Word List / Electronics :.
1. anaception (ä'nə-sĕp'shən)
- a. (n.) The body's ability to actually affect television reception by moving about the room.
2. beepilepsy (bēp'ə-lĕp'sē)
- a. (n.) The seizure suffered in the process of finding and turning off a beeper, especially one that vibrates.
3. billmarker (bĭl-mär'kər)
- a. (n.) A machine which tells the user if their dollar bill is too wrinkled to fit into another machine or not. On occasion, if the bill is straight, it will automatically feed back the bill and a fifty dollar bill will be returned in the receipt collection receptacle.
4. blade runner (blād rŭn'ər)
- a. (n.) The tendency of a ceiling fan to keep going five minutes after one has turned it off.
5. calbliterate (kăl-blĭt'ə-rāt')
- a. (v.tr.) To toy with something until it no longer works or is much worse than it originally was.
6. camruck (kām'rŭk)
- a. (n.) A rare moment that occurs when one's camera batteries die before they can take a picture. Often used interjectorily.
Example: Malcolm shouted, "Camruck," as a humpback whale leaped out of the water as his camera's battery died.
7. Cell-Hell (sĕl-hĕl)
- a. (n.) The place where a cell phone turns one's calls off due to bad reception. Such places include tunnels, overpasses, and the McDonald's® drive-thru.
8. cellapse (sĕl-lăps')
- a. (n.) An elapse of time in which there is no cellphone reception.
9. digiocrity (dĭ'jē-ŏk'rĭ-tē)
- a. (n.) The culture of replacing high quality analog systems with lower quality but more convenient digital systems.
Example: The rapid replacement of film cameras with digital is a true sign of digiocrity.
10. disluminate (dĭs-lü'mə-nāt')
- a. (v.) To take light away from something.
Example: With a flick of the switch the room was disluminated.
11. docuphobia (dŏc'ū-fō'bē-ə)
- a. (n.) The fear of using documentation, usually resulting from some previous traumatic event such as programming a VCR.
12. electronical (ĭ-lĕk-trŏn'ĭ-kəl)
- a. (adj.) Descriptive of an electronic set of components.
13. emongous (ĭ-mŏng'gəs)
- a. (adj.) A large conglomeration, especially of companies, often through electronic media.
Examples:
Time-Warner and Microsoft have become emongous companies!
More loosely, "Johny's new TV is emongous!"
14. fanaddict (făn'ə-dĭkt)
- a. (n.) One who insists on sleeping with a fan on during cold weather while taking refuge under blankets.
- b. (n.) A regular viewer of any celebrity news television syndication.
15. FCDVD (ĕf-sē-dē-vē-dē)
- a. (acro.) Floppy Compact Digital Versatile Disk; a small, square, bendable disk holding the same amount of data as a DVD.
16. fluggling (flŭg'əl'ĭng)
- a. (v.) The dangerous practice, in a darkened room, of using one's finger to guide the end of an electrical plug into a wall socket.
17. megapixures (mĕg'ə-pĭks'ərs)
- a. (n.pl.) Pictures taken with a digital camera or prints made from digital files.
18. mousecurse (măüs-kûrs)
- a. (n.) A curse afflicting a user whose mouse pointer deliberately overshoots its intended target as many as a dozen times in a row.
19. mousecurser (măüs-kûrs'ər)
- a. (n.) Someone who shouts at a mouse for overshooting the intended target.
20. neogenic (nē'ə-jĕn'ĭk, nē'ō-jĕn'ĭk)
- a. (adj.) Having an attraction to bright lights.
Examples:
A fly is neogenic to bug lights.
Las Vegas is covered in neon signs to attract neogenic people.
21. neonphancy (nē'ŏn'fən-sē)
- a. (n.) A fluorescent light bulb struggling to come to life.
22. nerkle (nûrk'əl)
- a. (n.) A person who leaves their Christmas lights up all year.
23. papertexting (pā'pər-tĕkst'ĭng)
- a. (v.) To jot down a note on a scrap of paper, take a camera phone snapshot of it, and picture message (MMS) it over to a friend; often more expressive and expensive than regular SMS text.
24. permafix (pûr'mə-fĭks)
- a. (n.) To permanently fix computer issues of an incompetent user by ripping the power cord from the outlet and taking it, thus preventing future use of the computer.
Example: "He had screwed up his computer so badly that I had to apply a permafix."
25. phonesia (fō-nē'zhi-ə)
- a. (n.) The affliction of dialing a phone number and forgetting whom you were calling just as they answer.
- b. (n.) Getting to the end of a list of options on a recorded helpline number, only to forget which option one wanted; forcing them to listen to them again, and in some cases having to redial the number.
