Verboticisms

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: 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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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: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: in duh zone

Sentence: she started to put her clothes back on knowing there wasn't much hope of anything happening when he was induhzone

Etymology: in the zone, Duh.

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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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COMMENTS:

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: Alchemist

Pronunciation: wee-TOO-see

Sentence: When Brandon pops in Mario Party 8 and begins his crazy wiitusi, nothing is safe. His mom finally gave up and just removed all the remaining unbroken Hummels from the family room.

Etymology: wii (vid game) + watusi (the dance, not th e tribe). I am probably dating myself with this one...

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COMMENTS:

this is good! - wordmeister, 2007-03-16: 08:37:00

Hey, The Orlons are still around! http://www.theorlons.com/ - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-16: 12:48:00

man, I went groovin over there, I thought you meant the cylons-http://www.cylon.org/ - Alchemist, 2007-03-16: 14:07:00

DOH! WAH Watusi! THOSE orlons! I thought u were just interjecting a 60's era non-sequiter... - Alchemist, 2007-03-16: 15:53:00

Looks like Buck Rogers' outfits were crafted from Orlon. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-17: 04:55:00

No, I think he got them on Earth! - Alchemist, 2007-03-17: 06:23:00

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Created by: buck180

Pronunciation: e lek tra fryd

Sentence: Playing the game Johnny was so electrifried that he couldn't look away or drop the control.

Etymology: Electric - power source for any Wii, PS, or other vid-game. Added to ... Fried - as in burnt out, toasted, numb.

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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: 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: 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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