Verboticism: Callousnickoff

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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Blindism
Created by: squid
Pronunciation: blind is um
Sentence: the lady suffers from blindism because she thought the real mouse was a computer mouse.
Etymology: blind- cannot see ism- the obvious
Rubpetitive
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: rub-PET-eh-tiv
Sentence: Nigel's keyboard looked worse than a roadside diner sign from all the letters rubpetively worn off.
Etymology: rub + pet + (repet)itive
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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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 because of the constant keypetitive tapping, clicking and pushing required by the computer game.
Etymology: KEYPETITIVE - from KEY (keyboard) + REPETITIVE (repeated over and over)
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COMMENTS:
wow. i remember joysticks. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-17: 12:18:00
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Clickeroded
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: klĭk-ə-rō'-dĭd
Sentence: Like that spot on my keyboard spacebar, and the spot on my mouse button where I always click it, the buttons on the remote control for Uncle Bill's old TV were were noticeably clickeroded.
Etymology: clicker (Slang term for a remote control, or controlling device) + eroded (Latin, érōdere - "worn away by abrasion")
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)
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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Shinetalic
Created by: sipsoccer
Pronunciation: (shine-tal-lic)
Sentence: I see your mouse has a shinetalic spot on it from major usage.
Etymology: shine-bright,glows,shiny talic-part of metallic, which also means shiny.
Lapopecia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lap o peesh eeya
Sentence: Margo used her laptop 24-7. She took it everywhere with her...shopping;while in transit;waiting in line ups;at meals;watching tv;while visiting with people and heck, even at work. People thought she must have a very important position and could not miss a minute of contact with her office. In fact, Margo was addicted to on-line gambling and had used her laptop so much, that she had worn down all the surfaces of the keys and touchpad until her machine developed lapopecia. When her shrink saw that she was using her laptop during her therapy session, he immediately called for an intervention. He used a new treatment called a lapendectomy, where her laptop would be permanently removed. This procedure would not restore the surfaces on her laptop keys, but at least it would help staunch the fiscal hemmorraging to her bank account.
Etymology: Laptop (a portable computer small enough to use in your lap) & Alopecia (baldness;loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers or covering; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments)
Deteriorashine
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: də/ter/e/or/a/shīn
Sentence: Wendel was proud of the deteriorashine on his keyboard. To him, it was a sign of a hard worker. The fact that most of the printed letters on the keys were almost rubbed off equated to the many hours he spent clacking away. As he ran his hand over the top of his head, he beamed at the thought that heavy-duty use of his brain could also cause deteriorashine.
Etymology: deterioration (become progressively worse) + Shine (reflect light because clean or polished)
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COMMENTS:
great! - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-17: 11:53:00
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