Verboticism: Manumania
DEFINITION: An often debilitating condition characterized by compulsive, repetitive and obsessive reading of product documentation and warranties.
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Ignoraphobia
Created by: w5lf9s
Pronunciation: Ig-norah-foubia
Sentence: Look at all these User's Manuals. He must have a bad case of ignoraphobia
Etymology: ignorare (lat.) to "not know" + phobos (greek) strong, irrational fear of something
Producrastinal
Created by: alecstevenson
Pronunciation: Pro-duh-cras-tin-al
Sentence: He was so producrastinal about he stereo that it was still in bubble wrap after 3 weeks.
Etymology: Product + Procastination
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COMMENTS:
Alec, you are very funny! - wordmeister, 2006-10-19: 22:10:00
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Instruchosis
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: in-struh-kO-sis
Sentence: His instruchosis left him unable to assemble even the simplest flat-pack furniture.
Etymology: From 'instructions' + 'psychosis'
Knownot
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: no - not
Sentence: She's such a knownot that she things she can't figure anything out without reading directions on EVERYTHING....
Etymology: to feel unknowledgable about anything without reading all documentation on it.
Guidenseekindrome
Created by: zebrahdh
Pronunciation: guide-in-seek-in-drome
Sentence: People with guidenseekindrome are the reason Poptarts have cooking instructions, and a label saying "DO NOT PUT PACKAGE IN MICROWAVE!"
Etymology: Derived from hidenseekindrome, which we all know is the condition of people that suck at hide-and-seek.
Manualoticulus
Created by: leaffan001
Pronunciation: man-u-ol-tick-ul-us
Sentence: Wanting to know everything.
Etymology: From the english word manual.
Docuddiction
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: doc-u-dik-shun
Sentence: It started with a simple desire to understand how things work, but it quickly developed into a complete obsession and then a severe docuddiction dependency.
Etymology: document and addiction
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COMMENTS:
"exsiting players" - Players who are fed up with the rules and decide to stage a sit-in before they leave for good :-) - petaj, 2007-02-09: 04:54:00
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Warrentyism
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: war ren tee ism
Sentence: By re-reading the directions to the alarm clock the thirtith time she fell into warrentyism
Etymology: warrenty - guarantee of goodness in a product ism - makes it a noun
Ocdvd
Created by: vetmommy2
Pronunciation: "Oh-Cee-Dee-Vee-Dee"
Sentence: Don't be so OCDVD, put down the instructions and just turn the thing ON!!
Etymology: from the DSM-III Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and DVD- digital video disc.
Necessareread
Created by: deviant
Pronunciation: Ness-ess-air-ree-reed
Sentence: After half an hour of box examination, instruction reading and rereading, his necessarereadic tendancys struck again and he went back to examing the box of the 4 piece jigsaw.
Etymology: Necessary conjoined with reread