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DEFINITION: n., The uneasiness, social discomfort, and impending sense of doom which occurs when you realize that you've sent out a few too many emails after drinking way too much. v., To worry about your social status after a night of heavy drinking and stupid emailing.
Verboticisms
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Treemulous
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: treem/u/lus
Sentence: He was treemulous as he slunk silently to his desk, hoping a new virus had attacked during the night and wiped out his caustic emails.
Etymology: tremulous + e (as in email)
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COMMENTS:
Embedding the e(mail) within tremulous was very creative! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 10:55:00
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Alcospamitis
Created by: gregoriantumor
Pronunciation: al-ko-spam-i-tis
Sentence: The Nigerian spammer accuses his chronic spamming to alcospamitis.
Etymology: English; adj/adverb, 14th century
Rogueemailephant
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: rowg/emial/efant
Sentence: The rogueemailephant finally sent one too many drunken emails which forced the company into bankruptcy. He hasn't been herd from since, although it has been speculated that he may try to join the Societe Generelephants.
Etymology: email + rogue elephant (person who avoids others)
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COMMENTS:
I assume he will packiederm his bags and go - galwaywegian, 2008-02-08: 07:38:00
You're very hugely creative, today! Evokes thoughts of rogue mails big as elephants! Can you e-male us ladies some to Njoy? (very red faced with longlived laughter) - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 10:45:00
Great puns ... through and through ... you are so good at what you do! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 10:46:00
And here's the sad truth about drunken elephants... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21432722/ - purpleartichokes, 2008-02-08: 11:44:00
truly shocking story but at least they went out happy - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-08: 12:52:00
Very cute, almost Babaric...did you pull that one out of your trunk? - Nosila, 2008-02-09: 03:51:00
Creative and interesting! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-10: 16:50:00
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Hangmailed
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: hayng - maled
Sentence: Riley really felt hangmailed this morning in more ways than one. First, there was the enormous headache and queasiness from his hangover. But most horribly, he felt a sense of impending doom over the emails he thought he remembered sending last night. Did he really tell off his boss, his girlfriend, his brother and his best friend all in the span of a few hours? He was afraid to open his inbox.
Etymology: Hang (kill by hanging, hang one's head in shame; to be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive; "This worry hangs on my mind") + Hang is the beginning of the word hangover. The last part of the word is mailed (past tense of mail, as in its too late)....you've been hanged with your mail!!
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COMMENTS:
Super word and super etymology - silveryaspen, 2008-12-03: 17:06:00
Hangmailing sounds like a hanging offense...Good Word! - Nosila, 2008-12-03: 20:51:00
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Angstipsy
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: ahngks-TIP-see
Sentence: Zymxiety and blottoriety echoed like thunder in Bob's aching head. The anticipation of waiting was over; the fearsome figure of his boss loomed closer and closer. His angstipsy trebled and fumbling for words he trembled-out, " Good morning, Mr Grump -oops, I mean Mr Trump.
Etymology: ANGST: unspecified, uncertain feeling of dread, anxiety or anguish & TIPSY:being under the influence of strong drink, rendered foolish by liquor. ZYMXIETY: zym: fermentation in wine making, brewing & an(XIETY).BLOTTORIETY:blotto and notoriety
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COMMENTS:
Clever sentence! Beginning with a tongue-tripper for me ... and ending with Bob's angsttipsey tongue-tripping! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 11:03:00
Your many verbots always amaze me. Sometimes, like zym today, you bring new words to me. My parents and grandparents liked to zym California grapes. I like to zym sweet dark red cherries into cherry brandy! Zym is now zimmed indelibly to my vocabulary! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 11:10:00
super word ozzie - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-08: 12:48:00
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Egret
Created by: picabomama
Pronunciation: like regret, drop the first R
Sentence: It was the morning after the big celebration and Dmitri woke in a puddle of his own sick. Worried that he may have defiled his prized laptop, he gingerly tapped the mouse and waited. What he found was a fully operational computer, buzzing with reply e-mails. The previous evening's activities came into sharper focus as he scanned the subject lines in his in-box. His EGRET reached it's zenith as he read the e-mail firing him from the very job promotion he had been celebrating.
Etymology: regret, and e-mail
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COMMENTS:
Excellent! Short and right to the point! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 18:12:00
Great verboticism - Mustang, 2008-02-09: 04:10:00
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Irratractablessness
Created by: ianbkk
Pronunciation: The main stress is on the third syllable.
Sentence: His irratractablessness swallowed all hope.
Etymology:
Woeisee
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: woe - is - ee
Sentence: After Chris' rampage last night, including drinking a fifth of Vodka, trashing his new motorcyle and emailing his girlfriend, accusing her of cheating on him, all he could mutter today was "woe is me" and especially, "woeisee".....
Etymology: Woe (sorrow, regret, deep distress or misery) + is (singular state of "to be") + ee (short for email)
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COMMENTS:
Wowed me over - or should I say woed me over. - silveryaspen, 2008-12-03: 15:37:00
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Queasemail
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kwēzēmāl
Sentence: When Sidney woke up on Saturday morning he dragged himself to the computer to survey the damage he might have caused the night before. Through the haze of far-too-much and way-too late he remembered how he thought it would be amusing to see if he could send e-mails to everybody in his address book. Most of them were stupid or made no sense at all but there, in the SENT folder, was the queasemail - that one that he felt deep in the pit of his stomach. The one that felt like Chuck Norris had kicked him - the kind of kick that makes you expect to find your spleen laying somewhere in the living room. That was when the sun came out. He looked in his inbox and found a number of "huh?" responses and the one that saved him. He had sent THE ONE to his girlfriend's old e-mail address and it had been kicked back. Time to take some Tylenol and get the day started. What had he said to her? You'll have to ask him. His delete key works just fine.
Etymology: queasy (nauseated; feeling sick) e-mail (messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network)
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COMMENTS:
Not fair! What had he done? Proposed? Told her off? - wayoffcenter, 2008-12-03: 05:33:00
That sentence sure packs a PUNCH(bowl)! - metrohumanx, 2008-12-03: 16:35:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James
Tigger - 2008-02-08: 14:30:00
Ahh, e-mail and alcohol... They go together like peas and carrots, or like 'lack of inhibition' and 'lack of employment',
- 2008-02-26: 00:18:00
You hit my head with the bottle!
- 2008-02-26: 00:22:00
twice now!
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James