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DEFINITION: v. To obsess over, and fantasize about electronic gadgets even though you can never figure out how they actually work. n. A beautiful but useless gadget.
Verboticisms
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Technorant
Created by: hooterbug
Pronunciation: tek /nə / rənt
Sentence: Jamie's Dad couldn't quite understand his daughter. "Why do you need a new Iphone?" "Whats so wrong with the Ipod I got you last year?" "Oh geez DAD!" Jaime whined, "You are SO Technorant!"
Etymology: Blend of Technology and Ignorant
Yabadabadoodad
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ya/ba/da/ba/do/dad
Sentence: Fred kept tripping over his big flat feet every time he encountered a new yabadabadoodad.
Etymology: doodad + yabadabadoo
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COMMENTS:
like the roombstodon, the self guided vacuum pachyderm? *wop wop* it's a livin'. - jadenguy, 2007-06-04: 12:36:00
I'd make a comment about Wilma's vibraptor, but that would be sacrilege. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-04: 13:58:00
You rock. *cough* - Osomatic, 2007-06-04: 17:34:00
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Yphone
Created by: idavecook
Pronunciation: Why, fone
Sentence: "I just got the 3G yPhone, it's sleek body feels so good in my hand, and you know I'll pick up some ladies with this thing." You realize, that's just the box you're holding, right?
Etymology: Why don't I have the freakin 3G iPhone!
Hallucinnovate
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: hal-loose-in-o-vate
Sentence: Nick the geek, had all the latest gadgets even though he couldn't use them. But his failure to master them was not enough to stop him hallucinnovating about what new gizmos would be available next week.
Etymology: hallucinate (fantasy vision) + innovation (something new, usually technological)
Imacguffin
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: i + mac + guff + in
Sentence: I don't know what this new iMacguffin is, but I MUST HAVE ONE.
Etymology: iPhone, iPod, etc... only applied to a Macguffin.
Electrowidget
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: e lect o wid jet
Sentence: He bought the $600 red electrowidget as a gift for himself on Father's Day even though he had no clue what it was.
Etymology: electro - run by electricity widget - something non-understandable but useful.
Electrophunk
Created by: gautambarathwaj
Pronunciation: Pronunced as "ELEK-TRO-FUNK"
Sentence: He knows about the latest gadgets. He's an Electrophunk!
Etymology:
Inflappuation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: in flap u ay shun
Sentence: When he saw her pink electronic device, Kenny had an attack of inflappuation. Like a magpie obsessed with shiny things, he was attracted to all things from cyber space. So bemused was he that he failed to notice Wendy's "device" was actually her container of Secret deodorant. That is why it is strong enough for a man, but made for a woman!
Etymology: Infatuation (an object of extravagant short-lived passion) & App (short for application...a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task)
Gizmotional
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: giz-mo-shun-uhl
Sentence: Bob became gizmotional and overwhelmed with gadgeglee upon opening his new 10-in-one remote control, until he realized the only button he recognized was "On".
Etymology: gizmo, emotional
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COMMENTS:
very heartfelt purple - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-04: 12:01:00
Good word. - ErWenn, 2007-06-04: 12:09:00
Good thing I didn't add the part about him pushing the down button and crushing the neighbor's cat under their garage door. (flintstones, meet the flintstones... thanks for my current bout of tunacy jabber. grrrrr....) - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-04: 12:13:00
Word of the day. I get so gizmotional, baby... every time I watch Gremlins Two-hoo-hoo. - Clayton, 2007-06-04: 21:45:00
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Technohocklical
Created by: mana1066
Pronunciation: tek no hok lick el
Sentence: He was so technohocklical that he would go to the internet cafe and stand over everyones shoulders until he got kicked out.
Etymology: technological + hock(dont know why i liked hock in there- it just felt right)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by shutz. Thank you shutz! ~ James
Read about Jabberwocky's Garden of Verbal Delights in Verbotoweek.
pronunciation: uh-GOG-uh-tek........... sentence:Poor old Ira Gobler was AGOGATECH at his designer's latest device.He was so AGOGATECH that he let the factory's flaccid finances flow into a virtual vat of vapors while he thoughtfully tinkered and tweaked the tin toys and gamboled among the gizmoes generated just beyond the grounded iron gates of the fabrication facility...Someday...he would write an operator's manual...................... etymology: Agog+at+Technology=aGOGatech!
Sometimes my "comments" seem to appear in the wrong places....if only some clever soul would invent a GIZBO to prevent that.
....my brain hurts.....
Today's definition was suggested by shutz. Thank you shutz. ~ James