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DEFINITION: v. To obsess over, and fantasize about electronic gadgets even though you can never figure out how they actually work. n. A beautiful but useless gadget.
Bombtronic
Top verboticism of the day created by mweinmann
Pronunciation: bom - tron - ik
Sentence: Bernice's new bombtronic device failed miserably as a phone or as a browser either. It looked cool, sounded cool but she could not make or receive phone calls or navigate to any web sites. None of the games that came on it worked well either. She just liked to carry it around, show it off and hear all the cool ring tones.
Etymology: bomb (to fail, blow up), electronic
Created by: mweinmann.
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Enigtronic: /en-ig-tron-nick/ Mabel spent 2 clueless hours fiddling with her new cell phone before she realized the enigtronic device had to slide open. That was after she broke the phone in two trying to flip in open. Etymology: enigma + electronic Created by: libertybelle.
Gizbo: /giz-bo/ His latest gizbo was a beautiful oak stand with a built in light to hold and display his pet rock. Etymology: gizmo + bimbo Created by: Stevenson0.
Comments:
a pet rock concert.. - Nosila, 2009-12-30: 01:52:00
Pobsessit: /Pob Ses It/ "When I saw the new Lenovo Lephone it wasn't a case of I wanted it, it was more like I wanted to pobsessit" Etymology: Possess + Obsess + It = pobsessit Possess - to have as belonging to one; have as object; own: to possess a house and a car. Obsess - to dominate or preoccupy the thoughts, feelings, or desires of (a person); beset, trouble, or haunt persistently or abnormally: Suspicion obsessed him It - the cool gadget Created by: sanssouci.
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Today's definition was suggested by shutz. Thank you shutz! ~ James
Read about Jabberwocky's Garden of Verbal Delights in Verbotoweek.
pronunciation: uh-GOG-uh-tek........... sentence:Poor old Ira Gobler was AGOGATECH at his designer's latest device.He was so AGOGATECH that he let the factory's flaccid finances flow into a virtual vat of vapors while he thoughtfully tinkered and tweaked the tin toys and gamboled among the gizmoes generated just beyond the grounded iron gates of the fabrication facility...Someday...he would write an operator's manual...................... etymology: Agog+at+Technology=aGOGatech!
Sometimes my "comments" seem to appear in the wrong places....if only some clever soul would invent a GIZBO to prevent that.
....my brain hurts.....
Today's definition was suggested by shutz. Thank you shutz. ~ James