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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.
Verboticisms
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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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COMMENTS:
Good one. - Mustang, 2008-10-06: 18:58:00
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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
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:
Papier mache, a nice touch. - artr, 2008-10-06: 06:16:00
Nice! - TJayzz, 2008-10-06: 06:50:00
So you dabble in fileanthropy? - zxvasdf, 2008-10-06: 10:51:00
"curses - filed again" - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-06: 11:58:00
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)
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)
Pulpliferation
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)
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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COMMENTS:
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.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James'
remistram - 2007-11-07: 09:09:00
I worked with someone like this!
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
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