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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.
Verboticisms
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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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Hardwarewear
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Hard + ware + ware
Sentence: Merril's heavy handed use of his keyboard and mouse created an abundance of hardwarewear, leaving worn spots on the mouse buttons and many of the keyboard keys blank.
Etymology: Hardware and wear
Rubburnished
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: rəbbərnishd
Sentence: Allan never was a touch typist. His life became that much more difficult when he discovered that his heavy use had rubburnished the printed letters off the keys on his keyboard. What he has saved by not replacing the keyboard he has spent on sharpie markers.
Etymology: rub (move one*s hand or a cloth repeatedly to and fro on the surface of something with firm pressure) + burnished (polish something, esp. metal by rubbing) a distant cousin of rug burn
Scuffleboard
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: skuff-ul-bord
Sentence: his penchant for using the W A S D keys to control pacman were resulting in a serious case of scuffleboard
Etymology: scuff, key board, shuffleboard
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COMMENTS:
missed this one yesterday - very funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-21: 06:02:00
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Moniterosion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The price you pay for being on everyone's e-mail address book is that you are vulnerable to moniterosion.
Etymology:
Wornographic
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: worn/u/graf/ic
Sentence: Once again Louise went to bed alone. Hugh had already been on the computer for two hours, and when she announced she was going to bed, with the hopes that he would join her, he only said, "Sleep tight my little raggamuffin." She had no idea what his facination with that machine was. She did NOT find it so intriguing. Other than a few emails from the Ladies Senior Bingo Extravaganzas, not much else interested her on that damn machine. Every "day after" Hugh spent most of the night online, the keyboard letters seemed to be even MORE faded, making it hard for Louise to answer Blanche over on 62nd Avenue. She was not a "by memory typist," but instead a "two finger pecker." Yes, Hughes pleasures had left their keyboard AND mouse, in an unsightly wornographic state.
Etymology: Do I really need to explain?? *giggle*
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COMMENTS:
wish I'd thought of that - very funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-17: 12:00:00
Good one, Lumie! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-17: 12:02:00
Wow! You guys are quick! I was just finishing up my editing of typos and things! Yeah...Hugh...reminds me of my sister's son, who is now 23 but was about 13 at the time...she would be in bed, and he was STILL on the computer. When she would shout from her bedroom, "You still on that thing?" he would calmly, say back, "Yeah Mom...I'm in the Christian chat room." *ha* When she told the hub and I that, we bit out tongues...almost to blood...ha...until we got in the car. :) - lumina, 2008-10-17: 12:13:00
Great word...me the cynic would have been very suspicious of a 13 year old boy in a Christian chat room...possible but unlikely! - Nosila, 2008-10-17: 22:20:00
Now he could claim he was verbotomizing. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-18: 06:43:00
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Callousnickoff
Created by: astorey
Pronunciation: Cal-us-nik-off
Sentence: Tony's superfast typing not only sounded like rapid gunfire, it also left little callousnickoffs all over her keyboard.
Etymology: Callous (skin made tough and thick through wear) + nick (an impression in a surface) + off, combined to sound like the kalishnikoff gun.
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COMMENTS:
Do you believe in the right to arm bears? I do :) - metrohumanx, 2008-10-17: 12:05:00
Very clever, Astorey! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-17: 12:06:00
Shoot! That's a good calibre word! - Nosila, 2008-10-17: 22:30:00
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Rebaretetive
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: rub-BEAR-tet-if
Sentence: Bobby was such an intensive computer user that his two week old keyboard had rebaretetives where the letters used to be.
Etymology: rub + repetitive + bare
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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Boursoflypord
Created by: garythesnail
Pronunciation: bor-SO-FLY-POORD
Sentence: Felix had many boursoflypords on his keyboard.
Etymology: french 'boursouflure' for blister, + type + keyboard
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James