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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.
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Gizjizz
Created by: bmills
Pronunciation: Giz/jizz
Sentence: "Dude, you got the new Badberry!?? That's Awesome! I think i just gizjizzed myself. "
Etymology:
Electrogadge
Created by: monkeyx013
Pronunciation: e-lekt-roh-gahj
Sentence: Stick your meta data in my electrogadge!
Etymology: From chimpanzee culture
Ipodify
Created by: livejuicy
Pronunciation: eye-pod-if-eye
Sentence: I love to ipodify so much, I have to wear a tool belt.
Etymology: ipod + magnify
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)
Technocrave
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: tek-no-cray-v
Sentence: Jim technocraved every new gadget especially those that he saw Lydia using.
Etymology: technology + crave
Technologlee
Created by: jerschneid
Pronunciation: TEK-NAH-LO-GLEE
Sentence: Sharon was too overcome by technologlee to realize that her "new iPhone" was actually an old Walkman.
Etymology: A combination of technology and glee.
Technoideum
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: teck-no-id-e-um
Sentence: Billy's dad is so uncool. He's got an iPad and an iPhone and a Blackberry and a Twitter account, but he's never even heard of Angry Birds. He's a total technoideum.
Etymology: techno (short for technology) + no idea (clueless) + idi (incomplete form of idiot) + um (expressing hesitation)
Gadgedweeb
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: ga-dja-dw-ee-b
Sentence: He was always buying the latest pretty gadgets but never could get them to work - he is such a gadgedweeb!
Etymology: Gadge (from gadget) + dweeb (a person regarded as socially inept or foolish)
Beautronic
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Bew-tron-ik
Sentence: Al was in awe of Katie's shiny new beautronic device. To his dismay...it was not something he could compute.
Etymology: Taken in part of the word Beautiful: "Beau" - The concept of beauty. Taken in part of the word Electronic- "Tronic" - Of or pertaining to electronics or to devices, circuits, or systems developed through electronics
Digidrivel
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: didge ee drivvle
Sentence: he spoke complete and utter digidrival in a desperate attempt to ingratiate himself with the hot new techie.
Etymology: digital drivel
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