Verboticisms

Created by: ScrabbledEgg

Pronunciation: wee-tar-day-shun

Sentence: His video game addiction started off slowly with a mild case of nintendonitis, progressed to acute halotosis (hay-low-toe-sis), and ended in complete wiitardation.

Etymology: wii + retardation

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COMMENTS:

that's a winner - FreeToys, 2007-09-13: 13:20:00

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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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Created by: leomar

Pronunciation: watas-adik

Sentence: a word that shows a "state of hyper-attentive focus = ADIK" with the "IEE (Ignores Everything Else)= WATAS"

Etymology: the watas adik

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Created by: Janbo

Pronunciation:

Sentence: A number of men showed signs of videogameism.

Etymology:

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Created by: japfilsk8er

Pronunciation: gamer not

Sentence: keeps his momentum going and stay focus to the game

Etymology: game and juggernaut

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: wee/ig/gle

Sentence: He transforms completely and falls into the state of wiiggle when he plays his video games.

Etymology: wii + wiggle

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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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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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Created by: trioptimum

Pronunciation: ob-WEE-vee-uhs-ness

Sentence: Wil had to be jolted out of his obwiiviousness by a friend, who grabbed him and politely pointed out the piercing sound of the fire alarm.

Etymology: obliviousness + wii (I hate every single one of the thousands of 'wii' puns that have plagued the games industry for the past few months, so please make me pay for my hypocrisy by not voting for me)

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COMMENTS:

I had to look up what Wii was. So your Wii-ism seems pretty fresh to me! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-13: 07:59:00

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Created by: Pseudonym

Pronunciation: ex-bock-u-pay-shun

Sentence: "Sorry about the accident; I forgot to go during my xboccupation."

Etymology: xbox + occupation

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