Verboticism: Billfectmesbanging
DEFINITION: An often debilitating condition characterized by compulsive, repetitive and obsessive reading of product documentation and warranties.
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Manualmania
Created by: mgood
Pronunciation: man-u-al-ma-ni-a
Sentence: Man, he has a really bad case of manualmania!
Etymology: combined manual with mania
Reedovumit
Created by: RachelPhillipson2007
Pronunciation: Read Oh Voomit
Sentence: My sister reads all the time and sometimes she vomits from looking at the paper all the time. I think shes got Reedovumit!
Etymology: Reedo [reading obsessivley] + Vumit [disgusting vomiting every fortnight] = Reedovumit !
Circumdocutation
Created by: hanumanu
Pronunciation: sir-kum-dock-you-TAY-shun
Sentence: Must you obsess in your circumdocutation? Just sharpen the danged thing already!
Etymology: Like circulocution - talking in circles - this is reading instructions in an obsessively concentric way.
Cheechburnout
Created by: queeny
Pronunciation: Cheech-burn-out
Sentence: Chong burn out is way badder. You end up munching on the pencils like way before you sharpen them. Whoa,coulda been a prob.
Etymology:
Locohowism
Created by: scrawlspacer
Pronunciation: LO co how IZ um
Sentence: When my boyfriend buys a nifty new gadget, I might not see him for days. He has major locohowism.
Etymology: alcoholism + loco (crazy) + how (as in "how to")
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.
