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DEFINITION: n. The inability to find, organize, or keep track of, simple physical objects. Often occurs when an individual has developed a search-engine dependency. v. To search for something that should be easy to find.
Verboticisms
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Antigoogle
Created by: dimercurio
Pronunciation: an-tee-goo-gul
Sentence: After being stuck in an antigoogle for three days, I finally finished antigoogling my keys.
Etymology: anti "against" + Google (search engine)
Yahopless
Created by: kryptik
Pronunciation: ya-hoh-ples
Sentence: My brother can find the history of Prague online, but he can't keep track of his own keys. He's seriously yahopeless.
Etymology: From the word 'Yahoo' and 'Hopeless'
Unfindicity
Created by: vixphilia
Pronunciation: Emphasis on the "fin"
Sentence: Dan's unfindicity makes me positively crazy!
Etymology:
Clickaddicted
Created by: sarach
Pronunciation: click-ah-dik-ted
Sentence: I'm so click addicted I tried to Google the newspaper I was reading this morning.
Etymology:
Objectquest
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: object quest
Sentence: To find anything in your room is an objectquest. The holy grail must be easier to find
Etymology: from objects and quest as in an impossible task.
Lostcated
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: loss - kate - ed
Sentence: Brenda often lostcated simple things; like the glasses that were perched right on her head or her car keys that always disappeared inside her purse.
Etymology: lost, located
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COMMENTS:
I get it, she couldn't see her glasses cause they were on her nose. That never happens to me... - jrogan, 2009-08-11: 08:55:00
Been there, done that, just cannot remember when... - Nosila, 2009-08-11: 12:21:00
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Googleptic
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: goo-gel-ep-tic
Sentence: James was standing naked in his bedroom. He couldn't find his socks. He grabbed his iphone which was strapped to his hip -- that's right he slept with it and nothing else. He texted his socks. They didn't reply. He twittered them. No response. He phoned. No answer. So he googled his name plus socks and found a post on his blog which said "Look in sock drawer". And thank goodness he did, otherwise he would have had a googleptic fit.
Etymology: google + epilepsy
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COMMENTS:
good word... - mweinmann, 2009-08-11: 07:44:00
googlepic word - Nosila, 2009-08-11: 12:20:00
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Messysearch
Created by: Joachimgraf
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I messysearch my socks
Etymology:
Ramnesia
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: RAM-knee-zha
Sentence: Jim can track down the latest Lindsay Lohan photos in 12 seconds flat online, but he developed ramnesia when it was time to pay his credit card bills.
Etymology: RAM (random access memory) + amnesia
Lostaganism
Created by: nancyblue
Pronunciation: lost-tag-an-ism
Sentence: Hillary erupted in lostaganism upon learning that her red old stand-bye pantsuit was not picked up at the cleaners, because the store had gone out of business due to the great recession.
Etymology: lost: become unable to find ------ antagonism: active hostility or opposition
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COMMENTS:
Lostaginism occurs for many reasons: a lost hair clip,missing glove, misplaced infant child - nancyblue, 2011-01-03: 20:44:00
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