Alex felt such irritection she opened the window and threw her computer as far as she could. She smiled her first smile of the day when she heard the sound of its obliterating crash onto the sidewalk six stories down.
When she feels irritection, her lips tighten, her eyes get buggy, and she mutters some phrase with the word pecker in it.
Theo felt intense irritection after spending three fruitless hours trying to sync his iPod with his new Blackberry.
The quality of irritation caused by malfunctioning technology.
It's a modern phenomenon, a vexing emotional state brought on in the era of cellphones, iPods, laptops, and the need for four remotes when watching television.
Otherwise good and easygoing people morph into wickedness, profanity and despair when they enter the wired darkness that descends when they feel irriteched.
Sam was irriteched when his files failed to download onto his iPhone.
The new accounting program at work is so poorly designed it can irritech even the biggest geek.
It was irriteching as hell when the Blue Screen of Death appeared on my laptop just as I was about to show some producers the film clip of my new documentary.
Irriterate - {Ear-it-er-ate}:
1) To verbally repeat something to the point of irritation in the listener.
2) To conduct an action so many times that the recipient or observer becomes irritated.
Origin: Irritate + Reiterate
1) Caroline irriterated to Chris that she was almost ready to go.
2) Brett started to get angry as Sarah irriterated that she was bored.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murdererused a serrated blade.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing peecalculus.