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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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Refreshoholism
Created by: Pasicheio
Pronunciation: Re-Fresh-Oh-Hall-Ism
Sentence: Jerry is a refreshoholic when it comes to news websites
Etymology: Refresh; Alcoholism
Elechronicmail
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: el-eck-ron-ic-mail
Sentence: He was completely addicted to checking his inbox every three minutes. He was an elechronicmailer.
Etymology: electronic mail (online communication) + chronic (habitual or inveterate)
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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Remousing
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: re-mous-ing
Sentence: Ralph was quickly remousing his computer in order to win the bid on Flea-Bay.
Etymology: Re - To repeat. Mouse - A computer mouse with the most common standard features: two buttons and a scroll wheel, which can also act as a third button. In computing, a mouse is a pointing device that functions by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its supporting surface. Physically, a mouse consists of an object held under one of the user's hands, with one or more buttons. Ing - The act of a remouser that's remousing.
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)
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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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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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...
Clicketytwit
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: KLIK eh tee TWIT
Sentence: Jan doesn't need instant messaging capability because she is more inclined to clicketytwit her twitter page, Hotmail mailbox, and Facebook page in quick succession to see if she has any new messages. She doesn't even remember what "real time" is anymore. She likes to rapidly clicketytwit on Evite to see "Who is Coming" or who has sent "Regrets" to her parties and gatherings. She was busy doing this one late morning, sitting around in her pajamas, when she suddenly realized one of the events she had posted an invitation for was her own wedding, and that it was about three hours later that same day!
Etymology: Click + lickety-split (rapidly) + twit (could refer to twitter, or to a person who is a twit, take it however you like)
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COMMENTS:
clickitydoodah - Nosila, 2009-11-16: 23:01:00
It can be maddening to have to wait for the computer to update, enough to clicketyspit. - artr, 2009-11-19: 12:49:00
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Updatelust
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈʌpdeɪtˌlʌst/
Sentence: A watched blog never posts, but this does nothing to lessen the updatelust.
Etymology: From update + lust
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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