Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: vidēəsingkrəsē

Sentence: Jill hates holiday weekends. After a three-day binge on the Xbox her husband exhibits his most obnoxious vidiosyncrasies, bouncing off the walls, pretending to shoot, stab or blow her up. It’s all she can do to get him in his suit and off to work. It scares her sometimes knowing that he is the CEO at a nuclear power plant.

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

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Created by: chris

Pronunciation: con-soh-lie-tus

Sentence: Bloodshot eyes...ragged breathing....sweaty palms...yup, Nigel clearly had a nasty dose of consolitis

Etymology: console + -itis (suffix meaning inflammation, irritation)

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Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: nin ten done

Sentence: Seven hours of gaming left them nintendone. After a short break they'd get over to Blake's basement where four more hours at the controllers would leave them xbaked.

Etymology: From nintendo and done.

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: gay-mer-tizz-ee

Sentence: She knew he was in a gamertizzy when he started putting a noose around his neck.

Etymology: gamer (slang for video game addict) + tizzy (excited, in a dither or flap)

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Created by: logan260

Pronunciation: vid-e-o-path

Sentence: He's a great guy and likes gaming but tends to get videopathic after a couple of hours.

Etymology: videopath...i.e. psychopath, sociopath etc.

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Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: vid/ee/oh/vex/a/shun

Sentence: Listen Harry, I know you get a real kick out of roaming around your apocalyptic world on a turbo-charged white steed whomping all manner of ghouls and gremlins, but please control your "videovexation", or I shall have to call 911!

Etymology: video + vexation (what some might say is a lethal combination of words with unintended consequences)

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation:

Sentence: My inability to move to the next level in the game caused a severe case of nintension.

Etymology: Nintendo + tension

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ink on sow lab ell

Sentence: without his games console he was inconsoleable

Etymology: console inconsolable

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Created by: ChrisCarrk

Pronunciation: game-ent-a-losis

Sentence: He had a severe case of gamentalosis after playing 7 sraight hours on the computer.

Etymology: game+mental

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: wee-zhure

Sentence: It's no use pretending to wheeze. You're such a drama queen. I don't for one minute think you're having a wiizure. The power has been off all morning.

Etymology: wii + seizure as opposed to a wiifit :)

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