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DEFINITION: n. The inability to find, organize, or keep track of, simple physical objects. Often occurs when an individual has developed a search-engine dependency. v. To search for something that should be easy to find.
Verboticisms
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Cybernizer
Created by: dstorm78
Pronunciation: cy - ber - nie - zer
Sentence: I'm such a cybernizer; I wish I could search through my house for my keys with my computer.
Etymology: Combination of "cyber" and "organizer", someone who uses cyberspace to organize.
Beingaman
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: bee-ing-a-man
Sentence: Of course, this ineptitude could quite easily be credited to beingaman
Etymology: Obvious, surely?
Disorgajumble
Created by: bghicks
Pronunciation: dis-orga-jumble
Sentence: He was completely organized in the office, but at home everything he owned was disorgajumbled.
Etymology: disorga - from disorganized jumble - a big pile o' stuff
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COMMENTS:
so true! - wordmeister, 2007-01-05: 11:30:00
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Googlepsy
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: goo-gul-ep-see
Sentence: After failing to find his keys, Bob was overcome by a bout of googlepsy, and tried turning to the popular search engine for their location.
Etymology: Google, epilepsy
Prealtavistupied
Created by: Stump
Pronunciation: pre*altah*vistu*pied
Sentence: When he finally gets away from the computer Paul is so prealtavitupied he does the dumbest things. He once put butter on the wrong side of his toast.
Etymology: From the word preoccupied - meaning to be unaware and the name altavista, a once popular search engine.
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COMMENTS:
Butter on the wrong side of the toast? Man! He must of been totally confused... - wordmeister, 2007-01-05: 10:36:00
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Googolic
Created by: garlinger626
Pronunciation: like alcoholic...goog-olic
Sentence: I can't seem to find anything without Google, I have to deal with the fact that I might be a googolic.
Etymology:
Googaholic
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: goōgəhôlik
Sentence: The meeting began with Mark and others standing up and stating, **My name is Mark (or their own name) and I am a googaholic**. He knew he had to do this because he had become ingoogable of finding anything, even his googfriend*s house without his search engine and she lived just across the street.
Etymology: alcoholic - incapable - girlfriend
Googloss
Created by: whimsy
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After he finally lost the ability to track where his own home was without the use of Mapquest, his doctor started to recognize googloss as a serious disorder.
Etymology: Google + loss
Parapherfailure
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: pa-ra-fer-fayl-yer
Sentence: Once out of cyberspace, his parapherfailure meant he couldn't locate the keys.
Etymology: From "paraphernalia" and "failure".
