Verboticism: Clickpit
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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Compubuff
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: kuhm-pyoo-buhf
Sentence: She compubuffed her keyboard so bright and shiny that she could almost she her reflection in each key.
Etymology: computer + buff (as in shine)
Clickopecia
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: klikəpēshēə
Sentence: It’s good for Bill that he’s a touch typist. He has worn most of the letters off of the keys on his keyboard. His mouse has a bad case of clickopecia, a bald spot caused by excessive clicking.
Etymology: click (an act of pressing a mouse button) + alopecia (the partial or complete absence of hair from areas of the body where it normally grows; baldness)
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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Plastastroke
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: pla-sta-stroke
Sentence: Computerina has a shiny plastastroke on her keyboard and mouse. She constantly rubbed her mouse in one spot until it was bald and shiny.
Etymology: A play on the words...Plastic and Stroke.
Mouseketear
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: mouse/keh/tare
Sentence: Sally was so busy scrolling through ebay that she didn't notice that the mousekewear had swiftly become a mouseketear. Now she'd have to go back to WaltMart to pick up another one.
Etymology: mouse + tear (rip) + mouseketeer
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COMMENTS:
Love it! - TJayzz, 2008-10-17: 06:41:00
Very nice - OZZIEBOB, 2008-10-19: 00:34:00
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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.
Keypetitive
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: kee/pet/i/tiv
Sentence: Because she didn't own a joystick, the letters 's' and 'l' disappeared from her keyboard by the constant keypetitive clicking required by the computer game.
Etymology: key + repetitive
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COMMENTS:
nice - patrick12345, 2007-11-20: 15:37:00
Very good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-20: 16:38:00
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Boursoflypord
Created by: garythesnail
Pronunciation: bor-SO-FLY-POORD
Sentence: Felix had many boursoflypords on his keyboard.
Etymology: french 'boursouflure' for blister, + type + keyboard
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
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)
