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DEFINITION: A state of hyper-attentive focus combined with WBT (Whole Body Twitching) and IEE (Ignores Everything Else), which commonly afflicts video game players.
Verboticisms
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Autogamenchorea
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: au-to-gam-en-KOR-ee-ah
Sentence: Mike's autogamenchorea prevented him from hearing the timer on the pot stickers that were cooking on the stove and soon the apartment was filled with smoke.
Etymology: auto-(Greek: self, same, spontaneous; directed from within. Used as in autism). gamen (Old English: root of Game) -chorea (Greek: dance; in medicine, it is used to denote a nervous disorder)
Obwiiviousness
Created by: trioptimum
Pronunciation: ob-WEE-vee-uhs-ness
Sentence: Wil had to be jolted out of his obwiiviousness by a friend, who grabbed him and politely pointed out the piercing sound of the fire alarm.
Etymology: obliviousness + wii (I hate every single one of the thousands of 'wii' puns that have plagued the games industry for the past few months, so please make me pay for my hypocrisy by not voting for me)
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COMMENTS:
I had to look up what Wii was. So your Wii-ism seems pretty fresh to me! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-13: 07:59:00
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Braindropped
Created by: StigAllan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Please do sit still you braindropped maniac.
Etymology:
Gamernaut
Created by: japfilsk8er
Pronunciation: gamer not
Sentence: keeps his momentum going and stay focus to the game
Etymology: game and juggernaut
Wiitardation
Created by: ScrabbledEgg
Pronunciation: wee-tar-day-shun
Sentence: His video game addiction started off slowly with a mild case of nintendonitis, progressed to acute halotosis (hay-low-toe-sis), and ended in complete wiitardation.
Etymology: wii + retardation
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COMMENTS:
that's a winner - FreeToys, 2007-09-13: 13:20:00
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Pacmannerism
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: pack-MANner-ism
Sentence: Colby's pacmannerism had worsened considerably since the 1980s. It had evolved into captaincomicalysis, but it seemed he always had a frogger in his throat.
Etymology: Pacman + mannerism
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COMMENTS:
I'm old enough to remember Pacman but I had to look up what Wii was! lol - Scrumpy, 2007-09-13: 07:53:00
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Lobotomwii
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: lah-bot-om-wee
Sentence: his lobotomwii was destroying his social life
Etymology: lobotomy, wii
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COMMENTS:
Catchy! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-13: 07:50:00
Catchy yes, but try saying it when you're drunk... or have just spent ten hours playing Half-Life 2. - Nettle, 2007-09-13: 09:42:00
I'd go for Lobotowii - Batavier, 2007-10-05: 10:30:00
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Twiiking
Created by: torpid
Pronunciation: tweeking
Sentence: After buzzing Billy's apartment five times, the pizza deliveryman returned home, not realizing that Billy was there, but twiiking, and thus unable to hear the doorbell.
Etymology: tweak/tweaking (meth and other drug user's hyperactivity) + wii
Comathroes
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: ko-ma-THROWS
Sentence: When Roxie went into spazombic hyper-attentive focusing whilst creating a verboticism, Bob was worried that her condition might turn into svitustrance. Friends thought that she might be marcelvish. But, as her comathroes continued unabated, all agreed that some sort of cerebrawl was going on in her mind.
Etymology: Coma: profound insensibilty, stupor & throes:spasm, convulsion.(with the "math" needed for hyper-attentive focusing.) Svitustrance- pun on St Vitus Dance. Marcelvish: uniname that combines elements of Marcel(Marceau) & Elvis.
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COMMENTS:
so many good words!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-13: 11:59:00
Great sentence and etymology! Really unique word! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-13: 21:04:00
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Comments:
OZZIEBOB - 2007-09-13: 20:07:00
Suddenly I'm become pixi-led. Nice word.