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DEFINITION: v. To copy and share an idea, thing, or person because you think that it's so wonderful that everyone should have one. n. An open source clone.
Verboticisms
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Ubiquitate
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: yoo-BIK-wi-teyt
Sentence: Colin endeavored to ubiquitate his sister's comeback, fearing that it might slip into obscurity.
Etymology: Portmanteau: ubiquitous + imitate
Copytat
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: käpētat
Sentence: Wendell loves his music. With his copytats he thinks he looks just like his favorite artist. His friends haven’t been fooled yet. To even come close he would have to drop about 50 pounds, reverse the aging process by 30 years and alter his race.
Etymology: copycat (a person who copies another\'s behavior, dress, or ideas) + tattoo (mark a person or a part of the body with an indelible design by inserting pigment into punctures in the skin)
Overdostrescuatro
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: oh/vur/dohs/trez/quatro
Sentence: Be careful about how much you imitate someone because you might overdostrescuatro
Etymology: overdose (over supply)+ spanish 2 3 4 dos tres cuatro
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COMMENTS:
he he. Sounds like drugged out musicians playing from the same songbook! - petaj, 2007-05-07: 06:21:00
Very creative!! - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-07: 13:08:00
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Oureka
Created by: verysimplegame
Pronunciation: Ow-ree-ka
Sentence: Overflowing with the joy of the moment, I ourekaed the email again and again, pausing only occasionally to babble incoherently.
Etymology: Our + Eureka
Splenditto
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /splen-DIT-oh/
Sentence: Whenever Ryan stumbled onto something he thought was new and hip, he'd try to get his friends and people around him to splenditto him. He liked to think of himself as a trendsetter, but usually those people would ignore his suggestions, or pretend to be interested just to humor him.
Etymology: Splendid - excellent, fine, or very good (from L. splendidus "magnificent, brilliant") & Ditto - to duplicate or repeat an action or statement (from Italian, detto, pp. of dire "to say")
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COMMENTS:
I like SPLENDITTO, Tigger!
It's a lot of fun to pronounce.
It implies adulation with just a smattering of sarcasm.
- metrohumanx, 2008-07-07: 08:41:00
ditto - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-07: 11:33:00
Great! A word I can use myself....mega-splendittoes.....oops, I did it, didn't I? - Mustang, 2008-07-07: 18:59:00
Splenditto, faditto, elfadoraditto, ditto-ditto - I like it; great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-07: 19:25:00
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Linyucks
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: lie nnn yuks
Sentence: The twins were a pair of complete linyucks sharing programmes like mosquitos share germs
Etymology: linux, nyucks
Porkbomb
Created by: 0xdeadbeef
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Market-terrorists porkbombed the student protest with free samples of smart drinks and soy snacks, infecting the naive who didn't read the retrovirally-enforced brand loyalty EULAs.
Etymology: from forkbomb - the catastrophic cloning of software processes, and the supposed main ingredient of Spam
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COMMENTS:
Oh noes! It won't let me submit another one! I thought of another one that skirts the definition a little. This one is limited to the sweet old ladies in your life as they discover the internet: gramspam - Deleting "Footprints", "sick kid wants cards", and "scary urban legend" for the n-millionth time, Oswald grimaces at "Otters holding hands", dreading the coming deluge of YouTube inspired gramspam. - 0xdeadbeef, 2007-05-08: 02:43:00
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Distribute
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: distribute
Sentence: Sometimes ghetto white trash wanna bes distribute the rapper Eminem. The rest of us just barf a little inside.
Etymology: ok i'm sorry but it really is perfect! from distribute + tribute
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COMMENTS:
Disstribute -- This would have been a good antonym. When you copy something because it is so BAD you have to show everyone. - petaj, 2007-05-08: 05:24:00
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Explunge
Created by: dmule5
Pronunciation: Ex-plunge
Sentence: Maria feels the need to explunge her newfound beliefs on everyone she meets.
Etymology:
Comments:
Today's definition was inspired by Cory Doctorow's short stories "Printcrime" and "I-Robot" which are both appear in Overclocked. Thank you Cory! ~ James
I absolutely LOVE the illustration on the homepage... gorgeous. Who did it?
Hi inkvision, Thanks for positive review on the drawing. Glad you like it! It was created by me (James Gang), or one of my clones, I'm not sure which. But really, it was nothing, we just copied Cory. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by doctorow. Thank you doctorow. ~ James