Verboticism: Symbiotech
DEFINITION: v. To be so dependent on computers and other gadgets, that you cannot communicate or even think without them. n. A person who cannot communicate, or even think, without using an electronic device.
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Dumbphoned
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: dum foned
Sentence: After leaving his phone at the bar last night Doug couldn't even call his own mother. He was completely dumbphoned,
Etymology: dumbfounded + phone
Brainary
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: brain-a-ree
Sentence: Being technically minded, Nerdia, could really only process names and addresses if they were stored digitally in her smartphone. She was the perfect example of a brainary.
Etymology: brain + binary
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COMMENTS:
That Nerdia! She really is one zero ... - emdeejay, 2009-04-30: 02:15:00
That Nerdia is a brainiac! - Nosila, 2009-04-30: 18:56:00
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Technobsess
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: teck-no-ob-sess
Sentence: Of course all the slow walking people ahead were slowing her pace down. There should be a law she thought, all those technobsessed people texting while walking should get a ticket, especially the ones stopped dead in their tracks. Those who particularly can't spell and walk at the same time. These are the same people who cannot chew gum and walk at the same time.
Etymology: techno (short for technology as in current electronic gadgets) + obsess (to dominate, besiege, control)
Yahooked
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ya hookt
Sentence: He was so yahooked that he failed to see that her Mozillas were so big, they'd have googled his eyebrowsers!
Etymology: Yahoo (Internet browser; also not very intelligent or interested in culture) & Hooked (as in addicted to a drug)
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COMMENTS:
funny sentence - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-30: 12:48:00
yes I agree. - splendiction, 2009-04-30: 23:08:00
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Symbiotech
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: sim - bee - ot - tek
Sentence: Jeffrey had a symtiotech relationship with his laptop and PDA. He had a difficult time keeping track of his life, making plans or even communicating if he did not have one of them nearby.
Etymology: symbiotic (The intimate living together of two dissimilar organisms, frequently (but not always) in a mutually beneficial relationship), tech (abbreviation for technology)
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COMMENTS:
clever - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-30: 12:47:00
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Gismaddiction
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: GIZ-auh-dik-shun
Sentence: Being smitten with a very passionate gizmadiction, Warren could not pass up any opportunity to fiddle with technological toys or devices and often made a complete fool of himself as he did not have a thorough understanding of some of the systems and applications he often used.
Etymology: Blend of 'gizmo' (A mechanical device or part whose name is forgotten or unknown; a gadget) and 'addiction' (Compulsive physiological and psychological need)
Cellurabot
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: cell-u-rab-bot
Sentence: Mary was so fanatical about her blackberry that her friends were becoming concerned that it was controlling her. They couldn't understand how a grown woman could be so gaga for a gadget. Undoubtedly, she was becoming a cellurabot, unable to think or speak without gazing at the screen. One day a coworker saw her texting furiously. "What are you doing?" she asked. "I'm texting you a question," Mary replied. Her friend grabbed the phone away from her and shouted, "Cellurabot, texts are for kids."
Etymology: (from an old cereal commercial that featured a cartoon rabbit: "Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids") cellular: cell phone/cell network + rabid: fanatical, extreme + bot: (short for robot) an infected computer that becomes a zombie under the control of a master computer
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COMMENTS:
Cute sentence and so true sadly of many people! - Nosila, 2009-04-30: 19:00:00
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Syndrotechnophilin
Created by: someperson101
Pronunciation: sɪndrotɛknofɪlən
Sentence: The syndrotechnophilin usually doesn't get out of bed, but it served by his/her phone (by ordering pizza) and will lay by the door and wait for pizza.
Etymology: syndrome + technophile
Tweetwit
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: tweeee twiht
Sentence: They were the perfect couple, he was a tweetwit, she was a tweetwitterher
Etymology: tweet, twit
Cyberspaced
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: sy-bur-spaysd
Sentence: She was google-eyed and about to crash. She was so cyberspaced that she couldn't remember her own name without checking her iphone's contact list. She needed a nap to reboot.
Etymology: CYBERSPACE (the electronic medium of computer networks, in which online communication takes place) + SPACED (to become stupified or disoriented from or as if from a drug.)
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COMMENTS:
another great word and the sentence always woes me over - DrWebster111, 2009-05-01: 18:52:00
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