Verboticism: Orbnit
DEFINITION: v. To hover near, or directly on top of, a person who is busy doing something else, in order to force them to immediately surrender their full attention. n. A person who invades other people's private spaces and uses the social discomfort to demand attention.
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Closedistraction
Created by: SpringSteel
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The man had a closedistraction with the president
Etymology:
Philpop
Created by: mwgloe21
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Jane was a philpopper, wanting people to constantly talk to and be near her.
Etymology: phil-love pop-people
Peraptagregulous
Created by: Mwahaha
Pronunciation: per-rapt-a-gr-egg-u-lous
Sentence: Steven was so desperate to be apart of the Sara's group that he peraptagreguloused their party that night and wouldn't leave Sara alone.
Etymology: per-wrongly+rapt-to seize+greg-the flock/herd+ulous-tending to
Pestivaggressive
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: PEST iv a gress iv
Sentence: She stared into his eyes, lay sideways over his keyboard, pestivaggresively, in an effort to get a quick answer.
Etymology: From pest and aggressive - a variation of passive aggresssive. The inflicted feel aggressively pestered by those who persistently invade personal space to get attention.
Mousekesteer
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: mouse/ke/stere
Sentence: Our new IT manager is a mousekesteer and constantly hovers over anyone trying to figure out any computer problem.
Etymology: mouse + steer + mouseketeer
Tarryorist
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: tary or ist
Sentence: Jim was a very busy man. He worked hard at work and when he came home, he did some more work from home. He was usually plugged into his laptop, his cell phone and his Blackberry. But today he worked even harder than usual. He was driven and focussed on results. The only fly in his corporate ointment was his wife, Marcia. She was being a particularly annoying, demanding tarryorist today. She lingered around waiting for him to get off his phone and pouted, lollygagged, lingered, loitered and tried to distract him. She whined and pulled on his clothes and tried every trick up her sleeve to get him to stop working today. The harder he tried to ignore her, the even harder she tried to get his attention. He knew it must seem childish to an onlooker for him to keep pretending he was indispensible to his job and for her to keep acting so overbearing. But he had his reasons...two of them. Yes, his in-laws-from-hell were due to arrive at any moment for their monthly 2 week visit from out of town. He was just trying to put off Marcia's acts of tarryorism for as long as humanly possible. In the battle of wills, he was about to become a prisoner of war, without the benefits of the terms of the Geneva Convention.
Etymology: tarry (be near or hang about or wait around) & terrorist ( formidable person who uses terror inspiring methods or coercion to get what they want)
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COMMENTS:
Clever blend. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-12: 03:02:00
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Orbnit
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: orb-nit
Sentence: I tried to verbotomize, but Mark was being an orbnit, so I couldn't think of a decent word.
Etymology: orbit, nit (the egg of a parasitic insect)
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COMMENTS:
great blend - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-11: 13:11:00
Nice and neat. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-12: 02:33:00
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Annoyaholic
Created by: ErikLarson
Pronunciation: Annoy-o-holic
Sentence: This girl that's next to me is an annoyaholic.
Etymology: Annoy- wont leave me alone aholic- addicted
Focusurper
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: foe-cus-err-per
Sentence: half way through my phone call my work cooleague focusurped me.
Etymology: focus, usurper
Persnoy
Created by: pieceof314
Pronunciation: per-snoi
Sentence: Would you please, Helen, for Heaven's sake, please stop trying to persnoy me to death? Your neediness and attention getting is getting in the way of my enjoying life!
Etymology: per, from perservere; annoy
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COMMENTS:
Interesting word. Don't know why, but your word brings to mind the controversial book, by Philip Roth, later made into film, "Portnoy's Complaint!" - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-12: 03:00:00
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