Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: pwēˈäkyəˌpī

Sentence: Wendell is pwiioccupied with gaming. He Eats, breathes and sleeps a video game life. He thinks his Wii Fit app has improved his wiiflexes, his wiiaction time. His friends think it has made him a social wiitard. Those friends are planning an intervention to get him into wiihab. It*s all wiidiculous.

Etymology: preoccupied (dominate or engross the mind of someone to the exclusion of other thoughts) + Wii (home video game console released by Nintendo)

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poifect - galwaywegian, 2009-10-02: 10:06:00

wiitty woid, you wiiascally wabbit! - Nosila, 2009-10-02: 11:01:00

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Created by: Mobelia

Pronunciation: click-err-a-tick

Sentence: His intense focus on the video game he played removed any self-consciousness over the clickeratic dance he performed.

Etymology: from Click as in pressing buttons as on the controls for a video game from Erratic as in unpredictable idiosyncracies

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: vidēəsingkrəsēz

Sentence: Most people have a particular way of playing their video games. For most it is subtle, maybe a tilt of the head or grunt that accompanies a certain action. For Andrew, it’s much more than that. His collection of videocyncrasies makes it almost impossible for anybody to play with him in person. The local video cafe once called 911 thinking he was having a seisure.

Etymology: video [game] (a game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a television screen or other display screen) + idiosyncrasy (a mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual)

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COMMENTS:

love it - galwaywegian, 2011-02-21: 04:45:00

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Created by: kiritkiran

Pronunciation:

Sentence: The twerp Arjun Sen is such a loosearms.

Etymology: A man whose thinness of character is reflected in his hanging muscle-bone structure he calls arms. A flashy individual who is as loose as the shirt hanging out of his belly, whether he is thin or fat.

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: gay-mer-trance

Sentence: Corey was out of it, he had been playing the game for a long time and now he was in a gamertrace and unable to focus on anything else.

Etymology: gamer (one who plays games) + trance (a state of reduced aweness sometimes marked by intense focus)

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COMMENTS:

I wanted to suggest something like this, but I was way to slow ;) - allwise, 2007-03-16: 04:43:00

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: nihn-tehn-DOH-sihs

Sentence: Alex's nintendosis affected him to the point that he couldn't hold a pencil in class, and his glazed-over eyes saw little Marios bouncing round the chalkboard.

Etymology: Nintendo + -osis

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: nin + tend + zone

Sentence: I used to get so far into the nintendzone when I was playing Mario Brothers that I'd find myself thinking I *was* Mario.

Etymology: Nintendo Zone!

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: gay-merr-tose

Sentence: there was no point trying to contact Allan between 5 and 11 in the evening as he was always gamertose

Etymology: gamer, comatose

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COMMENTS:

Nice! - allwise, 2007-03-16: 04:43:00

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Created by: Ahmad

Pronunciation: vega-maenia

Sentence: vigamania is an alarming threat to most of our young generation for they love to stuck with play station 24 hours.

Etymology: vi = video, ga= games, and mania means when some one is obsessed with something to an extent that he never thinks or talks about something else.

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: vid - eee - ooo - wee - al - et - ee

Sentence: No one could get Jonah's attention for the past two days. He was clearly in videowiiality and we were all worried. We thought he was becoming dehydrated and it looked like his game system had become his new hallucinogenic.

Etymology: video, wii, reality

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COMMENTS:

Don\'t tell me Jonah forgot his energy drink! - artr, 2009-10-02: 12:22:00

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