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DEFINITION: A state of hyper-attentive focus combined with WBT (Whole Body Twitching) and IEE (Ignores Everything Else), which commonly afflicts video game players.

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Pixelepsy

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: piks-uhl-ep-see

Sentence: He didn't smell the pot roast, nor hear his mother calling him for dinner - David was obviously on the computer suffering from a bout of pixelepsy.

Etymology: pixel, epilepsy

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COMMENTS:

I like it. It particularly conveys the Whole Body Twitching which I completely failed to incorporate into my own word. - Nettle, 2007-09-13: 10:08:00

Great word! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-13: 16:38:00

Suddenly I become pixi-led. Nice word - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-13: 20:08:00

Me likey. Funny, descriptive, sounds real.Goes with the graphic quite nicely as well. - ScrabbledEgg, 2007-09-14: 23:51:00

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Twiiking

Created by: torpid

Pronunciation: tweeking

Sentence: After buzzing Billy's apartment five times, the pizza deliveryman returned home, not realizing that Billy was there, but twiiking, and thus unable to hear the doorbell.

Etymology: tweak/tweaking (meth and other drug user's hyperactivity) + wii

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Pacmannerism

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: pack-MANner-ism

Sentence: Colby's pacmannerism had worsened considerably since the 1980s. It had evolved into captaincomicalysis, but it seemed he always had a frogger in his throat.

Etymology: Pacman + mannerism

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COMMENTS:

I'm old enough to remember Pacman but I had to look up what Wii was! lol - Scrumpy, 2007-09-13: 07:53:00

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Comathroes

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: ko-ma-THROWS

Sentence: When Roxie went into spazombic hyper-attentive focusing whilst creating a verboticism, Bob was worried that her condition might turn into svitustrance. Friends thought that she might be marcelvish. But, as her comathroes continued unabated, all agreed that some sort of cerebrawl was going on in her mind.

Etymology: Coma: profound insensibilty, stupor & throes:spasm, convulsion.(with the "math" needed for hyper-attentive focusing.) Svitustrance- pun on St Vitus Dance. Marcelvish: uniname that combines elements of Marcel(Marceau) & Elvis.

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COMMENTS:

so many good words!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-13: 11:59:00

Great sentence and etymology! Really unique word! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-13: 21:04:00

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Fraystation

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: fray/stay/shun

Sentence: The squeels and the jumping meant that he had entered the dangerous zone of fraystation

Etymology: fray (frazzle) + station (sphere) + playstation

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COMMENTS:

Has a great ring to it! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-13: 07:14:00

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Gadgetation

Created by: Scrumpy

Pronunciation: gaj-it-a-shun

Sentence: After 12 hours of Quake, John's whole body vibrated with advanced gadgetation.

Etymology: gadget + agitation

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COMMENTS:

excellent! - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-13: 11:56:00

I'm not certain why - but I'm locked in. Top word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-13: 20:16:00

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Autogamenchorea

Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: au-to-gam-en-KOR-ee-ah

Sentence: Mike's autogamenchorea prevented him from hearing the timer on the pot stickers that were cooking on the stove and soon the apartment was filled with smoke.

Etymology: auto-(Greek: self, same, spontaneous; directed from within. Used as in autism). gamen (Old English: root of Game) -chorea (Greek: dance; in medicine, it is used to denote a nervous disorder)

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