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DEFINITION: v. To push a push-button that has just been pushed by someone else because you "need" to push it yourself; common at elevators, traffic lights, and family meetings. n. A person who "needs" to push their own buttons.
Verboticisms
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Reopus
Created by: willster
Pronunciation: re-o-pus
Sentence: It was intusive how reopus the woman was with everything she saw.
Etymology: re+or+push
Replidigify
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: rep lid idge iff eye
Sentence: seamus alway replifidigified, to be sure to be sure.
Etymology: replicate, digit
Buttonenvy
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: but-ton-en-vee
Sentence: Krista's buttonenvy required that she push any button herself no matter if it had been pushed by someone else.
Etymology: Sometimes a button is just a button ... and sometimes not.
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COMMENTS:
HA! Good one! - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-10: 08:19:00
Not a verb, should be 2 words, but worthy enough of a vote anyway. - ErWenn, 2007-04-11: 10:48:00
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Pushcentric
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)
Pressdulge
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: press-dulge
Sentence: Jim's pressdulgence appeared harmless enough but in reality it was a symptom of his control freak behaviour.
Etymology: press + indulge
Redbuttonsyndrome
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: red button syndrome
Sentence: simply your words ;) every human has the redbuttonsyndrome - best documented in ren & stimpy "space madness" ... where stimpy has to guard a red button but doesn't know why and what the button does... so he starts thinking about it... until he can't resist anymore... . monkey see, monkey do. simple - everybody wants to push the button.
Etymology: red + button + syndrome = redbuttonsyndrome
Overprodtective
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: oh/vur/prod/tek/tiv
Sentence: Jim was so overprodtective of the elevator buttons that he felt an overwhelming need to re-press every touched button. His friends referred to him as a buttonhole.
Etymology: overprotective + prod (press)
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COMMENTS:
Very good - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-20: 05:55:00
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Superflupress
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: sue-purr-flu-press
Sentence: Gordon was such a controlpanelfreak that he was always superflupressing in the vain thought that he could override everyone else's intentions.
Etymology: superfluous (surplus to demand) + press
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COMMENTS:
Now if we can just have a definition about news coverage of a pandemic of respiratory disease - this can do double duty. - petaj, 2007-04-10: 07:21:00
love this word - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-10: 14:20:00
That really works! - jedijawa, 2007-04-11: 00:47:00
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Monkism
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: mun kiss em
Sentence: monkism overtook Ray in the lift like a rage, he couldn't let anyone else press all the buttons.
Etymology: have you ever seen monk? he needs to touch EVERYTHING but stay clean.
Chimpressario
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: chim-press-AIR-ee-oh
Sentence: I hate being next to Dawkins at the elevator. He is such a chimpressario! Monkey see, monkey do.
Etymology: chimp, impressario
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic.
Thank you Osomatic! ~ James
Mustang - 2008-06-19: 08:28:00
Being compushive isnt easy. It takes lots of energy and ingenuity.
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic. Thank you Osomatic. ~ James