Verboticism: Eieio

'That's cool technology! It's my deodorant.'

DEFINITION: v. To obsess over, and fantasize about electronic gadgets even though you can never figure out how they actually work. n. A beautiful but useless gadget.

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Eieio

Created by: shutz

Pronunciation: e-i-e-i-o, as in "Old McDonald had a farm"

Sentence: He kept buying eieios, and was running out of room to keep the useless but sexy gadgets.

Etymology: Comes from the recent marketing trend of adding e- and i- previxes to otherwise ordinary names to make them hip, current and modern. Also, the "io" part vaguely relates to "input/output", which is intrinsic aspect of all electronic devices, and can also

Points: 641

Comments: Eieio

purpleartichokes - 2007-06-04: 13:28:00
eieiooooo or eieioh would work as well!

Stevenson0 - 2007-06-05: 21:43:00
You got my vote for originality and creativeness!