Verboticisms

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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COMMENTS:

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

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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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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: reh-prob-SESSD

Sentence: Millicent is reprobsessed, burdened by a perceived 'need' to print out everything from her emails, office correspondence, on line bill payments, and other kinds of on-line data that she is inundated with daily.

Etymology: Blend of 'reproduce' (To make a copy of) and 'obsessed' (the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea)

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Created by: emilylind

Pronunciation: Say print then o and the holic

Sentence: Hes a printoholic

Etymology:

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Created by: leechdude

Pronunciation: pas-ter-pulp

Sentence: No one from the "Green Club" favoured Susan's actions when she started pasterpulping frantically.

Etymology: paste (print), pulp (element of paper)

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COMMENTS:

my fourth creation - leechdude, 2007-11-07: 22:37:00

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Created by: xirtam

Pronunciation: uh-dok-shuh n

Sentence: Larry’s insistence that every piece of electronic communication coming into his legal office be printed was just another sign of his addoction.

Etymology: Doc: abbr Document: Latin documentum; A written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence. + Addiction: Latin addictiōn; The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or involved in something.

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: high-po-copy-a

Sentence: Jen had hypocopya and regarded her copier key as a datalisman which would protect her from losing her soul if her hard drive was destroyed. She had joined the office cult of datalism, a belief that the data she created in this life would go with her to the afterlife where she would be judged by the quality of the work she produced.

Etymology: hypochondria: abnormal anxiety about the state of one's health + copy

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COMMENTS:

datalism, good word - Nosila, 2010-03-04: 18:12:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: puh/pahy/ruhlim/ee/uh

Sentence: With unlimited reams of corporate paper, Sally slowly descended the long, lonely path of papyrulimia where she continuously feed the photocopy machine as much paper as it could swallow and with great satisfaction watched it spew out copy after copy after copy.

Etymology: papyrus (PAPER) + bulimia

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COMMENTS:

Interesting and great blend! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-07: 16:34:00

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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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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: print-ah-file

Sentence: when he finished printing out every file he had that was related to 'paper wastage in modern society', he realised he was a hopeless printaphile

Etymology: print a file, the suffix 'phile'

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COMMENTS:

excellent word - very usable - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-07: 09:41:00

Excellent and apt! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-07: 16:35:00

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