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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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Keyflawed
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Kee-flor-d
Sentence: Susan was a perfectionist so when the keyboard on her computer became marked by overuse, she insisted that the shop where she bought it from gave her a replacement due to it becoming keyflawed.
Etymology: Keyboard(a panal of keys for use with a computer) + Flawed(marked,become spoilt) = Keyflawed
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COMMENTS:
nice one - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-17: 11:55:00
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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)
Nervhole
Created by: looseball
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Look another nervhole.Somebody ger her a xanex,then she'll slow down.
Etymology:
Hardwarewear
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: hard-wair-wair
Sentence: Scranton's keyboard, mouse and mouse pad all bore excessive hardwarewear that included shiny mouse buttons, scuffed mouse pad, keys and space bar worn completely thru from excessive gaming and keyboarding.
Etymology: Blend of hardware and wear
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)
Clickslick
Created by: kabloozie
Pronunciation: klik slik
Sentence: I just bought this laptop, and already I've got an obvious clickslick on the fingerpad...hmmm, maybe I should get myself a wacom...
Etymology: click (the act of using a computer keypboard or mouse) slick: shiny and smooth
Erodiousbaldicus
Created by: lafillepirate
Pronunciation: Air-road-ee-us-bald-ih-cuss
Sentence: If he doesn't stop playing computer games, he's going to lose his mouse to erodiousbaldicus.
Etymology: Rumored to have been written on rock polishing kits.
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:
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.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James