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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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Gadgetation
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: gaj-it-a-shun
Sentence: After 12 hours of Quake, John's whole body vibrated with advanced gadgetation.
Etymology: gadget + agitation
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COMMENTS:
excellent! - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-13: 11:56:00
I'm not certain why - but I'm locked in. Top word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-13: 20:16:00
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Fraystation
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: fray/stay/shun
Sentence: The squeels and the jumping meant that he had entered the dangerous zone of fraystation
Etymology: fray (frazzle) + station (sphere) + playstation
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COMMENTS:
Has a great ring to it! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-13: 07:14:00
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Vautism
Created by: duluth
Pronunciation: voh-tism
Sentence: Vautism is a brain development disorder characterized by impairments in social interaction and communication, and restricted and repetitive behavior, occurring at any age and often induced by environmental interactions with computer-based games.
Etymology: The term is a derivation of autism with the "v" at the beginning signifying the video game interaction factor.
Videogameism
Created by: Janbo
Pronunciation:
Sentence: A number of men showed signs of videogameism.
Etymology:
Pixelepsy
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: piks-uhl-ep-see
Sentence: He didn't smell the pot roast, nor hear his mother calling him for dinner - David was obviously on the computer suffering from a bout of pixelepsy.
Etymology: pixel, epilepsy
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COMMENTS:
I like it. It particularly conveys the Whole Body Twitching which I completely failed to incorporate into my own word. - Nettle, 2007-09-13: 10:08:00
Great word! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-13: 16:38:00
Suddenly I become pixi-led. Nice word - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-13: 20:08:00
Me likey. Funny, descriptive, sounds real.Goes with the graphic quite nicely as well. - ScrabbledEgg, 2007-09-14: 23:51:00
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Focolation
Created by: Nettle
Pronunciation: fo-ko-LAY-shun
Sentence: Ivan spent the morning in a state of extreme focolation, attempting to finish the new Zelda game before any of his friends.
Etymology: Focus + isolation
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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Watasadik
Created by: leomar
Pronunciation: watas-adik
Sentence: a word that shows a "state of hyper-attentive focus = ADIK" with the "IEE (Ignores Everything Else)= WATAS"
Etymology: the watas adik
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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Gamernaut
Created by: japfilsk8er
Pronunciation: gamer not
Sentence: keeps his momentum going and stay focus to the game
Etymology: game and juggernaut
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
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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Hafowhobytyigevel
Created by: staggolee
Pronunciation: HAF-o-woh-bih-TIE-g'v'l
Sentence: OMG--I'M HAFOWHOBYTYGEVEL!!!
Etymology: adj. origin unk.
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COMMENTS:
Unsubstantiated rumors accredit this as a Bushism. - staggolee, 2007-09-13: 00:33:00
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Wiiggle
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: wee/ig/gle
Sentence: He transforms completely and falls into the state of wiiggle when he plays his video games.
Etymology: wii + wiggle
Leizure
Created by: loofarama
Pronunciation: lee-sure
Sentence: his leizure was overwhelming him. i even tried hurting him, but it didn't work
Etymology: leisure + seizure
Xboccupation
Created by: Pseudonym
Pronunciation: ex-bock-u-pay-shun
Sentence: "Sorry about the accident; I forgot to go during my xboccupation."
Etymology: xbox + occupation
Vidgamerstate
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: vid-geym-ur-steyt
Sentence: Ritalin was the only medication that curbed his vidgamerstating behaviour and allowed him to sleep the night. It also halted his evening ritual of tearing apart his bed and using its wooden pieces to beat holes in the wall.
Etymology: vid (short for video)+ gamer + state (as in a particular condition of mind or feeling)
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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Notential
Created by: FreeToys
Pronunciation: no - ten' - shul
Sentence: I'm sorry Mrs. Jones, since Bobby has been unable to grasp anything but joystick skills, we're afraid he has notential.
Etymology: no / potential
Kalinualeach
Created by: doig1394
Pronunciation: ka-leen-ew-ul-eech
Sentence: that kid at the park was totally kaliualeach
Etymology: ....
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:
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)
Comments:
OZZIEBOB - 2007-09-13: 20:07:00
Suddenly I'm become pixi-led. Nice word.