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'Quit clicking on me. Use F5!'

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.

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Clicksia

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: click + see + uh

Sentence: I have a mild case of clicksia when it comes to my online banking, I check it a good 10 times a day.

Etymology: click + um, diseases that end in "sia."

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Refretish

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ree fret ish

Sentence: he had a serious refretish, especially when he had posted a new word.

Etymology: refresh fetish

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petaj nice one - petaj, 2007-05-01: 00:15:00

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Oversite

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: over syte

Sentence: Due to his oversite and excitement on getting a reply, all of the 1200 hits on his singles ad were his own.

Etymology: Over (overdo;too much) & Site (a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web)and Wordplay on oversight (an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something)

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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

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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)

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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

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Clickkick

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: KLIHK-kihk

Sentence: Alex's clickkick meant he had to replace his mouth every three months.

Etymology: click + kick (thrill, or addiction)

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COMMENTS:

OY OY OY, that was odd, I meant "mouse", of course. I didn't know I typed with a lisp. :P - mplsbohemian, 2007-04-30: 11:01:00

Hehe! Reminds me of the time I typed Whittier, California with an S instead of a W! - toadstool57, 2007-04-30: 19:09:00

And would you believe I'm changing my first name to Whittier? I'll remember to be careful of that! - mplsbohemian, 2007-04-30: 21:24:00

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Obsessivecompressive

Created by: thinkbolt

Pronunciation: ob-sess-iv-com-press-iv

Sentence:

Etymology:

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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...

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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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Sounds like Tom would be good at Verbotomy. - wordmeister, 2007-04-30: 21:24:00

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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-30: 00:01:19
Today's definition was suggested by pinwheel.
Thank you pinwheel! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-30: 01:26:00
Weeklink rights again! More word abuse at Verbotoweek! A look back at last week's words and comments. See the Verbotomy Blog.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-11-16: 00:03:00
Today's definition was suggested by pinwheel. Thank you pinwheel. ~ James