Verboticisms

Created by: hvhtim

Pronunciation: GAME-gur

Sentence: I was full of gameger when my mom interrupted my verbotomization.

Etymology: game, anger

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: frust ro gaming

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Etymology: its the argh and the urgh and the gargh!

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Created by: neoss

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: nin ten don see

Sentence: Zelda was tired of Luigi's addiction to video games. He played them round the clock and his nintendoncy to avoid his work, family and other responsibilities, was what made her announce to him one day, "Good bye, Game Boy,Wii are so headed to divorce court!"

Etymology: Nintendo (Japanese interactive video game maker, part of a huge electronics conglomerate,which actually started in 1889 and has evolved into one of the 3 main video games makers) & Tendency (an inclination to do something;)

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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: artr

Pronunciation: ilektroumə

Sentence: Summer has not been good for Billy. After 3 straight days of video gaming, he is having a bad case of electrauma. His game of choice, Grand Theft Auto, has left him a virtual vidiot. Everything he picks up becomes a weapon. When he tried to stab his roommate with a toothbrush the attendants at his nursing home decided it was time to cut off his game privileges and get him to sleep.

Etymology: electronic (relating to or carried out using a computer or other electronic device) + trauma (emotional shock following a stressful event or a physical injury)

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COMMENTS:

vidiot - hilarious! Good word! - splendiction, 2009-07-27: 20:53:00

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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: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: hyp-er-wee-al-i-ty

Sentence: Mrs. Fudd found Elmer in a state of hyperwiiality when she returned from a visit to her parents and saw that he had been playing video games since she left and had not stopped to eat or sleep. "At least I don't have to do the dishes," she thought as she pulled the plug.

Etymology: hyperreality: blurring the lines of reality and fantasy as in video gaming or online virtual reality. Hyperreality tricks the consciousness into accepting artificially contrived stimulation instead a conscious emotional involvement + Wii: a video game system (Elmer Fudd -- a Looney Tunes cartoon character who couldn't pronounce the letter r in words and substituted the letter w instead)

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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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Created by: labareda

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