Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: n. A person who is so enamored with their online identity that they believe that it is more real than their physical one. v. To suddenly realize that you are large, blubbery mammal with no useful superpowers.
Verboticisms
Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...
You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.
Flabatar
Created by: dekra
Pronunciation: Flab-uh-tar
Sentence: After a grueling 12 hour session of WOW followed by an intense round of COD, John was amzed to find that neither his svelte Wood Elf or his jacked Marine were staring him back in the mirror. Instead it was only his flabatar, a real life version of his online personality. Hours of online taunting of 12 year old's did not grant John the rock-solid abs of his avatars.
Etymology: Flabby (Fat) + Avatar (Online version of one's self)
Immortified
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: ihm-mohr-tih-feyed
Sentence: Siggie's Id had always claimed he was immortal. His Superego told him if he ate his veggies, was a good boy, watched out for fast cars and bad women he might not die too young. But, looking in the mirror that day, his deflated Ego was immortified as he realized his real identity could no longer bounce between the other two. He was becoming self-fractualized!
Etymology: Blending IMMORTAL, meaning exempt from death + MORTIFIED (from the Latin/French MORT, meaning death), meaning humiliated. References are playing with Freud's theories of personality development and Maslow's self-actualization. (What do I know???)
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
nice - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-15: 10:28:00
----------------------------
Avatarnation
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: avah-TAR-nay-shun
Sentence: Mark's job with the show "To catch a predator" required him to spend a great deal of time online posing as a naive 13 year old girl. He didn't see this as a problem until he came to the realization in a fit of avatarnation that his mind was slowly starting to think like that of a 13 year old girl. His wife was even starting to become a bit concerned when he hung up posters of Justin Timberlake in their bedroom. Avatarnation!!
Etymology: Avatar -a little picture representing an online user Tarnation - a colloquial euphemish in the South Eastern US for Damnation often expressed as "What in tarnation?!"
Disillusioneter
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: dis·il·lu·sion-net-er
Sentence: Bob Blobber's computer burned out and he had to go and get ready to shop for another one. As he peered into the mirror he realized that he had turned into a disillusioneter and was shocked to see he had lost all his hair and his super powers had vanished.
Etymology: Disillusioned~ Disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than one had believed. Neter: Taken in part from the word inter"net" added "er" to show one who practically lives on the internet.
Virtuamnesial
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: vir-tu-am-knee-ze-yal
Sentence: Vince spent so much time in his Second Life that he was virtuamnesial. After a good look in the mirror one morning, he realized to his horror that he was still in his first life and that he had forgotten to go to work and pay his rent. Homeless and penniless, he took his laptop to Starbucks and returned to his virtual kingdom that didn't suck.
Etymology: Virtual: 1) existing in essence or effect, but not appearance or form, 2) being actually such in almost every respect--such as a virtual wreck 3) a computer generated simulation + amnesia: a partial or total loss of memory, usually resulting from a shock, psycological disturbance or brain injury. "Second Life" -- a virtual world that people can create where they can live vicariously as the person they wish they really would be.
Hyperspacecadet
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: hahy-per-speys-kuh-det
Sentence: Tim works hard and lovingly at creating his online presence. Somehow, no matter what he does, some part of his real self sneaks through and he ends up with a hyperspacecadet.
Etymology: hyperspace (computer network) space cadet (absent minded)
Cyberlusional
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: si ber lu sjin al
Sentence: Since playing WoW, Doug has covered up all the mirrors in his house. He is so cyberlusional
Etymology: cyber + delusion
Whoevertar
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: whoo ever tar
Sentence: Wally the beached human whale thought he really looked like the whoevertar of a sleek super hero he carried around on his communications device. His phasers were always on stunning.
Etymology: Whoever (someone or anyone who does a particular thing or is in a particular situation) & Avatar (a new personification of a familiar idea;
Avatarlusional
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: av-ah-tah-loo-zyah-nool
Sentence: he'd been staring at his fake profile pic for so long he had become avatarlusional
Etymology: avatar, delusional
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by abrakadeborah Thank you abrakadeborah~ James
abrakadeborah - 2009-05-15: 00:53:00
You're most welcome James ~ Funny cartoon :) LOL!
dochanne - 2009-05-15: 04:22:00
We need a word for this phenomenon, it's getting more common.
After a full winter of verbotomizing, I looked in the mirror and... Thank you! ~ James
dochanne - 2009-05-18: 03:22:00
Lost your majik sword James?
I didn't lose it, I'm still holding it. I just can't see it... James?
Today's definition was suggested by abrakadeborah. Thank you abrakadeborah. ~ James
abrakadeborah - 2010-11-28: 11:05:00
Thanks James ~ I really enjoy this site. :) Happy Holidays~