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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Tipsymail
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /tip-see-mayl/
Sentence: Our senior co-worker, Frank, would enjoy himself at Happy Hour at the bar next door to the office, but then he'd sometimes return to work, and tipsymail the group about next week's assignments. It's hard to believe that someone can 'slur' in e-mail like that...
Etymology: tipsy - slightly intoxicated or drunk (from Middle English, typen "to upset, overturn") + e-mail (short for electronic mail — but of course, you already knew that.)
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COMMENTS:
Last sentence really cracked me up! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-31: 11:39:00
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Tipsticulate
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: tips tick you late
Sentence: Arlene almost died from embarrassment when her boss mentioned her incomprehensible late night email. She has a tendency to tipsticulate after finishing a bottle of red with her dinner.
Etymology: From the vernacular 'Tipsy' and articulate (to say)
Liquormail
Created by: Dougalistic
Pronunciation: Lick-er-may-all
Sentence: I recieved an email from Bob the other day, but I can't quite work out what it means. It looks like liquormail or something to me. Oh yea I remember he said he was going to drink that bottle of Verbotomy Port if he got sacked and then attempt to email his... oh sh*t!
Etymology: Liquor - an alcoholic drink, especially of the type produced by distillation, e.g. whisky, rather than of the type produced by fermentation, e.g. wine or beer. Mail - To send somebody a messege via any forms of communication.
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 (inebriated) + err + pickled herring
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COMMENTS:
Great word in a very funny sentence that evokes images of co-workers might have gone on to grin and bare it! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-24: 16:27:00
left the word 'that' out between co-worked and might. Aplogies to all! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-24: 16:28:00
blew it again ... but you get the gist of it. Freudian typos are plaguing me today! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-24: 16:29:00
I've gotten a few of those and probably sent one or two as well. - Mustang, 2008-11-24: 23:44:00
We've ALL been guilty of backing talkwards. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-25: 10:50:00
Looks great - OZZIEBOB, 2008-11-29: 14:48:00
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Communidrunkation
Created by: wayoffcenter
Pronunciation: kəmyoōnədrəngkāshən
Sentence: It wasn't his fault. His English professor told the class to research a word by experiencing its definition. Chris chose "intoxicated". His communidrunkation to the entire online world let everybody know he was: inebriated, impaired, drunken, tipsy, under the influence, plastered, smashed, bombed, sloshed, sozzled, sauced, lubricated, well-oiled, wrecked, juiced, blasted, stinko, blitzed, half-cut, fried, wasted, hopped up, gassed, polluted, pissed, tanked (up), soaked, out of his head/skull, loaded, trashed, hammered, soused, buzzed, befuddled, besotted, pickled, pixilated, canned, cockeyed, blotto, blind drunk, roaring drunk, dead drunk, punch-drunk, ripped, stewed, tight, merry, the worse for wear, far gone, pie-eyed, in one's cups, three sheets to the wind, bladdered, lashed, crapulous. And that was just what he found in the Thesauaus before the room went spinning into darkness.
Etymology: communication: the imparting or exchanging of information or news + drunk: intoxicated to excess
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COMMENTS:
Man oh MAN!
....Say NO MORE! - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:39:00
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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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Eepissle
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: eee piss ill
Sentence: his eepissles had cost him three jobs, two wives and custody of three rather fetching goats.
Etymology: epistle e-mail, pissed
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COMMENTS:
Niiice. - Maxine, 2008-01-31: 07:33:00
Cute. - ErWenn, 2008-01-31: 09:33:00
you are so funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-01-31: 11:24:00
great sentence; nice word! Hope he didn't become the but of everyone jokes! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-31: 22:28:00
letter perfect, galwaywegian! - Nosila, 2008-01-31: 23:22:00
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Booziemail
Created by: logarithm
Pronunciation: bOO'zē.māl
Sentence: Billy begged his lady boss not to fire him for sending her a booziemail bitching about her bitchiness.
Etymology: From: 1) Boozy: characterized by the drinking of alcohol to excess. 2) Email: computer-to-computer communication system; a system that allows text-based messages to be exchanged electronically, e.g. between computers or cell phones. Full form: electronic mail.
Millertome
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: mill-er-toe-m
Sentence: As Justin checked his email, he realized that seeing his ex-girlfriend in the bar last night promted her to send him a lengthy millertome outlining (incomprehensibly) his shortcomings.
Etymology: play on the phrase Miller time (a slogan used by the Miller Brewing Company) + tome
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COMMENTS:
Good word. I could tell exactly what it means even out of context. - ErWenn, 2008-01-31: 09:31:00
Three cheers! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-31: 11:55:00
Not a good way to "Foster" a relationship! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-31: 22:37:00
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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