December 11, 1998
Jargon Monitor No. 21
"Mouselexic" -- Someone who has difficulty using a computer mouse.
Scott Sechrist, an associate professor of medical-laboratory sciences at Old Dominion University, says he heard the term from one of his colleagues who doesn't feel comfortable with Windows-based computers.
"He seemed unable to move his mouse pointer over scroll bars, tool bars, etc., without the pointer moving wildly across his screen,"
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