Verboticism: Hypermouseration
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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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
Clickitydip
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: kli-kit-ee-dip
Sentence: My son's mouse has already developed a clickitydip - he's either been wearing sandpaper gloves or playing Warcraft way too much.
Etymology: click it, dip
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COMMENTS:
clickitydip barbatrick - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-20: 14:18:00
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Blindism
Created by: squid
Pronunciation: blind is um
Sentence: the lady suffers from blindism because she thought the real mouse was a computer mouse.
Etymology: blind- cannot see ism- the obvious
Annoyputer
Created by: patrick12345
Pronunciation: anoi/puter
Sentence: He was searching google when his mouse stoped working for the 50th time he was very annoyputer
Etymology: annoying+part of a computer
Hypermouseration
Created by: mvandyke
Pronunciation: hyper-mouse-er-ation
Sentence: One could easily see the tell tale signs of 'hypermouseration' in Kathies work station.
Etymology:
Clickeroded
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: klĭk-ə-rō'-dĭd
Sentence: Like that spot on my keyboard spacebar, and the spot on my mouse button where I always click it, the buttons on the remote control for Uncle Bill's old TV were were noticeably clickeroded.
Etymology: clicker (Slang term for a remote control, or controlling device) + eroded (Latin, érōdere - "worn away by abrasion")
Clickpit
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: klick - pit
Sentence: I realized I was spending entirely too much time on-line playing those escape the room games when my 3 month old laptop had already developed a clickpit in the touch-pad.
Etymology: click -action of operating a mouse or touchpad + pit - small divot caused by repeated friction.
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COMMENTS:
It has a satisfying sound to it. I like it. - astorey, 2008-10-17: 11:55:00
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Geekpolish
Created by: bzav1
Pronunciation: geek + polish
Sentence: Judging by the geekpolish on Jimmy's laptop, he had been spending a bit too much time on Facebook.
Etymology: Not to be confused with my Eastern European roots (geek Polish)
Hardwarewear
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Hard + ware + ware
Sentence: Merril's heavy handed use of his keyboard and mouse created an abundance of hardwarewear, leaving worn spots on the mouse buttons and many of the keyboard keys blank.
Etymology: Hardware and wear
