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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.
Verboticisms
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Dumbphoned
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: dum foned
Sentence: After leaving his phone at the bar last night Doug couldn't even call his own mother. He was completely dumbphoned,
Etymology: dumbfounded + phone
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)
Cyberspaced
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: sy-bur-spaysd
Sentence: She was google-eyed and about to crash. She was so cyberspaced that she couldn't remember her own name without checking her iphone's contact list. She needed a nap to reboot.
Etymology: CYBERSPACE (the electronic medium of computer networks, in which online communication takes place) + SPACED (to become stupified or disoriented from or as if from a drug.)
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COMMENTS:
another great word and the sentence always woes me over - DrWebster111, 2009-05-01: 18:52:00
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Eddiction
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ee dikt shun
Sentence: Ed had such a strong eddiction to things electronic, he could not talk to a pretty girl in front of him. He had to get her e-mail or text address or facebook address before he could ask her out. He was the original cybernaught.
Etymology: ed-electronic device & addiction (dependency)
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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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
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
Techpendence
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: tek pen dun ce
Sentence: Richard and Amy were in such a horrible state of techpendence, neither could remember how to breath without having some device remind them to, show them how to, or do it for them.
Etymology: Technology (computers, gadgetry) + dependence (reliance upon something)
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COMMENTS:
I know those two! - Nosila, 2009-04-30: 18:58:00
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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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Technobsess
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: teck-no-ob-sess
Sentence: Of course all the slow walking people ahead were slowing her pace down. There should be a law she thought, all those technobsessed people texting while walking should get a ticket, especially the ones stopped dead in their tracks. Those who particularly can't spell and walk at the same time. These are the same people who cannot chew gum and walk at the same time.
Etymology: techno (short for technology as in current electronic gadgets) + obsess (to dominate, besiege, control)
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