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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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Glisdip
Created by: Poetikat
Pronunciation: gliss dip
Sentence: Over time the little ball under her mouse formed an irrevocable glisdip.
Etymology: glis - from glisten dip - indentation
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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Digilution
Created by: all4word
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The device has clear signs of digilution.
Etymology: digit and devolution or dilution
Keyrosion
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: key-ro-shun
Sentence: Maxine was shiftwrecked due to keyrosion. Her computer was spacebarred and pitted, her mousepooped from exhaustion and she was becoming debilitated from numberless keystrokes. She was all keyed up about it when it clicked in her mind that she was simply board with her life. She worried that she had become typecast, spending every day wading in the typingpool for her shift to come in. Maxine realized at that moment that she had spent too much time backspacing away from her dreams of adventure and romance, so she decided to correct the error. She used her trusty keyboard one last time to type up her letter of resignation and booked herself on the next cruise to the islands.
Etymology: key: lever that operated a mechanism when depress as in the keys of a keyboard + erosion: wearing away or pitting caused by natural processes such as abrasion, grinding or chemical means or overuse
Keyrode
Created by: Buzzardbilly
Pronunciation: key rode
Sentence: When I looked down to hunt and peck my name into the system, I couldn't tell what I was doing because the letters had been keyroded away. -or- It was obvious the computer had seen heavy use because half of the keyboard and both mouse buttons suffered heavy keyrosion.
Etymology: key (from keyboard keys) + rode (from corrode (to wear away through contact over time with chemicals, oils, etc...in the case of keyrosion the oils and ridges of our skin working together to keyrode the plastic finish.
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COMMENTS:
Great word: great debut! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-20: 16:39:00
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Boursoflypord
Created by: garythesnail
Pronunciation: bor-SO-FLY-POORD
Sentence: Felix had many boursoflypords on his keyboard.
Etymology: french 'boursouflure' for blister, + type + keyboard
Shinetalic
Created by: sipsoccer
Pronunciation: (shine-tal-lic)
Sentence: I see your mouse has a shinetalic spot on it from major usage.
Etymology: shine-bright,glows,shiny talic-part of metallic, which also means shiny.
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)
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COMMENTS:
Veru apropos! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-17: 10:37:00
terrific! - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-17: 11:59:00
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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)
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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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James