Verboticisms

Created by: AetasSerenus

Pronunciation: epi-stu-posis

Sentence: A friend of mine has developed a bad case of epistuposis, I haven't spoke face to face with her for over a month

Etymology: From the latin words epístula and pósitus, meaning e-mail and addict

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Created by: Pseudonym

Pronunciation: ay-mayn-ee-a

Sentence: "Here's the link for the AIMania support site that I messaged you about."

Etymology: AIM + mania

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Created by: qcpbraca

Pronunciation: Tech-no-pend

Sentence: He is such a technopend, he just simply can't leave his computer when we are about to go out, he always say "just one minute more, i need to read this email"

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Created by: Neej13

Pronunciation: TEK-no-sloth

Sentence: A true technosloth, Barry preferred to email his cubicle neighbor about whether he'd attend today's meeting, rather than respond directly.

Etymology: Technology + sloth

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Created by: Poeiden

Pronunciation: free-ko-mai-lo-gy

Sentence: Bob the computer technician suffers from an occupational hazard of freakomailogy.

Etymology: freak + mail +psychoLOGY

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Created by: haldean

Pronunciation: IHM-AYL-IH-TIE-TUS

Sentence: His imailititus is getting worse; it's like he's deaf and dumb. He just sent me an SMS to ask me to pass him the salt!

Etymology: IM (abbr, instant messaging) + Email + titus (Greek, meaning disorder)

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Created by: adair455

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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

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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

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Created by: pinkpearls94

Pronunciation: social-electrouno

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Created by: blinktag

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Created by: noztril

Pronunciation: jurk mayl ee ak

Sentence: Sanford is a jerkmailiac

Etymology: jerk + junkmail + insomniac

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Created by: Scrumpy

Pronunciation: e-buht-ed

Sentence: Ken compulsively ebutted his cubicle partner then elbowed him in the ribs.

Etymology: e - from electronic (as in email) and abutted - to touch at the edge.

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Created by: logorrhoea

Pronunciation: Si-ber-ses-ee-sin-drom-ik

Sentence: John sends 60 e-mails per hour but he hasn't spoken to any of his colleauges this month. He's been diagnosed by a psychiatrist as cybersessisyndromic.

Etymology: cyber + obsessed + syndrome

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: seye berr rell eye ens

Sentence: His cyberreliance was so bad he would regularly spam himself.

Etymology: cyber reliance

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Created by: earljw

Pronunciation: con-ver-i-va-cee

Sentence: I want to talk to some of my co-workers, but don't want the others to hear. So one of my colleagues and I engage in converivacy.

Etymology: conversation + privacy

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: Ya-who-four-ee-ya

Sentence: Dennis spent most of his day in a state of Yahoophoria, compulsively chacking his email and im-ing his cubicle mate.

Etymology: Yahoo (email, IM service) and euphoria

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Created by: alabaster

Pronunciation: Wanna cyber

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Created by: jpmikkers

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Etymology: People that are addicted to making and reading useless mails.

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Created by: DrHarvey

Pronunciation: Ass-key-fill-eya

Sentence: I've managed to impress the girl across from me at the library - I think - though our relationship is purely asciphilic.

Etymology: 'Ascii' - form of digital text or code '-philia' - from the Greek 'to love'

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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

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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)

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Created by: joelb

Pronunciation: e-tard-ay-shun

Sentence: His etardation reached it's pinnacle when he requested a video conference from across the room.

Etymology: e (for electronic, like in e-mail) + retardation

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Created by: jackalterman

Pronunciation: ee-dik-shun

Sentence: Harold's overwhelming ediction contributed to the downfall of his intra-personal communication, and ultimately, his family life.

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Created by: skepsis

Pronunciation: de-pose-e-ate

Sentence: Billy-bob, a huge deposeate, keeps texting me from upstairs.

Etymology: depend close communicate

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Created by: lvinning

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Created by: daniel3k

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Created by: ironnie

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Etymology: freak + electronic

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Created by: futebollounge

Pronunciation: tek-no-pen-dent

Sentence: Michael, who was technopendant all his life vomited during his first encounter with Alice, the girl he met on myspace.

Etymology: developed 5 minutes ago in my filthy brain

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awesome word u win :) - futebollounge, 2007-08-29: 16:51:00

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Created by: sevith

Pronunciation: eye-em-oh-HALL-ic

Sentence: My sister Cathy e-mailed me about an e-mail. Clearly an IMoholic

Etymology: IM short for instant message. -Oholic name of the patron saint of Oxycontin

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Created by: bonus

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Created by: Victoria

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Created by: duefiori

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Created by: jadakiss98682

Pronunciation: stew-hawk

Sentence: *Sees two people on their laptops flirting. "get off the laptop and tap that you stewhawk!"

Etymology: stephen hawking was the influence on this one...... considering the fact that the man is scared to speak out of his own mouth :))) i still love you stewie

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so creative sooo so much - jadakiss98682, 2007-08-29: 17:01:00

pretty clever - futebollounge, 2007-08-29: 17:03:00

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Created by: cococo

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Sentence: My team suffers of Autismail

Etymology: Autism + mail

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Created by: greystarling

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Sentence: Man, I gotta cure me of this eddiction, it's getting out of hand - I'm checking my email in my sleep!

Etymology: compound noun from "e" of electronic (eg. email, ebook), and "addiction"

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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

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Created by: jenorthar

Pronunciation: prox-email-ing

Sentence: Although they were sitting together on the couch, Bob and Jane continued proximailing each other in silence.

Etymology: proximity + emailing

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Created by: rwoodward

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Created by: woofmaster

Pronunciation: e-twit-ter-may-nee-uh

Sentence: I'm sorry, Mrs. Collins. Your son -- your son has etwittermania. He's an etwittermaniac.

Etymology: From "e" (from e-mail, etc.), "twitter" (to twitter on, and, also, Twitter), mania (a suffix typically applied to obsessive behavioral disorders).

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Created by: Ra1111

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Sentence: The only cure for Digitool Syndrome is to strand the person in the wilderness and if they should make it out alive, send them to live with the Amish.

Etymology: Digital/Tool

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Created by: Tesher

Pronunciation: e-pen-dent

Sentence: Adam is completely ependent. He even sends text messages to his girlfriend while they are making out.

Etymology: Electronic (abbreviated as 'E') - dependent (may be varied to -dant for the British)

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Created by: apathy42

Pronunciation: E-quer-tee-OH-sis

Sentence: Tim's eqwertyosis led him to develop calluses on his thumbs when he got his Blackjack.

Etymology: E from e-mail, qwerty from the keyboard style, -osis latin root for mental disorder.

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Created by: applesnpairs

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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)

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Created by: srjones

Pronunciation: deft-mute-izm

Sentence: We don't talk anymore just chat due to his deftmutism.

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Created by: BobHowell

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Created by: faithlessphil

Pronunciation: blak-buh-reed

Sentence: Jack could have just told Mary about the party in person, but years of texting have made him too blackburied.

Etymology: Blackberry + buried

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Created by: Mandalay

Pronunciation: iTard. As in iPod.

Sentence: You are such an iTard, completely useless without technology.

Etymology: iPods, iPhones, iBooks. The Apple range of portable technology. Tard is slang for retard or someone with retardation in my area.

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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.

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Created by: thesteviest

Pronunciation: in-ter-ne-PEN-dent

Sentence: Internepents Anonymous first step is to take a group of people and their lap tops out of the same room and make them converse through instant messaging from different rooms.

Etymology: internet and dependent

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Created by: TehRussians

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Created by: FreeToys

Pronunciation: e' - Mal

Sentence: The scientists at the Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory were enraged when Verbotomy absconded their acronym, to, oddly enough, describe a condition that most of them also shared.

Etymology: Maladjusted/eMailing

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It wouldn't let me change the spelling to eMal - FreeToys, 2007-08-29: 10:41:00

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Created by: IneffableDawn

Pronunciation: ee-dik-ted

Sentence: Bob was so eddicted that his college professor had to email him with a message that said, "Yes, Bob?" When he raised his hand in class.

Etymology: E: From 'e-mail' ddicted: from 'addicted'

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Created by: gabioace

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: e/nal

Sentence: To cover his ass and reassure himself he has told everybody everything he should and covered all his bases, my boss e-mails everything instead of speaking any more. He's totally enal.

Etymology: e-mail + anal

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got my vote! - remistram, 2007-08-29: 09:15:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: IM-dependency

Sentence: Bill's impediment to social interaction was his imdependency. It got so bad that even when he locked away his laptop, he kept throwing LOLs and BTWs into the conversation.

Etymology: IM (instant messaging) + dependency

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