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DEFINITION: A psychological dependency on electronic messaging which often leads to compulsive emailing, even among people who are sitting inches apart.
Verboticisms
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Electroximate
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: ee-lehk-TRAHKS-sihm-muht
Sentence: Alex vainly carried on an electroximate relationship with the woman in the next cubicle. He did wonder why she never returned his IMs, though he knew she was at her desk.
Etymology: electronic + proximate (nearby)
Re: pulsive
Created by: Nicked
Pronunciation: re puls iv
Sentence: When I discovered that I would rather send an email to his cell phone than to walk into the next room to speak to him in person, I knew I was re: pulsive.
Etymology: Re: Email speak for "in response to" + pulsive from compulsive
Webuffoon
Created by: torpid
Pronunciation: web-uh-foon
Sentence: Nancy was such a webuffoon that she emailed Rick twelve times using her blackberry on their first date.
Etymology: Web + Buffoon
Emessagia
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ee-mes-ij-ee-ah
Sentence: The fonts that his co worker used made him want to stick pins in his eyes, maybe he was suffering from a bad case of emessagia.
Etymology: a mental disorder characterized by compulsive e-messaging
Maelresivitus
Created by: h4ste
Pronunciation: mail-receive-itus
Sentence: Son, you've got a bad case of maelresivitus. Even when im just in front of you, you're texting me your replies.
Etymology: mail + recieve + itus
Spamoholics
Created by: jpmikkers
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: People that are addicted to making and reading useless mails.
Emailosis
Created by: cujoe
Pronunciation: E-mail-o-sis
Sentence: He emailed her when she was 3 feet away! He has a bad case of Emailosis.
Etymology: Combination of Email and psychosis.
Simbiotic
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: SIM-bi-o-tic
Sentence: Mat and Tracey had a simbiotic relationship that was made stronger by the fact that neither had to face the other.
Etymology: a perversion of symbiotic that incorporates IM (Instant Message)
Comments:
jadakiss98682 - 2007-08-29: 17:02:00
click on stewhawk and check the etymology of the word. it only makes sense
jadakiss98682 - 2007-08-29: 18:01:00
stewhawk = stephen hawking awesome :)