Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: n., A wear mark, or shiny spot, which appears on a heavily used computer touch-pad, mouse or keyboard. v., To wear down or erode through repetitive clicking, tapping or poking.
Verboticisms
Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...
You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.
Eteriorate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ee teer eeo rayt
Sentence: June's computer mouse was so worn it was in the terminal stages of eteriorate. She thumped on it so often everyday that it was in a permanent stage of AOLopecia.
Etymology: deteriorate (to fade away or worsen) & e-terior (electronic exterior) & ate (eaten away)
Hardwarewear
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Hard + ware + ware
Sentence: Merril's heavy handed use of his keyboard and mouse created an abundance of hardwarewear, leaving worn spots on the mouse buttons and many of the keyboard keys blank.
Etymology: Hardware and wear
Erodentia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: e rode dent sha
Sentence: When Gabby used her computer sll day long, year in, year out, it showed definite signs of erodentia. The poor mouse finally squeaked,croaked and died.
Etymology: e=electronic; Erode (wear away) and Rodentia (small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis)
Abrashine
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: uh-BREY-shahyn
Sentence: Bob lived in canescrapent, click-button cyberia with mice that abrashined, remote controls with repitritus and gnawhite-spotted screens.
Etymology: Abrashine:abrasion:scraped spot or area & shine 2.Repitritus (repitition & detritus) 3. Gnawhite:(gnaw: eat away & white) 4. Cyberia:from "Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace" by Doug Rushkoff. 5.Canescrapent:greyish white & scrape.
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
poor Bob, what a grind - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-20: 14:17:00
----------------------------
Typblation
Created by: zxvasdf
Pronunciation: Typ b la tion
Sentence: Visitors to his apartment always became astounded to find ancient keyboards and mouse devices covered with advanced typblation. "Yer sure pushing the mileage with that hardware!"
Etymology: Type (to press keys) & ablation (erosion from repetitive contact)
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Veru apropos! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-17: 10:37:00
terrific! - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-17: 11:59:00
----------------------------
Mouseketear
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: mouse/keh/tare
Sentence: Sally was so busy scrolling through ebay that she didn't notice that the mousekewear had swiftly become a mouseketear. Now she'd have to go back to WaltMart to pick up another one.
Etymology: mouse + tear (rip) + mouseketeer
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Love it! - TJayzz, 2008-10-17: 06:41:00
Very nice - OZZIEBOB, 2008-10-19: 00:34:00
----------------------------
Geekpolish
Created by: bzav1
Pronunciation: geek + polish
Sentence: Judging by the geekpolish on Jimmy's laptop, he had been spending a bit too much time on Facebook.
Etymology: Not to be confused with my Eastern European roots (geek Polish)
Hypermouseration
Created by: mvandyke
Pronunciation: hyper-mouse-er-ation
Sentence: One could easily see the tell tale signs of 'hypermouseration' in Kathies work station.
Etymology:
Crapdoo
Created by: jeremy21
Pronunciation: /crap-doo/
Sentence: That dude crapdooed on the wrong person. Crapdooing is not the way to go
Etymology: Old american- coming from some old english
Mousopecia
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: mous-uh-pee-shee-uh
Sentence: Jim has spent most of his career in front of a computer and it shows. His glasses are stronger and his bottom wider. The shiny spot, the mousopecia that is now a part of his computer mouse is almost as smooth as the shiny spot that gleams through his thinning hair. It's good that he is a touch typist seeing that most of the letters printed on his keyboard are almost nonexistent due to tactile erosion.
Etymology: Mouse (a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen) + alopecia (loss of hair; baldness)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James