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'How many trees did you kill to print that?'

DEFINITION: v., To compulsively print out paper copies of all electronic files. n., A printing fetish common among paper pushers who suffer from a paranoid fear that their digital files are disintegrating on their hard drives.

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Xerobsession

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: zee robs esss yun

Sentence: her boeese reaction to her xerobsession, when discovered, was unprintable.

Etymology: xerox obsession

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Good one. - Mustang, 2008-10-06: 18:58:00

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Vehecopioitis

Created by: Sambloom

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Pulpatic

Created by: pungineer

Pronunciation: pulp/pah/tic

Sentence: When Josephine offered to print up 50 double sided A5 flyers with details of her family's intervention for her worrying pulpatic behaviour of late, she finally started to believe that they might have a point...

Etymology: Pulp - trees, water and stuff + fanatic/lunatic - one who displays obsessive behaviour

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Fileanthropist

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: file/an/throw/pist

Sentence: Noted for her many benevolent efforts, the famous fileanthropist Felicity Fileworthy established a museum for the printed word. The building itself is constructed of papier mache.

Etymology: file + philanthropist

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COMMENTS:

artr Papier mache, a nice touch. - artr, 2008-10-06: 06:16:00

Nice! - TJayzz, 2008-10-06: 06:50:00

zxvasdf So you dabble in fileanthropy? - zxvasdf, 2008-10-06: 10:51:00

"curses - filed again" - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-06: 11:58:00

zxvasdf haha - zxvasdf, 2008-10-06: 13:47:00

Good one - OZZIEBOB, 2008-10-07: 04:48:00

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Copyiousness

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kop pee us ness

Sentence: Mimi O'Graf drove her boss, Savya Treez, crazy because she printed off everything that came through her e-mail...even things sent to her by mistake. She was suffering from a bad case of copyiousness and to try and curb her fetish, Savya denied her request for another filing cabinet. Mimi already had four of them and she'd only worked there a year. "Mimi", she said, "You are going to have to go through all those files and purge the unimportant. The whole point of us going paperless was to have less paper around!" Said Mimi, "But, Boss, if I have to waste time reading all the old e-mails, I will get behind in printing off the new ones!" "That's it, Mimi!" said Savya, "I am calling the producers of "Intervention" and "Hoarders" to get you some help!!!"

Etymology: Copy (a reproduction of a written record) & Copiousness (the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply)

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Datascriber

Created by: yellowbird

Pronunciation: da-ta-screye-bur

Sentence: Vicki's such a datascriber there's no paper left in the whole office!

Etymology: data + scribe (writer)

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Pulpliferation

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: puhlp-lif-uh-rey-shuh n

Sentence: Joanne doesn't trust her computer. As many times as it has rebelled against her will and done what it logically wants to, she prints out all of her email. To add to the pulpliferation she proofreads each one, corrects grammar and spelling and prints them again.

Etymology: pulp (any soft, moist, slightly cohering mass, as that into which linen, wood, etc., are converted in the making of paper) + proliferation (a rapid and often excessive spread or increase)

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Printcess

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: print/zess

Sentence: Sally was a printcess obsessed with printing out everything written to her in hopes of finding secret messages from her Prints Charming.

Etymology: print + princess + obsess

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COMMENTS:

very funny - got my vote! - remistram, 2007-11-07: 09:10:00

Good word; hilarious sentence! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-07: 16:36:00

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Documentia

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: dok-yuh-MEN-sha

Sentence: As memomagma poured from Roxie's printer, fellow worker worried that her documentia would become dendricidal.

Etymology: Blend of document & dementia.

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libertybelle So clever!! Almost.... too clever... - libertybelle, 2007-11-07: 09:14:00

I think most lawyers suffer from this disease. - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-07: 09:40:00

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Afourrhea

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: Ey-fawr-REE-uh

Sentence: As copy after copy poured from Roxie's printer, fellow worker worried that her afourrhea would become dendricidal. Indeed, sadly, many years previuosly, her mother had succumbed to documentia.

Etymology: Blend of A-FOUR sized paper - the most commonly used paper for printing & RRHEA: a flow, a current.

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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-11-07: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James'

remistram - 2007-11-07: 09:09:00
I worked with someone like this!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-03-04: 00:16:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James

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