt" style
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by magillo. Thank you magillo. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-02-28: 10:05:00
Fun definition! It's and inboxed knock out!
silveryaspen - 2008-02-28: 10:11:00
That should be ... an ... not and ... in my comment above! This is what happens when my fingertips think they can override my brain!
Today's definition was suggested by magillo. Thank you magillo. ~ James
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