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DEFINITION: v. To be so dependent on computers and other gadgets, that you cannot communicate or even think without them. n. A person who cannot communicate, or even think, without using an electronic device.
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Ependent
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ēpendənt
Sentence: Some people write themselves notes to remember important things. John will text or e-mail himself to keep his life in order. He is absolutely ependent. Between his laptop and iPhone everything he does is scheduled, planned or stored electronically. His answer to almost any task or question presented is "I have an app for that". He almost had a crisis last Friday when he forgot to schedule bathroom breaks. Luckily he still has a residual biological override.
Etymology: e (denoting anything in an electronic state, esp. the use of electronic data transfer in cyberspace) + dependent (unable to do without)
Iphoneatic
Created by: EpicButCrazy
Pronunciation: eye-phone-at-ick
Sentence: v. He's totally iphonatic. He can't go 5 minutes without checking his updates on his phone. n. She's an iphonatic, nothing else would spend that much time on mobile Twitter.
Etymology: iPhone+fanatic
Gadjitters
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: gadd-jiht-terz
Sentence: Whenever Das couldn't find her iphone she got the gadjitters so bad the ringtones in her head wouldn't stop until she'd had a triple shot in her chocolate mint mocha.
Etymology: GADJET + JITTERS
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COMMENTS:
sounds yummy - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-30: 12:58:00
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Tweetwit
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: tweeee twiht
Sentence: They were the perfect couple, he was a tweetwit, she was a tweetwitterher
Etymology: tweet, twit
Symbiotech
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: sim - bee - ot - tek
Sentence: Jeffrey had a symtiotech relationship with his laptop and PDA. He had a difficult time keeping track of his life, making plans or even communicating if he did not have one of them nearby.
Etymology: symbiotic (The intimate living together of two dissimilar organisms, frequently (but not always) in a mutually beneficial relationship), tech (abbreviation for technology)
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COMMENTS:
clever - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-30: 12:47:00
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Gismaddiction
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: GIZ-auh-dik-shun
Sentence: Being smitten with a very passionate gizmadiction, Warren could not pass up any opportunity to fiddle with technological toys or devices and often made a complete fool of himself as he did not have a thorough understanding of some of the systems and applications he often used.
Etymology: Blend of 'gizmo' (A mechanical device or part whose name is forgotten or unknown; a gadget) and 'addiction' (Compulsive physiological and psychological need)
Devicecontrived
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: De-vice-con-trive-d
Sentence: Mary was into technology that Mary had forgotten how "devicecontrived" she was until,she had to pull up her name on her I-Phone to tell Gus!
Etymology: Device: An invention serving a particular purpose, especially a machine used to perform one or more relatively simple tasks. Contrived: forced, planned, laboured, strained, artificial, elaborate, unnatural, overdone
Syndrotechnophilin
Created by: someperson101
Pronunciation: sɪndrotɛknofɪlən
Sentence: The syndrotechnophilin usually doesn't get out of bed, but it served by his/her phone (by ordering pizza) and will lay by the door and wait for pizza.
Etymology: syndrome + technophile
Yahooked
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ya hookt
Sentence: He was so yahooked that he failed to see that her Mozillas were so big, they'd have googled his eyebrowsers!
Etymology: Yahoo (Internet browser; also not very intelligent or interested in culture) & Hooked (as in addicted to a drug)
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COMMENTS:
funny sentence - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-30: 12:48:00
yes I agree. - splendiction, 2009-04-30: 23:08:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you! And yes I can think without a keyboard, it's just that my mind wanders... ~ James
readerwriter - 2009-04-30: 08:13:00
OK...does anyone think it's weird when you think of the definition the day before it appears?
abrakadeborah - 2009-05-05: 01:24:00
Reader you must be a "Verbotopsychic"
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James