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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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Socialelectrono
Created by: pinkpearls94
Pronunciation: social-electrouno
Sentence:
Etymology:
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
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
Ependent
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)
Imdependency
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
Imailititus
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)
Imoholic
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
Itard
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.
Epistuposis
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
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 :)