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DEFINITION: v. To be so dependent on computers and other gadgets, that you cannot communicate or even think without them. n. A person who cannot communicate, or even think, without using an electronic device.
Verboticisms
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Cellshocked
Created by: fabdiva
Pronunciation: sell-shockt
Sentence: Katie was a terminal cellshocker. Sadly, her boyfriend had resorted to texting her immediately after sex to confirm her satisfaction.
Etymology: Cell - phone network. Shocked - acute physical or mental disturbance/state of confusion.
Appleratus
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: a/pul/ra/tus
Sentence: "Let's see"..."I have my iPod, my iPhone and my Macbook. That's all my appleratus so now I'm all macked, oh sorry I meant packed."
Etymology: apple + apparatus
Symbiotech
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: sim - bee - ot - tek
Sentence: Jeffrey had a symtiotech relationship with his laptop and PDA. He had a difficult time keeping track of his life, making plans or even communicating if he did not have one of them nearby.
Etymology: symbiotic (The intimate living together of two dissimilar organisms, frequently (but not always) in a mutually beneficial relationship), tech (abbreviation for technology)
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COMMENTS:
clever - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-30: 12:47:00
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Cyberspaced
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: sy-bur-spaysd
Sentence: She was google-eyed and about to crash. She was so cyberspaced that she couldn't remember her own name without checking her iphone's contact list. She needed a nap to reboot.
Etymology: CYBERSPACE (the electronic medium of computer networks, in which online communication takes place) + SPACED (to become stupified or disoriented from or as if from a drug.)
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COMMENTS:
another great word and the sentence always woes me over - DrWebster111, 2009-05-01: 18:52:00
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Dumbphoned
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: dum foned
Sentence: After leaving his phone at the bar last night Doug couldn't even call his own mother. He was completely dumbphoned,
Etymology: dumbfounded + phone
Ependent
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ēpendənt
Sentence: Some people write themselves notes to remember important things. John will text or e-mail himself to keep his life in order. He is absolutely ependent. Between his laptop and iPhone everything he does is scheduled, planned or stored electronically. His answer to almost any task or question presented is "I have an app for that". He almost had a crisis last Friday when he forgot to schedule bathroom breaks. Luckily he still has a residual biological override.
Etymology: e (denoting anything in an electronic state, esp. the use of electronic data transfer in cyberspace) + dependent (unable to do without)
Syndrotechnophilin
Created by: someperson101
Pronunciation: sɪndrotɛknofɪlən
Sentence: The syndrotechnophilin usually doesn't get out of bed, but it served by his/her phone (by ordering pizza) and will lay by the door and wait for pizza.
Etymology: syndrome + technophile
Devicecontrived
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: De-vice-con-trive-d
Sentence: Mary was into technology that Mary had forgotten how "devicecontrived" she was until,she had to pull up her name on her I-Phone to tell Gus!
Etymology: Device: An invention serving a particular purpose, especially a machine used to perform one or more relatively simple tasks. Contrived: forced, planned, laboured, strained, artificial, elaborate, unnatural, overdone
Idetentee
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: Eye Dee Ten Tee
Sentence: Paula thought it rather cute (if a little Jobsian) of her friends to refer her as an iDetentee. Being a touch dyslexic, she would often joke back that she was *not* having an iDetentee crisis. Unfortunately this meant she never realised that her friends were really calling her an ID10T.
Etymology: i (eye?): An Apple (i)nspired (i)nternet fad to begin the name of anything to do with technology with an (i). Detent: to arrest, detain. Detentee (neol): One who is detained. Idiot: One who crashes car whilst txt'ing on a cell/mobile/pda, for example.
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COMMENTS:
A multilayered verbotomy of true sophistication. Kudos!! - dochanne, 2009-05-06: 01:04:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you! And yes I can think without a keyboard, it's just that my mind wanders... ~ James
readerwriter - 2009-04-30: 08:13:00
OK...does anyone think it's weird when you think of the definition the day before it appears?
abrakadeborah - 2009-05-05: 01:24:00
Reader you must be a "Verbotopsychic"
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James