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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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Evangecloning
Created by: inkvision
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The early evangecloners wrote zines and compiled custom mix cassettes. Now, evangecloning is the habit of flickr pros, bloggers porting rss feed from BoingBoing, MySpace "musicians", YouTube uploaders and hollywood film copiers.
Etymology: Evangelize, cloning
Dupligreat
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: doop li grate
Sentence: When Lenny came up with the U-Clone machine, he thought it would be a dupligreat success. Only problem was that instead of aping the person using it, all the copies came out looking like Lenny...
Etymology: Duplicate (reproduce, replicate, copy) & Great (wonderful,very good)
Mimeoexstatic
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: mim-eo-exstatic
Sentence: She loved those tiny purple flowers so much, that she went all mimeoexstatic on them and 10 minutes later they were in every yard on her street.
Etymology: mimeograph + exstatic
Plagiariffic
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: plag/are/if/ick
Sentence: Joe is plagiarific. As a salesman, he uses all of the latest and greatest ideas he "borrowed" from the business books on the 'Best Sellers List' and shares them with his clients to impress them.
Etymology: PLAGIARIFFIC - noun - from PLAGIARIZE (to take and use ideas, or passages from another's work)+ TERRIFIC (extremely good; wonderful)
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COMMENTS:
Welcome back, Stevenson0! - Nosila, 2009-11-24: 01:14:00
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Giftliferation
Created by: katytee
Pronunciation: trips off the tongue
Sentence: in an act of unsolicited giftliferation,simon distributed handwritten copies of 'who moved my cheese' to his colleagues. Everyone hated Simon.
Etymology: (Proliferation + Gift)
Narcissentmail
Created by: HubbMU
Pronunciation: nar-siss-sent-mail
Sentence: After slaving over his thesis, Fred engaged in a small degree of narcissentmail by spamming everyone in his address book with a copy.
Etymology: Narcissistic and "sent mail"
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COMMENTS:
Isn't that more like ham than spam? - jedijawa, 2007-05-08: 10:47:00
Good word! - Stevenson0, 2007-05-08: 21:04:00
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Xeroxerific
Created by: daisy
Pronunciation: zee-roks-er-if-ic
Sentence: I don't just want to be with you, I want to BE you - you are xeroxerific!
Etymology:
Lamogrande
Created by: DavidShantz
Pronunciation: Lay-mo-gran-day
Sentence: This guy won't last a week, LamoGrande
Etymology: Lame (surf)+ Oh + Grande (Spanish) Meaning: ineffective and maladroit on a monumental scale
Digivalry
Created by: teleolurian
Pronunciation: didj-IV-ul-ree
Sentence: Out of digivalry, I just sent you a link to my mp3 server.
Etymology: digital + chivalry
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COMMENTS:
It's nice to see such kindness (and clever words) in this day and age. - wordmeister, 2007-05-07: 21:50:00
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Cloningenuous
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: klone-in-gen-u-ous
Sentence: It never occured to Matt that his recycled opinions weren't original. Even if he could acknowledge this fact, he was such a cloningenuous that he'd assume the person he'd knicked his ideas from would be flattered.
Etymology: cloning (identical copying or imitation) + ingenuous (naive, innocent)
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