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DEFINITION: An often debilitating condition characterized by compulsive, repetitive and obsessive reading of product documentation and warranties.
Verboticisms
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Fuckedy
Created by: onekid
Pronunciation: fuckedy
Sentence: hm?
Etymology: oo da
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COMMENTS:
uu - onekid, 2007-07-07: 17:15:00
wTF does that even mean?!?! - missmurder, 2007-07-29: 19:03:00
oh i get it lmao!!!! - missmurder, 2007-07-29: 19:03:00
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Cigourettes
Created by: OldEnglish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: On Christmas Eve, we would drift off to sleep listening to the traditional cries of "I'll show you a Tab A, you B Slot!" that always accompanied my father's seasonal bouts of Cigourette's.
Etymology: Complete Idiot's Guide + Tourette's
Docupulsive
Created by: SlappyDaClown
Pronunciation: Doc-u-pul-sive
Sentence: I think hes somewhat docupulsive about those instructions.
Etymology: Coined by Freud in his massive missive on Compulsions.
Manuholic
Created by: eljono
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My name is John and I'm a manuhlolic!
Etymology: Manual + -holic (a combining form extracted from alcoholic)
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COMMENTS:
Good one, because it's clear what this means. The suggestions from other users can often be used for any book or document. - Batavier, 2007-10-05: 10:22:00
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Documania
Created by: duefiori
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My father's documania was fatal when we tried to use new appliances.
Etymology:
Docufetish
Created by: Count
Pronunciation: doc-u-fetish
Sentence: "I hear all she does is read manuals. Man, she must have a serious docufetish."
Etymology:
Instrucsecure
Created by: Lapper
Pronunciation: in-STRUC-sec-YOUR
Sentence: Robert knew exactly how to use the soldering gun, but every time he tried to use it he found himself instrucsecure, glancing at the manual again and again.
Etymology: Instructions and insecure
Overinformativeness
Created by: livejuicy
Pronunciation: oh-ver-in-for-mah-tive-ness
Sentence: Upon opening his new cell phone's user manual, he suffered a bout of overinformativeness.
Etymology: Over + information + ness
