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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.
Goonesia
Created by: kumza
Pronunciation: goo nee jee ah
Sentence: Hector needed his epee pen after the wasp sting, but alas, his goonesia prevented him from finding it. He died.
Etymology: google amnesia
Yahoosiery
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ya hooz yeree
Sentence: Steve Wotsockniak was experiencing washday again and with it, the feeling of utter yahoosiery. Again his trip to the dryer had coughed up one less sock than he had entered into the machine. Somewhere in cybersockspace, another pink argyll was floating around aimlessly, looking for it's mate. Every week, Steve lost a sock in this manner and perhaps those lost soles did it on purpose. Maybe they contacted e-Darn-on-me.com to help them find their real sole mates...socks that shared their dreams and intellectual interests. Luckily Steve was such a nerd, that no one thought it odd that he wore two different socks to work. It was ironic though that he worked at a Help Desk, but could not help himself...
Etymology: Yahoo (search engine on Internet) & Hosiery (socks and stockings and tights collectively)
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
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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Hyporderia
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /"hI-pOr-'dir-E-&/
Sentence: Hypoderia is a serious condition affecting millions of procrastinators and idealists worldwide, but it often overshadows the equally troubling condition of hyperoderia, affecting overworked file clerks and often accompanying OCD.
Etymology: From hypo- + order
Unorgooglanized
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: uhn-owr-goo-gul-an-ized
Sentence: I have become very unorgooglanized ever since they cruelly decided not to make google's powers extend beyond the internet.
Etymology: unorganized + google
Clickaddicted
Created by: sarach
Pronunciation: click-ah-dik-ted
Sentence: I'm so click addicted I tried to Google the newspaper I was reading this morning.
Etymology:
Librarianemesis
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: lie-brair-ea-NEM-a-sis
Sentence: Since the advent of the world wide web, Alice, the librarian, had given up cataloging the contents of her house. She was afflicted with a malaise known as librarianemesis.
Etymology: librarian (traditional stereotype includes being inordinately organised) + nemesis ("the bane of my life")
Lostaganism
Created by: nancyblue
Pronunciation: lost-tag-an-ism
Sentence: Hillary erupted in lostaganism upon learning that her red old stand-bye pantsuit was not picked up at the cleaners, because the store had gone out of business due to the great recession.
Etymology: lost: become unable to find ------ antagonism: active hostility or opposition
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COMMENTS:
Lostaginism occurs for many reasons: a lost hair clip,missing glove, misplaced infant child - nancyblue, 2011-01-03: 20:44:00
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