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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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Hooktonclix
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: hooked-n-clicks
Sentence: Shelly's hooktonclix resulted in uncontrollable contractions of her lumbricals. Part of her therapy was to set up a feed aggregator to do the updating for her.
Etymology: hooked on (addicted to) + Braxton Hicks (contractions experienced during pregnancy) + click
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COMMENTS:
oooohhhh... Toni Braxton. XD - ohwtepph, 2007-04-30: 05:11:00
Congrats on winning the mug, Petaj! Did you pick a verbotomy for it yet? I like your "tabooty". - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-30: 06:59:00
I think I'll go for "insultant" since it's my best one from last week. - petaj, 2007-05-01: 00:20:00
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Webberneck
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: WEB-ber-nek
Sentence: Roxie feared that if Bob continued to be such an obsessive webberneck, staring curiously and inquisitively whilst clicking frequently from webpage to webpage, he soon would become emouseculated.
Etymology: WEBBER: a user of the WWW; an internet user & NECK (as in rubberneck);straining one's neck to watch, checkout what's going on; gawk. EMOUSECULATE: Lose one's webrility or E-potency.
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COMMENTS:
love it! - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-18: 10:47:00
Great word! - Mustang, 2008-07-18: 18:33:00
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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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Clecking
Created by: Rhyme79
Pronunciation: cuh-leh-king
Sentence: "Argh, twitter has given me a real clecking issue!" "I must have clecked that page a hundred times hoping for an update."
Etymology: An amalgam of the words clicking and checking. Note that re-clecking is grammatically incorrect as clecking intrinsically refers to repeated actions.
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COMMENTS:
Your first verboticism? Excellent word, definitely 'useable'. :) - Discoveria, 2012-09-10: 16:43:00
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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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Compulsorecheck
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: com-PULS-er-ee-chek
Sentence: Following his usual pattern, Lester accomplished his one hundredth compulsorecheck of his email, his twitter account and his Facebook wall and as usual all rechecks revealed no new entries.
Etymology: Blend of compulsory (bound for, fated in near future) and recheck - to check again (check - to make an inquiry, investigation, etc., as for verification)
Updatelust
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈʌpdeɪtˌlʌst/
Sentence: A watched blog never posts, but this does nothing to lessen the updatelust.
Etymology: From update + lust
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.
Misochronous
Created by: verysimplegame
Pronunciation: My-so-crow-nus
Sentence: The last two minutes of each ebay auction rendered Jules quite misochronous.
Etymology: Mice + isochronous
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COMMENTS:
(my-so-crow-nus) - verysimplegame, 2007-05-08: 08:35:00
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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
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