Verboticism: Idolspread
DEFINITION: v. To copy and share an idea, thing, or person because you think that it's so wonderful that everyone should have one. n. An open source clone.
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Plagiariffic
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: plag/are/if/ick
Sentence: Joe is plagiarific. As a salesman, he uses all of the latest and greatest ideas he "borrowed" from the business books on the 'Best Sellers List' and shares them with his clients to impress them.
Etymology: PLAGIARIFFIC - noun - from PLAGIARIZE (to take and use ideas, or passages from another's work)+ TERRIFIC (extremely good; wonderful)
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COMMENTS:
Welcome back, Stevenson0! - Nosila, 2009-11-24: 01:14:00
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Copyousness
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: copy/us/ness
Sentence: Sam was a legend for his copyousness proclivity. He built a fortress around his cubicle with his favourite photocopies.
Etymology: copiousness(ample) + copy + us
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COMMENTS:
Welcome back, Jabberwocky! - Nosila, 2009-11-24: 01:14:00
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Evangecloning
Created by: inkvision
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The early evangecloners wrote zines and compiled custom mix cassettes. Now, evangecloning is the habit of flickr pros, bloggers porting rss feed from BoingBoing, MySpace "musicians", YouTube uploaders and hollywood film copiers.
Etymology: Evangelize, cloning
Chainlitter
Created by: theCountess
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Edna was known for chainlittering, with her indiscriminate bulk forwarding of all trivial emails.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
nice - galwaywegian, 2009-11-23: 17:55:00
good one - Nosila, 2009-11-24: 01:13:00
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Oureka
Created by: verysimplegame
Pronunciation: Ow-ree-ka
Sentence: Overflowing with the joy of the moment, I ourekaed the email again and again, pausing only occasionally to babble incoherently.
Etymology: Our + Eureka
Coppreciate
Created by: iwasatripwire
Pronunciation: cop-pre-she-ate
Sentence: That song was so awesome I coppreciated it to everyone I know.
Etymology: copy + appreciate
Xerocks
Created by: pinwheel
Pronunciation: zee/rocks
Sentence: Susan was so pleased with the family photograph she had taken, she just had to xerocks it 158 times and send it as a Christmas card to everyone she knew!
Etymology: xerox (to photocopy) + rocks (slang for excellent)
Lamogrande
Created by: DavidShantz
Pronunciation: Lay-mo-gran-day
Sentence: This guy won't last a week, LamoGrande
Etymology: Lame (surf)+ Oh + Grande (Spanish) Meaning: ineffective and maladroit on a monumental scale
Narcissentmail
Created by: HubbMU
Pronunciation: nar-siss-sent-mail
Sentence: After slaving over his thesis, Fred engaged in a small degree of narcissentmail by spamming everyone in his address book with a copy.
Etymology: Narcissistic and "sent mail"
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COMMENTS:
Isn't that more like ham than spam? - jedijawa, 2007-05-08: 10:47:00
Good word! - Stevenson0, 2007-05-08: 21:04:00
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Shadowist
Created by: petersn1
Pronunciation: sha-doe-est
Sentence: I'm not a shadowist, I just thought of it right after you did.
Etymology:
