{"id":1155,"date":"2011-03-07T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2011-03-07T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T17:00:10","slug":"gamerage-thats-my-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"Gamerage: That&#8217;s my word!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To engage in an emotional debate over the small, yet somehow surprisingly important details in a simple game. <em>n.<\/em> An emotional game player<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/squabble.gif\" alt=\"That's my word!\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gamerage<\/strong>:  \/<em>g\u00c4\u0081m\u00c9\u2122r\u00c4\u0081j<\/em>\/ John is a very mellow guy. Bumper-to-bumper traffic? No problem. Long lines at the grocery? Not an issue. Somebody already submitted the word he devised for Verbotomy? Gamerage!  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  gamer (a person who plays a game or games, typically a participant in a computer or role-playing game) + rage (violent, uncontrollable anger) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contesty<\/strong>:  \/<em>con-test-ee<\/em>\/ Jez was a REALLY competitive player. If he sensed his opponent wasn&#8217;t paying sufficient attention he would get all contesty and yell, &#8220;This is NOT just a GAME!&#8221; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  contest (a formal game in which two or more players compete and attempt to win) + testy (irritably impatient, touchy) <em>Created by:<\/em> CharlieB.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ludocrous<\/strong>:  \/<em>loo doh krus<\/em>\/ People in the ping pong world were getting tired of his ludocrous behaviour as he screamed &#8220;You can not be serious!&#8221; everytime he missed the table. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  ludicrous ludo <em>Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trivanal<\/strong>:  \/<em>Triv-eyn-l<\/em>\/ Family game night never seemed to bring the group closer together due to little Juan&#8217;s trivanal need to overanalyze every minor detail of the game. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Trivial &#8211; Anal<\/p>\n<p>Why do I emphathise with this definition&#8230;. <em>Created by:<\/em> Mrgoodtimes.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=squabble\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=squabble<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: v. To engage in an emotional debate over the small, yet somehow surprisingly important details in a simple game. n. An emotional game player VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Gamerage: \/g\u00c4\u0081m\u00c9\u2122r\u00c4\u0081j\/ John is a very mellow guy. Bumper-to-bumper traffic? No problem. Long lines at the grocery? Not an issue. Somebody already &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1155\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gamerage: That&#8217;s my word!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}