New Word Thursday: Gearching

Gearching [Gurching]
verb
1. Gearching, or to gearch is the insatiable desire to Google everything, whether or not that is possible. More clearly, it is the reflex experienced when one is looking for a physical object and instinctively reaches for a keyboard in order to Google for said objects whereabouts.
Also: Gearcher (Someone who spends a lot of time browsing the internet)
"I lost my car keys in the house somewhere yesterday, so without thinking I pulled up a chair at the iMac, opened a browser and starting typing in the Google search box. My wife came in and noticed I'd typed in 'my car keys' into Google. We both burst out laughing when I finally realized the futility of gearching."

"I just couldn't find my cellphone anywhere, in desperation I actually gearched for them. Still no luck. Probably should have clicked 'I'm feeling lucky'."

ORIGIN Modern English : Derived from Google (G) and Searching (earching). Also related to uroogling.

New Word Thursday: 'Strumbling'

Strumbling [Strum-Bling]
verb
1. The confused action associated with someone who is far more comfortable typing and using a word-processor, than reading and writing on paper. The word describes the impulse such afflicted persons have, when they want to quickly navigate to a word on the page (Cmd+F, or Ctrl+F) and mime the keystroke action with their fingers. This also might occur when a reader wishes to copy text for later use, and instinctively mimes the Cmd+C or Ctrl+C action on the table with their fingers.
Also: Strumbled
"I was reading this newspaper yesterday, and there was a link to a website, so I totally strumbled and reached for a mouse to click on it."

"I had this essay printed out, and I saw a paragraph that had been misplaced, so I hit command+c, with my fingers on the table. The teacher walks in and sees me strumbling; it was terrible, he took off his tie, sat down and laughed for five minutes."

ORIGIN Modern English : Derived from Fumble (umbling) and Keystroke (Str).

New Word Thursday: 'Uroogling'

Uroogling [Uroo-gul-ling]
verb
1. To navigate to a website by typing its URL into the Google search engine, and then either clicking the 'I'm feeling lucky' button or, clicking search and clicking the top result (or appropriate result). Can be applied to other search engines, but fundamentally related to Google.
Also: Uroogle, and Uroogler.

''So I want to go to Dvorak.org/blog, so I just uroogle it and bam, I'm there!"

"Anyway, I'm uroogling for the mactake, and Google suggests 'Mistake'."

"He was uroogling for reuters.com when by some freak internet crosstalk phenomenon, he ended up on the SBNP website. Imagine our disgust!"

ORIGIN Modern English : Derived from 'url' ('ur'): the Uniform Resource Locator, and 'googling' ('oogling'), to google for something.

New Word Thursday: "Trivate"

For the record, this is a synonym not a new word. I'm sure there's already a word out there for this!

Trivate [trive-ate]
verb
1. To continually force the brain to be creative and formulate new ideas or content, normally on a regular recurring basis.
''I carry a notebook around with me all the time, it helps me trivate for my weekly column."

ORIGIN Modern English : Derived from 'contrive' ('triv'), and 'notate' ('ate').

New Word Thursday: 'Islelings'

Islelings [ile-lings]
noun
1. The rubber left over on (for instance) a table after erasing something with a standard rubber eraser, which has somehow found its way onto a photocopier or scanner. This results in a irregular ink pattern that resembles an island viewed from space.
''The quality of this brochure is terrible; it has been covered in islelings, and the color is all wrong."

ORIGIN Modern English : Derived from 'Isle' ('isle'), a singular island or peninsula (esp. small); and 'ling' ('lings'), any number of long-bodied edible marine fishes.

New Word Thursday: 'Abpodocate'

Abpodocate [Ab-podo-kate]
noun
1. The art of subscribing to an impossible number of podcasts or netcasts on iTunes, syncing them all to an iPod or media player and never, ever listening to them on-time.
''I've been abpodocating again, I have 50 new podcast episodes to listen to from about a week ago."
"I'm going to subscribe to that podcast and just abpodocate for a while."

ORIGIN Modern English : Derived from 'Abstain' ('Ab'), 'Podcast' ('podo') and 'Cake' ('cate').

New Word Thursday: 'Ritiji'

Ritiji [Rit-tige-gee]
noun
1. The love or passion of tidying or sorting files on a computer. The joy one feels while arranging and ordering computer files into tiny, perfect little directories, smart folders and groups.
Also: Ritijite (Someone who commonly experiences ritiji)
''Feel the ritiji? Now all my files are carefully pruned, ordered and sorted. I'll never be able to find anything ever, again."
"He is such a ritijite, in the nicest sense of the word!"

ORIGIN Modern English : Derived from the misty ratholes that form my logical thought processes at this time of night.

PS.
I was late. I'm so sorry. Technically its still Thursday though, and if I adjust the post time we can pretend I did this post in the morning, or we could not because I can't remember how to do that anymore.

Alasdair came up with the meaning for this week, I invented a really, really bad word. There, that's the credits, now stop waving those pointy sticks at me! I'm innocent!

New Word Thursday: 'Geinstilating'

Geinstilating [Gain-still-ateing]
adverb
1. The leg movement associated with a need to exit a conversation. Body language to indicated one's need to leave a conversation or place. Commonly recognized as leg movements in the direction of an exit, or hip swivels in that said direction.
Also: Geinstilate & Geinstilator
''Whenever we talk, she geinstilates, and just plain leaves after that."
"Yeah not looking forward to this interview, I'm going to have to geinstilate out of there!"

ORIGIN Modern English : Derived from 'Bein' German for leg ('gein') and ('stilating') is derived from the word gesticulate.

New Word Thursday: 'leauscrit'

leauscrit [Lu-skr-eete]
noun | adverb
1. To write or draw by dragging a finger across water that has condensed on glass. Used often on car or bus windows to send inverted messages to other motorists.
Also: Leauscriter & Leauscriting
''He is such a leauscriter."
"Strike me pink! Look at that devious leauscrit!"
"I am leauscriting on this window now"

ORIGIN Modern English : Derived from 'l'eau' French for Water ('leau') and ('scrit') is derived from the Portugese 'escrita', for 'writing'.

New Word Thursday: 'interwarble'

Interwarble [Inter-warble]
verb | adverb
1. The persistent (but well meaning) reminding or nagging, via an electronic medium such as Instant Messenger or Email:
'I have 40 new IM messages from mum. She's started to interwarble about my job interview.'
'Yes Dad, you've begun interwarbling, you big interwarbler. Us country folk don't go running to the doctor with every sneeze, sniffle or broken bone!'


ORIGIN Modern English : Derived from the word internet ('inter') and warble ('warble') which is characteristic of nagging behavior.

New Word Thursday: 'perpeche'

Perpeche [Per-petch]
verb
1. To retrieve a fallen peripheral by pulling on its wire or cable:
'I knocked the mouse of the table, can you perpeche it?'
'Grab the speaker cable, the one that's fallen off the table and perpeche it up to me please!'

2. To attempt retrieval of stationary or electronic devices that are beyond comfortable reach by using only the power of one's mind.
'I dropped my textbook, and I'm going to sit here and perpeche it.'

also: Perpeching [Per-petch-ing]
'He is perpeching the keyboard from under the table.'

also: Perpecher [Per-petcher]
noun
1. Someone who is thought to spend much of their time knocking over peripherals and perpeching them:
'He's just one big perpecher, last night he knocked over his keyboard, mouse and monitor.'

ORIGIN Modern English : Derived from the word peripheral ('per') and pêche which is French for fishing ('peche').

New Word Thursday: 'lerl'

A short weekly feature (yes, we can have weekly features after two days. Because we're awesome.) in which Skippy creates a new word to add to the English language. Or any other languages, really, except programming languages because if you try to make up words in them, they just don't work. I've tried. One day, I will get Visual BASIC to "splurgify" an integer.
Anyway, here's today's word, based on those annoying people who can't tell the difference between WoW and RL.


lerl [lerel]
verb
1. to include acronyms normally used when playing online games whilst actually speaking:
'He lerls like, all the time'
'Lerl your sentences boy!'
[example of someone 'lerling']
'I said to him rofl, lol lol, pwned, ttyl brb.'
'He said that he really cba, and tbh I agree.'

2. converting normal english into leetspeak (13375p34k) whilst actually speaking
[example of someone 'lerling' with leetspeak]
'That's really 1337, you 83457.'
'I h4d nach0s f0r 1unxh'

Also: lerler [lerela]
noun
Someone who 'lerls', or is 'lerling'.
He is such a lerler.

ORIGIN Modern English : derived from the first two characters of the word: '1337', ('le') and the acronym 'rl' meaning 'real life'. ('lerl').