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DEFINITION: The inability to find, organize, or keep track of, simple physical objects. Often occurs when an individual has developed a search-engine dependency.
Verboticisms
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Gogtechelpendo
Created by: dancerxoxox
Pronunciation: gog/tech/hel/pendo
Sentence: The girl could not find her homework and in anger screamed. The teachers knew she had Gogtechelpendo.
Etymology: Google/technology/help/Dependant.
Internutty
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: In + ter + nut + ee
Sentence: I'd probably be able to find my keys if I could go online and search for them... I guess I'm a bit internutty.
Etymology: internet + nutty
Altavistuffers
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: All-tuh-viss-tuh-furs
Sentence: Danny usually found things in the last place he looked, which he presumed was all the confirmation that he needed to prove he was joining the ranks of the world population of altavistuffers.
Etymology: Altavista + Alzheimer's + stuff + suffers
Overpaskjeeves
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: Oh-ver-pask-jeevs
Sentence: I'm sure whoever made up "Where, oh where, did my little dog go" is suffering from a sever case of Overpaskjeeves.
Etymology: Overpass/overlook (to pass over something unnoticed) + Ask Jeeves (a popular search engine)
Cyberspacey
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: sigh-burr-space-E
Sentence: Since being diagniosed as cyberspacy, John has begun riding his bike to work because keys are "too much responsibility." He's also given up on the sock thing and only wears sandals. Even then, he's been seen barefoot, one shoe in-hand and searching for the other.
Etymology: "cyber" for the tech dependency + "spacey" for the absentmindedness, also the play on "cyberspace"
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COMMENTS:
Is that Kevin Spacey's brother? - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-19: 12:41:00
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Incapaskjeevated
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: ihn-kap-ASK-jee-vay-tuhd
Sentence: When Alex reached for a mouse when searching for his can opener, he realised he was thoroughly incapaskjeevated.
Etymology: incapacitated + Ask Jeeves (ask.com search engine)
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-19: 14:41:00
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Trackache
Created by: geoamnesia
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I hit another 404 today, looking for my socks, and wished Google could just tag and file my laundry.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Could you use your word in the (or a) sentence? Thx! - scrawlspacer, 2007-07-21: 19:25:00
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Yawhere
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: yaaaa wheyr
Sentence: he could google it ask jeeves it and yahoo it, but he just couldn't yawhere it. So he made a donation to Saint Anthony via paypal, and lo and behold, it was down the back of the couch, even though it wasn't there the last time he checked.
Etymology: yahoo, ya who, ya where
Ilinventorate
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: ill-in-vent-o-rat
Sentence: Billy's ilinventoracy hindered his career plans to become a search engine programmer.
Etymology: il (as in illiterate) + inventory
Dogpiled
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: dawg-pi-uhled
Sentence: He had Googled, Yahooed, MSN'd, and Asked Jeeves, but he was dogpiled and still couldn't figure out which slot in the drawer the spoons went.
Etymology: Dogpile "All the best search engines piled into one."; dog pile - what my mother used to call my bed
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COMMENTS:
One can only imagine why your bed was called a "dog pile" ;) - ziggy41, 2007-07-19: 04:49:00
hehe! - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-19: 06:51:00
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Comments:
Kyoti - 2007-07-19: 10:25:00
Altavistuff
Kyoti - 2007-07-19: 10:26:00
Wow, look at that. I need a drink! ;))
Does alcohol have a salutary effect on boxlexia?