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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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Refreshaclickmania
Created by: brightetes8
Pronunciation: (ree-fresh-uh-klik-may-nee-uh)(NOUN)
Sentence: His refreshaclickmania led him to wasted hours on the same web page.
Etymology: refresh as in reloading a web page + a -a pronoun + click as in the most common action used on a computer mouse + mania as in a obsessive disorder that is compulsive and sometimes leads to hysteria.
Updatelust
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈʌpdeɪtˌlʌst/
Sentence: A watched blog never posts, but this does nothing to lessen the updatelust.
Etymology: From update + lust
Brainframing
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: brain-framing (like mainframe & aiming with a brain in the beginning)
Sentence: He was brainframing since two hours on verbotomy.com, but nobody voted for his spuntastic words. She was totally brainframed by a mad user looking for the mystical secret hidden in the pixel-cascade of that slow-loading illuminatus-webpage - after brainframing for 23 hours she finally found out that there was a hidden 23px margin between the background of the main-div and the logo-image.
Etymology: The word comes from the Pixelfarmers of the South. They like to hang out and load frame after frame, again and again, into their biological mainframe, into their brain - for hours - since years. Framefarmers... but that's how they are...
Pavlovsmouse
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: pav-laavz-mouse
Sentence: Myspace, Facebook, and Verbotomoy users often experience Pavlovsmouse syndrome, especially when other work HAS to be done during the given time. By the time the person's fingers get numb, the person probably has to get up and go to the bathroom or get food, in which case the important work will still not get done.
Etymology: from (computer) mouse + pavlov's dogs (an experiment that involved the repetitive ringing of a bell to fool dogs into thinking there was food... because we click and click even if theres NO realistic chance at a site update)
Repeticlick
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: reh - PET - uh - clik
Sentence: Having several windows constantly open on his computer, Morton would compulsively repeticlick, jumping from window to window refreshing Verbotomy standings, his news and financial pages, Yahoo Sports pages, the Drudgereport and checking for responses on his MySpace page.
Etymology: Blend of 'repetitive' (pertaining to or characterized by repetition) and 'Click'
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COMMENTS:
great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-18: 10:49:00
Terrific. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-20: 07:10:00
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Clixation
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: klik - sey - shuhn
Sentence: Research shows that verbotomists wearing long-sleeved orange shirts with weird designs on it have a slightly higher tendency of clixation compared to others. Furthermore, verbotomists with much higher tendencies of clixation ... are those who own a mouse.
Etymology: click + fixation (an obsession)
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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Anoracksianervosa
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: an- or - axe - eea- nerv oh -sa
Sentence: Tom's anoracksianervosa was getting worse. He was now spellchecking word for the day and googling his dog. Apparently he knows where leif Garret is right now.
Etymology: anorack- type of jecket, preferred clothing of those who get obseesed with ther minutiea of technical life.
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COMMENTS:
Sounds like Tom would be good at Verbotomy. - wordmeister, 2007-04-30: 21:24:00
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Ohseethese
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: oh see theeeeees
Sentence: His ohseethese led to an RSI, two STDs amd eventually, a P45.
Etymology: oh see these OCD
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