Verboticisms

Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: ē-gŏp'rĕs

Sentence: It was clear that I'd hit the 'up button' for the elevator as it was indicated by the light. But when the man in the suit approached he gave it a firm egopress and shot me a knowing and condescending smile insinuating that it wouldn't have worked if he hadn't come and saved me from my un-elevated limbo.

Etymology: ego + press

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Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: red button syndrome

Sentence: simply your words ;) every human has the redbuttonsyndrome - best documented in ren & stimpy "space madness" ... where stimpy has to guard a red button but doesn't know why and what the button does... so he starts thinking about it... until he can't resist anymore... . monkey see, monkey do. simple - everybody wants to push the button.

Etymology: red + button + syndrome = redbuttonsyndrome

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /əbˈspɹɛs/

Sentence: The tendency to obspress is one of those annoying habits that fills me with reflustration.

Etymology: from obsess + press

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COMMENTS:

I just realized that I should have just submitted "repush" - ErWenn, 2007-04-11: 10:50:00

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Created by: nickolucas

Pronunciation: in-do-action-ary

Sentence: HEs such an indoactioanry that he has to push ever one of his buttons.

Etymology:

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Created by: nuemj88

Pronunciation: plar-jit-ik

Sentence: That is MY plargitic button.

Etymology: Plarg - taken from plagiarize. Because you copy them when you push the button.

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: PUNCH-uh-gin

Sentence: At work, Delbert had earned the nickname 'Punchagain' for his habit of repressing buttons in the elevator even after his coworkers had already done so.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'punch' and 'again'

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: mun kiss em

Sentence: monkism overtook Ray in the lift like a rage, he couldn't let anyone else press all the buttons.

Etymology: have you ever seen monk? he needs to touch EVERYTHING but stay clean.

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: nehks-PREHS

Sentence: Alex nexpressed elevator buttons just like a three-year-old.

Etymology: next + press + express (oneself)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: re press gall eree

Sentence: Simon's repressgallery button on his phone was working overtime...I mean if you pushed again, would something magically appear? Well, only if you are in a theatre or other place where contact was awkward! Right?

Etymology: repress: (put out of one's consciousness or to press again) & Press Gallery (an area (sometimes in a balcony) set aside for reporters (especially in a legislative hall)

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Created by: Pandora

Pronunciation: anal-push

Sentence: Although the crosswalk button was already lit, Jane noticed that the next man who arrived at the corner analpushed the button anyway.

Etymology: anal (obsessive) + push

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