Verboticisms

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: ex-box-I-tis

Sentence: After a lengthy session playing games Delbert suddenly began to experience severe Xboxitis that included tremors, loss of motor skills and eventually resulted in his entering a catatonic state.

Etymology: Combination of Xbox with suffix 'itis - with nouns - denoting abnormal states or conditions, excesses, tendencies, obsessions, etc. ( telephonitis; baseballitis ).

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: tek nerd alert all ogee

Sentence: Sheldon was in the middle of an international on line video challenge and was determined to win. Only problem was that his Mom knew about his technerdalertology. That mattered not to her...what mattered in her world was that he had been in the same dirty underpants and clothes for over a week and had only eaten ten pizzas and 12 cokes to sustain him in that time. It was just about time to pull the plug on little Mr. Whinestein...after all, he was only 7 years old!

Etymology: Tech (Technical, characterizing or showing skill in or specialized knowledge of applied arts and sciences) & Nerd Alert (Term used to call attention to a social or societal outcast)& -Ology ( an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge)

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Created by: Bulletchewer

Pronunciation: geek-i-lepp-si

Sentence: His geekiplesy made him miss what Pulaski wanted to do to his sister.

Etymology: From "geek" meaning pathetic loser who spends too much time in front of a computer (such as myself) and "epilepsy".

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Created by: Squicy31

Pronunciation: Squi-cee

Sentence: The jellyfish is so squicy.

Etymology: It means Squishy in a funnier way.

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: kum pew terr uhl siv

Sentence: He was so computerulsive that on regular occassions the excitement would make him wii himself

Etymology: compulsive computer

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: wee-TOO-see

Sentence: When Brandon pops in Mario Party 8 and begins his crazy wiitusi, nothing is safe. His mom finally gave up and just removed all the remaining unbroken Hummels from the family room.

Etymology: wii (vid game) + watusi (the dance, not th e tribe). I am probably dating myself with this one...

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COMMENTS:

this is good! - wordmeister, 2007-03-16: 08:37:00

Hey, The Orlons are still around! http://www.theorlons.com/ - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-16: 12:48:00

man, I went groovin over there, I thought you meant the cylons-http://www.cylon.org/ - Alchemist, 2007-03-16: 14:07:00

DOH! WAH Watusi! THOSE orlons! I thought u were just interjecting a 60's era non-sequiter... - Alchemist, 2007-03-16: 15:53:00

Looks like Buck Rogers' outfits were crafted from Orlon. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-17: 04:55:00

No, I think he got them on Earth! - Alchemist, 2007-03-17: 06:23:00

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Created by: revolver23

Pronunciation: tweaking

Sentence: He was up all night, wasn't eating, wasn't bathing. Just playing video tennis. Dude was twiiking.

Etymology: Amphetamine addiction leads to twitchiness, paranoia, and obsession. Addicts are called tweakers.

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: vi-dee-oh-vur-drive

Sentence: At first glance, I thought my son may have Tourettes Syndrome, but when I saw that he was playing a game, I realized he was just in videoverdrive.

Etymology: video, overdrive

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Created by: Sed8ed

Pronunciation: sigh-burr-vishun

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: vid - eee - ooo - wee - al - et - ee

Sentence: No one could get Jonah's attention for the past two days. He was clearly in videowiiality and we were all worried. We thought he was becoming dehydrated and it looked like his game system had become his new hallucinogenic.

Etymology: video, wii, reality

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COMMENTS:

Don\'t tell me Jonah forgot his energy drink! - artr, 2009-10-02: 12:22:00

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