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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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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)
Yahoophoria
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
Deposeate
Created by: skepsis
Pronunciation: de-pose-e-ate
Sentence: Billy-bob, a huge deposeate, keeps texting me from upstairs.
Etymology: depend close communicate
Etwittermania
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).
Enal
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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COMMENTS:
got my vote! - remistram, 2007-08-29: 09:15:00
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Emal
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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COMMENTS:
It wouldn't let me change the spelling to eMal - FreeToys, 2007-08-29: 10:41:00
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Cybereliance
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: seye berr rell eye ens
Sentence: His cyberreliance was so bad he would regularly spam himself.
Etymology: cyber reliance
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 :)