Verboticisms

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: hyp-er-wee-al-i-ty

Sentence: Mrs. Fudd found Elmer in a state of hyperwiiality when she returned from a visit to her parents and saw that he had been playing video games since she left and had not stopped to eat or sleep. "At least I don't have to do the dishes," she thought as she pulled the plug.

Etymology: hyperreality: blurring the lines of reality and fantasy as in video gaming or online virtual reality. Hyperreality tricks the consciousness into accepting artificially contrived stimulation instead a conscious emotional involvement + Wii: a video game system (Elmer Fudd -- a Looney Tunes cartoon character who couldn't pronounce the letter r in words and substituted the letter w instead)

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Created by: Composite

Pronunciation: [kuɪtɹeɪʤ]

Sentence: Jack had been binging on Call of Duty for hours. He had quitraged when his girlfriend wanted to go out to the park instead. He still is ready to unleash his quitrage on anyone else should they interrupt him.

Etymology: Formed on a similar line to ragequit.

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Created by: labareda

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ink on sow lab ell

Sentence: without his games console he was inconsoleable

Etymology: console inconsolable

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Created by: timmy

Pronunciation: violent gamer.

Sentence: Ahhhh! A violentgamer.

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: frust ro gaming

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Etymology: its the argh and the urgh and the gargh!

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Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: nin ten done

Sentence: Seven hours of gaming left them nintendone. After a short break they'd get over to Blake's basement where four more hours at the controllers would leave them xbaked.

Etymology: From nintendo and done.

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Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: si-ber-spaz-im

Sentence: See how Doug has a cyberspasm because he played Moon Patrol so long that he is now cramped up into a ball.

Etymology: cyber + spasm

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: stoo-puh-wahy-fahy

Sentence: Some would blame the coffee, some the lack of sleep but 18 hours of computer combat left Darrell completely stupewified.

Etymology: stupefied (stunned, shocked) wifi (Wi-Fi is a popular technology that allows an electronic device to exchange data wirelessly (using radio waves) over a computer network)

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Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: ex-box-ick

Sentence: After his wife pulled the plug on his xbox, Marty went into a state of xboxic shock. Fortunately, she knew that it was the game talking, not him...

Etymology: exbox + toxic

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