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DEFINITION: n. Obsessive-compulsive rechecking or "refreshing" of an item (especially a webpage) to see if its status has changed; often leads to repetitive mouse-clicking disorder.v. To constantly recheck or refresh your twitter page, or email account.
Verboticisms
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Micehockey
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: myse/hahky
Sentence: Jack was a champion micehockey player constantly on his game, cleverly mouse handling with one hand while fielding phone calls with the other
Etymology: ice hockey + mouse (plural, mice)
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COMMENTS:
very clever - petaj, 2007-05-01: 00:17:00
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Fastidimouse
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: fas/ti/dee/mouse
Sentence: Mickey was overly fastidimouse and could not let more than ten seconds elapse before checking his ebay account.
Etymology: fastidious (overly fussy) + mouse
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COMMENTS:
Me likey. :) - lumina, 2008-07-19: 22:23:00
Good word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-20: 07:12:00
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Upwait
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: əpwāt
Sentence: Paul has to constantly upwait his fave web pages. He has made a rule for himself that he must upwait at least for a count of 3 between clicks. He*s found that he can count to 3 very fast. Who has a new status on Facebook? Who is ahead in the pillow fight? Who has tweeted? Did they say something about him? He has to know.
Etymology: update (make something more modern or up to date) wait (stay where one is or delay action until a particular time or until something else happens)
Multimousing
Created by: billnruth
Pronunciation: multi-mouse-ing
Sentence: John was at it again, the hand going ten to the dozen, multimousing without a thought for the poor mouse. Completely unproductive, known in the office as having a serious dose of the MMs.
Etymology: multi -- meaning many times (lat) mouse -- plastic rodent at the end of a wire or increasingly wireless (OE/mod Am)
Clickflixation
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: clik/fix/ay/shun
Sentence: He was often accused of having a clickflixation because he carried his mouse around in his pocket when he was offline
Etymology: a take on chickflick + click + flick + fixation
Refreshaholic
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: re-fresh-a-hol-ic
Sentence: Bill was a refreshaholic and compulsively would recheck his email and favorite blogs for updates.
Etymology: refresh + aholic
Clickymouseania
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Clik-ee-mous-ay-nia
Sentence: Jo unfortunately sufferered from an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which led to her constantly checking and rechecking things. Last month it was seeing if the gas cooker had been left on, this month she had developed clickymouseania with the button on her laptop, she felt compelled to refresh every page she went to just to check the status. She spent so much time doing this that she hardly looked at any of the webpages she was on.
Etymology: Click (an act of pressing one of the buttons on a computer mouse) + Mouse (a small hand held device which controls cursor movements on a computer screen) + Mania (Mental illness marked by periods of overactivity, an obsession) = Clickymouseania
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-18: 10:48:00
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Cyclick
Created by: pinwheel
Pronunciation: sy/click
Sentence: Harry had cyclick phases where he would refresh the daily Verbotomy words so frequently that his finger was developing a double-click twitch.
Etymology: cyclic (on a regular basis) + click (the button)
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COMMENTS:
Do you think it's a cycological problem? - petaj, 2007-04-30: 05:15:00
It could well be cycosomatclick! - pinwheel, 2007-04-30: 05:17:00
very nice! - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-30: 12:39:00
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Refreshoholism
Created by: Pasicheio
Pronunciation: Re-Fresh-Oh-Hall-Ism
Sentence: Jerry is a refreshoholic when it comes to news websites
Etymology: Refresh; Alcoholism
Clikche
Created by: idavecook
Pronunciation: clique-shay
Sentence: If Marcy's clikche doesn't subside, I am going to have to get out the arsenic. NO, it's for me.
Etymology: Clik + Cliche
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by pinwheel.
Thank you pinwheel! ~ James
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Today's definition was suggested by pinwheel. Thank you pinwheel. ~ James