Verboticisms

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: ex-box-I-tis

Sentence: After a lengthy session playing games Delbert suddenly began to experience severe Xboxitis that included tremors, loss of motor skills and eventually resulted in his entering a catatonic state.

Etymology: Combination of Xbox with suffix 'itis - with nouns - denoting abnormal states or conditions, excesses, tendencies, obsessions, etc. ( telephonitis; baseballitis ).

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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: edotanonymous

Pronunciation: Slaw-shuh-tick

Sentence: Despite our 24-hour Call of Duty binge, the crunched-into-the-rug Cheetos and beer stained carpet revealed the sloshatic I had become.

Etymology: Slosh - to agitate/spill -atic - pertaining to the nature of

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: wee vull shun

Sentence: Terry was in a full state of wiivulsion which nobody was going to be able to get him out of for several hours.

Etymology: from the wii and convulsion for the twitching and compulsion for the not being able to seperate from it.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: win ten do nye tis

Sentence: Buster played his video games morning, noon and night to the consternation of his parents. He was so intent on winning each game, he was oblvious to the need to rest, eat and hydrate himself. He could barely move his hand or arm anymore, as he was developing wintendonitis. There was always a pong coming from his room, his nickname was Gameboy and he thought Mario and Luigi were his real brothers. His parents could not wait for September, when Buster would go to school and apply his energy elsewhere. It would be hard for him to hold a pencil or crayon, unless they could surgically remove his hand controls. Grade One was going to be a tough year for Buster!

Etymology: Win (be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious) & Nintendo (Video game system made by the Japanese Nintendo Co.) & Tendonitis (inflammation of a tendon due to over-use, such as in thumb, elbow, shoulder,etc)

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COMMENTS:

ecin - galwaywegian, 2009-10-02: 10:12:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: sim + drone

Sentence: The original diagnosis was acronymosis, but it became clear from his concentration on the console that he had simdrone brought on by extensive use of Sims for PS2, manifesting in a constant moaning about the characters and game commands accompanied by tics.

Etymology: Syndrome (a set of symptoms) + Sims (simulation video game) + drone (continuous noise)

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Created by: catgrin

Pronunciation: spaz-tweech

Sentence: After 18 hours playing WoW Jimmy'd entered a state of spaztwiich. He didn't even hear his girlfriend slam the door on the way out.

Etymology: spaz (spastic) + twitch + wii

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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: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: ver-ti-tyood

Sentence: Doug is on the last level of Moon Patrol. He is in serious vertitude, bro.

Etymology: Virtual, attitude

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Created by: Maureen

Pronunciation: de- sens - a - twitch

Sentence: Once that gameboy goes on his desensitwich condition becomes immediately apparent.

Etymology: From desensitized - to make less sensitve to external stimuli and twitch- to jerk suddenly.

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