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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
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Fingerbald
Created by: ooogle
Pronunciation: Fing-ger-ball-d
Sentence: Can I get that fingerbald repainted too?
Etymology: n. Finger-Things on the end of your hands Bald-No hair Fingerbald-The shiny spot on the middle of the mousepad when you have been scrolling too much.
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
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COMMENTS:
Love it! - TJayzz, 2008-10-17: 06:41:00
Very nice - OZZIEBOB, 2008-10-19: 00:34:00
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Pointopecia
Created by: nerdkiller
Pronunciation: point-o-pee-zia
Sentence: Sam scrolled through the entire Boingboing archive until his pointer had mouse pattern pointopecia.
Etymology: alopecia (baldness, pointer (pointing device)
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)
Hardwear
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: hard-wayr
Sentence: Simon's friends referred to his keyboard, mouse and mousepad as his hardwear because of the excessive wear shown on them by his overly rough use.
Etymology: Blend of 'hard' and 'wear', a play on the word 'hardware'.
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.
Etymology: mouse + tear (rip) + mouseketeer
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COMMENTS:
Very clever! Perhaps you need a cybercat! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-20: 16:41:00
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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
Fingerwax
Created by: jkernen1
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The keyboard appeared old and a thin layer of fingerwax had been applied.
Etymology: finger + wax
Compubuff
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: kuhm-pyoo-buhf
Sentence: She compubuffed her keyboard so bright and shiny that she could almost she her reflection in each key.
Etymology: computer + buff (as in shine)
Clickitydip
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: kli-kit-ee-dip
Sentence: My son's mouse has already developed a clickitydip - he's either been wearing sandpaper gloves or playing Warcraft way too much.
Etymology: click it, dip
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COMMENTS:
clickitydip barbatrick - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-20: 14:18:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James