Verboticism: Pushsessive
DEFINITION: v. To push a push-button that has just been pushed by someone else because you "need" to push it yourself; common at elevators, traffic lights, and family meetings. n. A person who "needs" to push their own buttons.
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Necessivate
Created by: Ellemorpheus
Pronunciation: Ness-ess-ih-vay-t
Sentence: He necessivated every time his girlfriend pushed the window button.
Etymology: Necess-Necessity ivate- activate
Pushkinitis
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: push/kin/i/tis
Sentence: The group originally met to read Pushkin poetry but soon pushkinitis ensued and the confused members began pushing around their families (kin)
Etymology: pushkin ( Russian poet) + itis
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COMMENTS:
I hate it at poetry readings when pushy people show up. - Stevenson0, 2007-04-10: 09:38:00
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Egopress
Created by: zrotv
Pronunciation: ē-gŏp'rĕs
Sentence: It was clear that I'd hit the 'up button' for the elevator as it was indicated by the light. But when the man in the suit approached he gave it a firm egopress and shot me a knowing and condescending smile insinuating that it wouldn't have worked if he hadn't come and saved me from my un-elevated limbo.
Etymology: ego + press
Pushsessive
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: push + sess + ive
Sentence: That guy came up and hit the elevator call button right after I did, even though he SAW me do it! Did he think I didn't do it *right*?
Etymology: push + posessive (or obsessive, if you prefer)
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Mindtwist
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: mind twist
Sentence: doing things you need to because you have got a mindtwist.
Etymology: twisted mind.
Elevatorgasm
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: eləvātərgazəm
Sentence: It all started when, as a young girl, her father would allow her to push the button on the elevator at his office. She still gets a charge, an elevatorgasm, when she is able to push her own button.
Etymology: elevator (a platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different floors or levels) + orgasm (a climax of sexual excitement)
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COMMENTS:
lolol cracked me up!! - libertybelle, 2011-03-16: 08:47:00
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Digiredoo
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: dih-jih-ree-dew
Sentence: The button was lit. Clearly, someone had already pushed it. So why did I feel the need to digiredoo?
Etymology: digit, redo, and didgeridoo (An aboriginal wind instrument that has absolutely nothing to do with this word.)
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COMMENTS:
Of course if you restrained yourself, that would be digiredidnt! - pinwheel, 2007-04-10: 07:20:00
One of my favourite entertainments is a magic trick using an Aboriginal wind instrument - prestididgeriduation - petaj, 2007-04-10: 07:23:00
Digging Rolf's wobble board meself, sport. All together now "tie me kangaroo down, sport, tie me kangaroo down". - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-10: 07:46:00
Aw geez. Another song to get stuck in my head. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-10: 08:21:00
So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde, and that's it hangin' on the shed. - Osomatic, 2007-04-11: 17:13:00
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Pushcentric
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: push - sent - trik
Sentence: Lolita was so pushcentric that she just went nuts if anyone else pushed the buttons. In the elevator, if someone else got there first, she pushed it too. It became complicated if she was playing a game where someone had to hit a timer button. When she was at her mom's house for dinner and mom hit the oven timer, Lolita pushed it too. She ended up in Therapy and diagnosed as a buttonphrenic with a hint of repressed anger...
Etymology: egocentric (selfcentered, push, centric (centered on)
Plargitic
Created by: nuemj88
Pronunciation: plar-jit-ik
Sentence: That is MY plargitic button.
Etymology: Plarg - taken from plagiarize. Because you copy them when you push the button.
Analpush
Created by: Pandora
Pronunciation: anal-push
Sentence: Although the crosswalk button was already lit, Jane noticed that the next man who arrived at the corner analpushed the button anyway.
Etymology: anal (obsessive) + push