Verboticisms

Created by: sarabeth20

Pronunciation: com-pulse-i-press

Sentence: Did he really have to compulsipress the button I just pushed?

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: push - sent - trik

Sentence: Lolita was so pushcentric that she just went nuts if anyone else pushed the buttons. In the elevator, if someone else got there first, she pushed it too. It became complicated if she was playing a game where someone had to hit a timer button. When she was at her mom's house for dinner and mom hit the oven timer, Lolita pushed it too. She ended up in Therapy and diagnosed as a buttonphrenic with a hint of repressed anger...

Etymology: egocentric (selfcentered, push, centric (centered on)

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Created by: collinwashere2

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Sentence: Did you just repushify my button?

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Created by: willster

Pronunciation: re-o-pus

Sentence: It was intusive how reopus the woman was with everything she saw.

Etymology: re+or+push

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Created by: Angie

Pronunciation: re-presh-un

Sentence: Though the "up" button glowed with a faint light indicating that someone had already summoned the elevator, Clara felt compelled to press it again--just in case.

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Created by: hobodad

Pronunciation: pushosis

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Etymology: push + psychosis

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Created by: nuemj88

Pronunciation: plar-jit-ik

Sentence: That is MY plargitic button.

Etymology: Plarg - taken from plagiarize. Because you copy them when you push the button.

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: mon-ob-main-ee-ah

Sentence: Jeff was so self absorbed he just didn't notice the three other people standing at the pedestrian crossing. This refusal to snap out of his tunnel vision and engage with the city in which he lived meant he was a total monobmaniac: see a knob and press it. His brother, on the other hand, suffered from compullsion - he couldn't stop himself opening doors for people.

Etymology: monomania (an obsessive interest in a single thing) + maniac (an overly enthusiastic person) + knob (a round projection on a surface & offensive slang term for an idiot)

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Created by: playdohheart

Pronunciation: eck-ses-a-press

Sentence: He must be re-presssive compulsive, because he excessapressed the door close button right after he saw me do it.

Etymology: Excess + press

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COMMENTS:

He had OCDbutton. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-10: 10:16:00

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Created by: Niktionary

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