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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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Mousemousseurgeum
Created by: randomizer
Pronunciation: mows-moos-ur-gee-uhm
Sentence: I've been using the wrong mouse and now it has mousemousseurgeum!
Etymology: mouse-mousse-urge-eum
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COMMENTS:
Clever and 100% unique! - randomizer, 2008-10-18: 00:09:00
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Alopadcia
Created by: vmalcolm
Pronunciation: /al-uh-pad-shee-uh/
Sentence: "Does your owner tap on you like a beast? are you losing your hair and colour? Do no wait anymore! STOP IT NOW!!! By using our brand new product called Aminexpad!!! Try it out, or you'll be out!
Etymology: ALOPADCIA. From Alopecia (loss of hair; baldness) + Pad
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COMMENTS:
very funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-17: 11:53:00
Zounds! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-17: 12:22:00
Hair-iffic! - Nosila, 2008-10-17: 22:25:00
clever - OZZIEBOB, 2008-10-19: 00:33:00
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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
Nervhole
Created by: looseball
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Look another nervhole.Somebody ger her a xanex,then she'll slow down.
Etymology:
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)
Nakey
Created by: giIIyp
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Which key is that? N? M? I never know, they are both so nakey.
Etymology: I do not know why, but I wear out the N and M keys - my naked keys.
Blindism
Created by: squid
Pronunciation: blind is um
Sentence: the lady suffers from blindism because she thought the real mouse was a computer mouse.
Etymology: blind- cannot see ism- the obvious
Digilution
Created by: all4word
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The device has clear signs of digilution.
Etymology: digit and devolution or dilution
Clickeroded
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: klĭk-ə-rō'-dĭd
Sentence: Like that spot on my keyboard spacebar, and the spot on my mouse button where I always click it, the buttons on the remote control for Uncle Bill's old TV were were noticeably clickeroded.
Etymology: clicker (Slang term for a remote control, or controlling device) + eroded (Latin, érōdere - "worn away by abrasion")
Keypetitive
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: kee/pet/i/tiv
Sentence: Because she didn't own a joystick, the letters 's' and 'l' disappeared from her keyboard because of the constant keypetitive tapping, clicking and pushing required by the computer game.
Etymology: KEYPETITIVE - from KEY (keyboard) + REPETITIVE (repeated over and over)
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COMMENTS:
wow. i remember joysticks. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-17: 12:18:00
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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