Verboticism: Clickeroded
DEFINITION: n., A wear mark, or shiny spot, which appears on a heavily used computer touch-pad, mouse or keyboard. v., To wear down or erode through repetitive clicking, tapping or poking.
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Padtina
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: pad/teena
Sentence: What a lovely padtina you have on your desk remarked a colleague.
Etymology: pad + patina
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COMMENTS:
Great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-20: 16:45:00
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Hardwear
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: hard-wayr
Sentence: Simon's friends referred to his keyboard, mouse and mousepad as his hardwear because of the excessive wear shown on them by his overly rough use.
Etymology: Blend of 'hard' and 'wear', a play on the word 'hardware'.
Fingerbald
Created by: ooogle
Pronunciation: Fing-ger-ball-d
Sentence: Can I get that fingerbald repainted too?
Etymology: n. Finger-Things on the end of your hands Bald-No hair Fingerbald-The shiny spot on the middle of the mousepad when you have been scrolling too much.
Erodency
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: i-ROHD-uh n-see
Sentence: Bob lived in constant state of click-button erodency with an abrashining mouse and a repitritious keyboard.
Etymology: Blend of "E" for a system of world-wide electronic communication;as in email etc., RODENT: from Mod.L. rodentia, the order name, from L. rodentem (nom. rodens), prp. of rodere "to gnaw, eat away," like a "mouse" and CY: state or condition.
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COMMENTS:
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-17: 11:52:00
Good one!! - TJayzz, 2008-10-17: 14:17:00
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Moniterosion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The price you pay for being on everyone's e-mail address book is that you are vulnerable to moniterosion.
Etymology:
Erodentia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: e rode dent sha
Sentence: When Gabby used her computer sll day long, year in, year out, it showed definite signs of erodentia. The poor mouse finally squeaked,croaked and died.
Etymology: e=electronic; Erode (wear away) and Rodentia (small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis)
Crapdoo
Created by: jeremy21
Pronunciation: /crap-doo/
Sentence: That dude crapdooed on the wrong person. Crapdooing is not the way to go
Etymology: Old american- coming from some old english
Shinetalic
Created by: sipsoccer
Pronunciation: (shine-tal-lic)
Sentence: I see your mouse has a shinetalic spot on it from major usage.
Etymology: shine-bright,glows,shiny talic-part of metallic, which also means shiny.
Abrashine
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: uh-BREY-shahyn
Sentence: Bob lived in canescrapent, click-button cyberia with mice that abrashined, remote controls with repitritus and gnawhite-spotted screens.
Etymology: Abrashine:abrasion:scraped spot or area & shine 2.Repitritus (repitition & detritus) 3. Gnawhite:(gnaw: eat away & white) 4. Cyberia:from "Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace" by Doug Rushkoff. 5.Canescrapent:greyish white & scrape.
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COMMENTS:
poor Bob, what a grind - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-20: 14:17:00
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Rubpetitive
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: rub-PET-eh-tiv
Sentence: Nigel's keyboard looked worse than a roadside diner sign from all the letters rubpetively worn off.
Etymology: rub + pet + (repet)itive
