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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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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)

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Techmoronology

pollyc

Created by: pollyc

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Gorgauseless

Created by: weareallbeautiful

Pronunciation: g-or-j-uh-u-s-l-eh-ss

Sentence: Bob stared at the gorgauseless blue object in his hand wondering how it worked when Abby walked by and said "Put my paperweight down Bob!"

Etymology: gorgeous+useless

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Utensilly

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: you/tense/silly

Sentence: Chris had a workshop full of every utensilly ever sold on the shopping channel.

Etymology: utensil + silly

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COMMENTS:

Nice word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-27: 17:46:00

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Gizmofetish

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: GIZ - moe - fet - ish

Sentence: Being smitten with a very passionate gizmofetish, Warren could not pass up any opportunity to fiddle with technological toys or devices and often made a complete fool of himself with his absolute lack of understanding of how they work.

Etymology: Blend of 'gizmo' (A mechanical device or part whose name is forgotten or unknown; a gadget) and 'fetish' (any object, idea, etc., eliciting unquestioning reverence, respect, or devotion)

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metrohumanx It's terrible to suffer the stigma of a thingamajig hangup. Damn those deviant doohickeys! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-25: 01:15:00

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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!

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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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metrohumanx bigblue lappy 486 or commodore 16 afficionado ? - metrohumanx, 2008-07-25: 02:17:00

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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)

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Hallucinnovate

petaj

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)

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Gadgerbate

Created by: Jampot

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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-06-04: 01:33:00
Today's definition was suggested by shutz. Thank you shutz! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-06-04: 01:55:00
Read about Jabberwocky's Garden of Verbal Delights in Verbotoweek.

metrohumanx metrohumanx - 2008-07-25: 00:56:00
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!

metrohumanx metrohumanx - 2008-07-25: 01:12:00
Sometimes my "comments" seem to appear in the wrong places....if only some clever soul would invent a GIZBO to prevent that.

metrohumanx metrohumanx - 2008-07-25: 01:20:00
....my brain hurts.....

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-12-29: 00:10:00
Today's definition was suggested by shutz. Thank you shutz. ~ James