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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
Compulsipress
Created by: sarabeth20
Pronunciation: com-pulse-i-press
Sentence: Did he really have to compulsipress the button I just pushed?
Etymology:
Autodepressant
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: aw toe dehp ress ant
Sentence: the autodepressant could feel her self coming down again
Etymology: auto depressant
Remash
Created by: LonePaladin
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As soon as he entered the elevator, he felt compelled to remash the button for his floor, even though it was already lit.
Etymology:
Represshion
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.
Etymology:
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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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)
Replidigify
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: rep lid idge iff eye
Sentence: seamus alway replifidigified, to be sure to be sure.
Etymology: replicate, digit
Impatientitis
Created by: Tanik
Pronunciation: im-paa-shunt-eyetis
Sentence: Tony's impatientitis made it impossible for him to just wait. He had to push the button over and over.
Etymology: impatien (can't wait) and itis (disease)
Repressgallery
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: re press gall eree
Sentence: Simon's repressgallery button on his phone was working overtime...I mean if you pushed again, would something magically appear? Well, only if you are in a theatre or other place where contact was awkward! Right?
Etymology: repress: (put out of one's consciousness or to press again) & Press Gallery (an area (sometimes in a balcony) set aside for reporters (especially in a legislative hall)
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