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DEFINITION: n. A state of extreme agitation developed after extended periods of non-stop video game participation; commonly affects males of all ages! v. To twist yourself up into a knot while playing video games.
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Arcadymalady
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: Are-cade-ie-mal-aid-ie
Sentence: "Yes, that's right (arrow) Your Honour, I'm pleading not guilty on account of the acute bout of arcadyMalady that came over me all of a sudden like, before I went '*BANG*' right arrow, right arrow, x button, y button...KILLEDA....you know?"
Etymology: Splicing of Arcade (Place of worship for gamers) and Malady (generally to feel poorly, usually for an extented period as in mourning or in winter blues/greys)
Quitrage
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.
Ngagerage
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His nervous system was so electrified by the intensity of 'Creatures of the Deep' that her nagging caused extreme ngagerage.
Etymology: road rage + N-GAGE
Gamertizzy
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: gay-mer-tizz-ee
Sentence: She knew he was in a gamertizzy when he started putting a noose around his neck.
Etymology: gamer (slang for video game addict) + tizzy (excited, in a dither or flap)
Hyperwiiality
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)
Nintendone
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.
Inconsoleable
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ink on sow lab ell
Sentence: without his games console he was inconsoleable
Etymology: console inconsolable
Vidiosyncrasies
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: vidēəsingkrəsē
Sentence: Jill hates holiday weekends. After a three-day binge on the Xbox her husband exhibits his most obnoxious vidiosyncrasies, bouncing off the walls, pretending to shoot, stab or blow her up. It’s all she can do to get him in his suit and off to work. It scares her sometimes knowing that he is the CEO at a nuclear power plant.
Etymology: video (games) (a game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a television screen or other display screen) + idiosyncrasies (a mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual)
Joystickness
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: joi - stik - ness
Sentence: Andre was developing a condition called joystickness; resulting from too many houurs of playing video games. Tightly clenching his input device, he began to shout threats at anyone who tried to interrupt his play. He had lost touch with reality and was becoming psychotic.
Etymology: joystick, sickness
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COMMENTS:
Perfect word for the definition! - splendiction, 2009-07-27: 16:05:00
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Comments:
splendiction - 2009-07-27: 20:51:00
vidiot - hilarious! Good word!
splendiction - 2009-07-27: 20:52:00
Oopp, that last comment was meant for artr's word.