Verboticism: Paranerdia
DEFINITION: v. To look up your own name on a search engine. n., The practice of using a search engine as a tool for self-realization, or perhaps just self-gratification, by repeatedly searching for information about yourself.
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Yahooyoohoo
Created by: bananabender
Pronunciation: yaa-hu-yu-hu
Sentence: He thought he was "somebody" until he yahooyoohooed on Yahoo!, google and every other search engine he could find, only to receive each time the reply "yahooyouwhowho???". He's in therapy now.
Etymology: YAHOO: search engine, exclamation of glee. YOOHOO: is somebody there?, calling out to get somebody's attention.
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COMMENTS:
Nice ring and zing! Whew-hoo! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-23: 17:59:00
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Googlewacked
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: goo ghul waakd
Sentence: Jeremy was so googlewacked, he began grabbing the phonebook and Googling other people named Jeremy.
Etymology: Google (popular search engine) + wacked (crazy, obsessed)
Websturbation
Created by: sharktrager
Pronunciation: web-stir-BAY-shun
Sentence: Nothing beats sitting back in a big office chair and indulging in some serious websturbation now and again.
Etymology: From Web and Masturabation cleverly melded together in a seamless fashion.
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COMMENTS:
Lol. Flippin' hilarious! - scrink, 2008-01-23: 09:43:00
YES! YES! - scrabbelicious, 2008-01-23: 11:14:00
Yikes! What were you thinking? - silveryaspen, 2008-01-23: 17:52:00
Escuse me, waitress? I'll have whatever scrabbelicious is having... Good word — very, uh, stimulating. - Tigger, 2008-01-24: 02:03:00
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Googlego
Created by: vmalcolm
Pronunciation: /gugligeu/
Sentence: The new practice of googlego is the last trend. They say: If you don't appear, you don't exist.
Etymology: GOOGLEGO. From Google + Ego
Whoamikidian
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: Hoo-am-i-keed-e-an
Sentence: Carlos was a somebody, at least in his own mind. He was going make sure there was a place for him in cyberspace. He was a bit of a whoamikidian. If the truth be telth, he was a bit silly and had a lot of time on his hands for whoamikiding.
Etymology: who am i? old DOS command + kidding (hood winking or telling a white lie) (perhaps to oneself) + comedian (person with comedic sence) + (bookended by) wikipedia (an on-line user generated information source)
Selfgooglefication
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: self/googl/fi/cay/shun
Sentence: It gave him such selfgooglefication to google himself on the internet that he developed a google giggle and sore fingertips.
Etymology: self-gratification + google
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COMMENTS:
Sounds kind of kinky. - Mustang, 2008-11-14: 07:03:00
I'm sure there is a self-help group for that somewhere! Good Word... - Nosila, 2008-11-14: 21:54:00
Did he succumb to goo, goo-googly eyes like Barney - OZZIEBOB, 2008-11-16: 04:53:00
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Wikineedia
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: wick - i - knee- dee - yah (emphasis on the I need)
Sentence: Jerome often displayed a wikineedia type behavior to check for his name on every sight he went to.
Etymology: wikipedia + i need
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COMMENTS:
Great one. - Nuwanda, 2008-11-14: 11:07:00
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Narcisstalk
Created by: grohldberg12
Pronunciation: (Nar // sih //stahk)
Sentence: Initially out of curiousity, John, the 43 year-old carpenter, soon became absorbed with narcisstalking himself; spending hours upon hours discovering his most personal information.
Etymology: Narcissistic / Stalk
Mesearch
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈmisɚtʃ/ /MEE-surch/
Sentence: As I have seventeen different online identities, doing mesearch is quite time consuming.
Etymology: from "me" + "search" (reminiscent of "research")
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COMMENTS:
Short and clever ... better than ever! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-23: 18:07:00
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Tagogle
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: tah gawg uhl
Sentence: Tag, the teenager, was at that stage where he was such an egonormous (enormous ego) he tagogled his name, and all his zone names, daily!
Etymology: Combination of tag, ogle, google. Tag - synonymous with name. Ogle - an intense looking. Google - the web word for an internet search.
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COMMENTS:
Welcome back, Silveryaspen! - Nosila, 2008-11-18: 20:42:00
Welcome back, Silveryaspen! - Nosila, 2008-11-18: 20:42:00
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