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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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Ifraud
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: i/frod
Sentence: Jolene's excitement lasted about as long as it took for her to pick up Target's new item. Even though she liked to tell herself she shopped at "Tarjay," tonight she had to admit, their new $4.00 music player was nothing but an Ifraud.
Etymology: I-Usually manufactured by Apple but this time Crapple. Fraud: Something intended to deceive.
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COMMENTS:
bigblue lappy 486 or commodore 16 afficionado ? - metrohumanx, 2008-07-25: 02:17:00
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Newtonspire
Created by: jadenguy
Pronunciation: New - Tin - Spire
Sentence: She coughed into her sleeve as she roamed the back alleys looking for her available dumpster, one left undisturbed by the savage local gearheads; the south side seemed promising, teeming with office parks rented often to failed startups. Her next hit of Newtonspiration would come in the form of a smart-minifridge. The internet would never go want for her milk-status again!
Etymology: Apple Newton + inspire or perspire or maybe just a spire, like the holy thing on churches that doesn't really mean anything in modern Christianity (look it up).
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COMMENTS:
great story as usual jadenguy - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-04: 12:21:00
thanks! i really like to put time into carefully crafting the exact feel of my word through narrative. - jadenguy, 2007-06-04: 12:33:00
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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:
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
Ifrenzy
Created by: ellboogie
Pronunciation: I-fren-zee
Sentence: Vickie was all in an ifrenzy about the new v16.327 64 ziggybyte Waystahdoe going on sale for $995 at the Peachy Computers store. Bobby couldn't wait to replace his old ifrenzy that she bought three weeks ago.
Etymology:
Electrogadge
Created by: monkeyx013
Pronunciation: e-lekt-roh-gahj
Sentence: Stick your meta data in my electrogadge!
Etymology: From chimpanzee culture
Contriviance
Created by: blacklotus90
Pronunciation: kun-triv-ee-ance
Sentence: That new RSS-reading toaster is nothing more than a contriviance!
Etymology: Contrivance (a device to perform a certain task) + Trivial (pointless, useless, futile)
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)
Gizbo
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: giz/bo
Sentence: His latest gizbo was a beautiful oak stand with a built in light to hold and display his pet rock.
Etymology: gizmo + bimbo
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COMMENTS:
Gotta vote for Gizbo! - texmom, 2007-06-04: 16:52:00
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Nerdbrain
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: nurd-breyn
Sentence: John has to have every new device or gadget that hits the market. The only problem is he is such a nerdbrain that he can barely figure out how to open the package much less than make it work. The good thing is that he has pristine items to trade in or re-sell when the new one comes out.
Etymology: nerd (stupid or ridiculous person ) + birdbrain (a stupid, foolish, or scatterbrained person)
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