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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.
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Addclicktion
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ad-clik-shun
Sentence: after 3 hours of compulsive refreshing, he realised he had a serious addclicktion
Etymology: addiction, click
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)
Mousefreteering
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: mows/fret/eer/ing
Sentence: Don's kids were known march around the room behind him during the last few minutes of his Ebay auctions singing, "Who's the leader of Ebay, who's Dad to you and me...C-L-I...CK-E -Y...M-O-U-S-E." He did not appreciate their mocking his affliction. Mousefreteering is not a laughing matter, and he has the handicapped plaque in his car to prove it.
Etymology: Root word-Mousketeer: One of a group of children appearing on the television program The Mickey Mouse Club in the 1950's. Fret: fuss: worry unnecessarily or excessively.
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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Updatelust
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈʌpdeɪtˌlʌst/
Sentence: A watched blog never posts, but this does nothing to lessen the updatelust.
Etymology: From update + lust
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)
Micettes
Created by: hooterbug
Pronunciation: \ˈmīs\ets-
Sentence: Martha had a full on case of micettes as she waited impatiently on a page view of her newly loaded Match.com profile.
Etymology: Combination of MICE + Tourettes (a familial neurological disorder of variable expression that is characterized by recurrent involuntary tics involving body movements (as eye blinks or grimaces) and vocalizations (as grunts or utterance of inappropriate words), often has one or more associated conditions (as obsessive-compulsive disorder), is more common in males than females, and usually has an onset in childhood and often stabilizes or ameliorates in adulthood
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
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
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Thank you pinwheel! ~ James
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Today's definition was suggested by pinwheel. Thank you pinwheel. ~ James