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DEFINITION: v. To push a push-button that has just been pushed by someone else because you "need" to push it yourself; common at elevators, traffic lights, and family meetings. n. A person who "needs" to push their own buttons.
Verboticisms
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Prodominate
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: PROD+dOMINATE
Sentence: We kept at it, each having to be the last one to push, cycling faster and faster in a mad frenzy for prodomination, not really wanting it to end as we responded to each other almost in synch, until finally we both just stood there looking at each other, exhausted, far past the time the elevator reached our floor -- I think I am in love.
Etymology: PROD+dOMINATE
Pushcentric
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: push - sent - trik
Sentence: Lolita was so pushcentric that she just went nuts if anyone else pushed the buttons. In the elevator, if someone else got there first, she pushed it too. It became complicated if she was playing a game where someone had to hit a timer button. When she was at her mom's house for dinner and mom hit the oven timer, Lolita pushed it too. She ended up in Therapy and diagnosed as a buttonphrenic with a hint of repressed anger...
Etymology: egocentric (selfcentered, push, centric (centered on)
Impatientitis
Created by: Tanik
Pronunciation: im-paa-shunt-eyetis
Sentence: Tony's impatientitis made it impossible for him to just wait. He had to push the button over and over.
Etymology: impatien (can't wait) and itis (disease)
Pressoccupied
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: presäkyəpīd
Sentence: Ever since she was little Tracy has been pressoccupied. Whenever she was in an elevator she wanted to be the one to press the button. Crossing a downtown street? **ME PUSH, ME PUSH!** It was so bad that she was banned from participating in the Take Your Child to Work program at the missle silo where her father works.
Etymology: press (move or cause to move into a position of contact with something by exerting continuous physical force) + preoccupation (a subject or matter that engrosses someone)
Indoactionary
Created by: nickolucas
Pronunciation: in-do-action-ary
Sentence: HEs such an indoactioanry that he has to push ever one of his buttons.
Etymology:
Repushify
Created by: collinwashere2
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Did you just repushify my button?
Etymology:
Compulsipress
Created by: sarabeth20
Pronunciation: com-pulse-i-press
Sentence: Did he really have to compulsipress the button I just pushed?
Etymology:
Pushkinitis
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: push/kin/i/tis
Sentence: The group originally met to read Pushkin poetry but soon pushkinitis ensued and the confused members began pushing around their families (kin)
Etymology: pushkin ( Russian poet) + itis
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COMMENTS:
I hate it at poetry readings when pushy people show up. - Stevenson0, 2007-04-10: 09:38:00
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Pressdulge
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: press-dulge
Sentence: Jim's pressdulgence appeared harmless enough but in reality it was a symptom of his control freak behaviour.
Etymology: press + indulge
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic.
Thank you Osomatic! ~ James
Mustang - 2008-06-19: 08:28:00
Being compushive isnt easy. It takes lots of energy and ingenuity.
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic. Thank you Osomatic. ~ James