Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: v., To write an email while under the influence of an intoxicating substance. n., An email or blog post where the author has chosen to ignore standard literary and social conventions -- thanks to a liberal consumption of alcohol.
Verboticisms
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Inboxicated
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: in box i kay ted
Sentence: Jamie was amazed to go into work one Monday and find out he was fired...he was mystified. Turns out he had drank so much on Friday night before sending his boss a self-destructive e-mail. Note to self, unplug your computer when you feel inboxicated!
Etymology: Inbox (a place on a computer where email messages which are sent to you are kept) & Intoxicated (drunk, inebriated, under the influence...)
Microbrewerysoft
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: my kro broo eree soft
Sentence: Michael was quickly fading into microbrewerysoft mode, after a night of tippling and typing. The false courage and lack of inhibition that the local brew gave him, made him usually send out e-mails or blogs that he would spend weeks trying to amend for. Yes, it was high time that computers came with breathalyzers. Don't Drink and N-Drive!
Etymology: Microsoft (Computer Giant) & Micro Brewery (Small local brewery, usually makes beer and ale the old-fashioned way, often attached to a pub)
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COMMENTS:
Admire the way you embedded one word within another so successfully! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-25: 11:24:00
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Gincommunicado
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: jin - com - meoon - ick - cod - oh
Sentence: Sheila had issues again today. Now on her seventh gin and tonic, she made the mistake of emailing everyone she was angry at or felt had in some way slighted her during the past ten years. She was totally gincommunicado for several hours until she fell asleep at her keyboard. Everytime this happened she would awaken and see the evidence of her rampage as her inbox filled with confused and angry emails, mostly from people she hadn't seen in years. Thankfully, the number of people who answered her was dwindling....but she really bemoaned the fact that she had few friends left.
Etymology: Gin (a type of strong liquor flavored with juniper berries) plus incommunicado which means a state or condition in which one is unable or unwilling to communicate.
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COMMENTS:
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-24: 15:09:00
Nice word! - DaddyNewt, 2008-11-24: 15:17:00
Winsome! Whoops ... perhaps that should be Ginsome! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-24: 15:59:00
Sheila was sloe to learn! - Nosila, 2008-11-24: 20:18:00
I always thought gin was made from hair tonic. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-25: 11:07:00
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Picklederring
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: pikld/airing
Sentence: Please disregard the email sent out yesterday that stated the company dress code has changed to embrace 'Topless Tuesdays' It was clearly a picklederring.
Etymology: pickled (drunk) + err + pickled herring
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COMMENTS:
Outstanding. I also like the subtext of the "derring" in there, as it is a heroicly daring prospect to email the company while soused. - Banky, 2008-01-31: 11:04:00
I liked the derring do in your Topless Tuesdays! That might cause a flap in more ways than one! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-31: 11:44:00
Absolute magic! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-31: 16:18:00
Another amaaazing word to continue your daily barrage of winning verboticisms. - Stevenson0, 2008-01-31: 23:28:00
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Geerbloggle
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: gear-blog-ul
Sentence: Bella cursed inwardly when she read back the geerbloggle she posted at 2.00am and looked at the photographs from her night out. Just which one of these ugly mugs had she described as a "golden Adonis" on her blog? They were all hideous!
Etymology: beer goggle (perception that things are much better than they are - like rose-coloured glasses, but brought on by too much beer) + blog + it's mixed up as though the interlocutor has had too many drinks
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COMMENTS:
Could geerbloggle also be a Spoonerism of sorts on your words of beer, blog, goggle ... and maybe even the end of the word bottle as in beer bottle? I like it. Very creative ... and we don't see very many spoonerisms here. You might just have inspired more! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-24: 16:37:00
I think I remember doing something like that myself. - Mustang, 2008-11-24: 23:36:00
Very clever. Hooray! - metrohumanx, 2008-11-25: 10:48:00
yes definitely a spoonerism - petaj, 2008-11-26: 02:49:00
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Communenebreation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kom myun ee nee bree ayshun
Sentence: Bud Nonweiser had a deadline for 6 am and a love of hops in their liquid form. He had already written many draftbeerdrafts of his report for work, but the more he drank, the worse his editing and decision making skills became. After a brief doze, face imprinted with his keyboard, he decided that his current drafts (both the beer and the report) were tasty and refreshing. His boss, Pete Totaller, must have understood that a report e-mailed off at 4:20 am, making no sense and in an alternate form of English must be a form of communenebreation. He decided quickly that this Bud's not for you and e-mailed him back his severance notice.
Etymology: Communication (transfer thoughts or feelings) & Inebreation (stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) & en-e-breation (electronically intoxicated)
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COMMENTS:
Bud's to you! - splendiction, 2010-04-20: 23:14:00
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Kerouacesque
Created by: sheepsshouldfly
Pronunciation: kar-ou-ac-esque
Sentence: Bob stumbled home inebriated with both hate and alcohol.Spying his open laptop on the table his cognitive cogs began to turn and in a moment of inspiration.He slumped in his chair and wrote a kerouacesque email to his boss.
Etymology:
Emailbriated
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ee-mail-bree-ay-ted
Sentence: as i opened the message it became clear quite quickly that my friend had been emailbriated
Etymology: email, inebriated
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COMMENTS:
Clever!! - libertybelle, 2008-01-31: 08:51:00
Especially apropos for drunken e-males! lol! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-31: 11:47:00
Let's become gender-specific: what about femailbriated, hemailbriated, shemailbriated. Good word1 - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-31: 22:34:00
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Prost
Created by: urbanwookie
Pronunciation: proast
Sentence: Bolstered by beer, Simon felt no hesitation in sending a series of candid prosts to his in-laws.
Etymology: prost - German drinking toast
Soppisstry
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: sop/piss/tree
Sentence: He frequently alarmed his girlfriend with his soppisstry.
Etymology: sop + pissed + e (as in email) + sophistry (unsound reasoning)
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COMMENTS:
Terrific triad! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-31: 12:00:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James
Dougalistic - 2008-01-31: 04:25:00
3 people came up with the word inebriated.. Hmm I sense a conspiricy theory here! Haha.
Maybe we're all drinking from the same bottle. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James