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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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Schizomailia
Created by: Misscj
Pronunciation: Skiz-o-may-li-a
Sentence: "I must have had schizomailia, I emailed everyone at work a photo of my nuts. I don't even remember doing it. It wasn't me".
Etymology: Schizophrenic emailing
Egnominy
Created by: DaddyNewt
Pronunciation: eeg/NOM/uh/nee
Sentence: Even his throbbing head didn't overshadow Sam's feeling of egnominy.
Etymology: e(ubiquitous as in email) + ignominy
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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Alcotrepemailidation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: al-kuh-trep-ee-meyl-i-dey-shuhn
Sentence: As he wakes from a weekend of partying Jerry sees his laptop and is filled with alcotrepemailidation. Did he really send those flaming emails that he was thinking about? He groggily looks in his sent folder only to find messages that are complete gibberish. Whew! Thank goodness for whiskey-reduced typing skills.
Etymology: alcohol (liquor) + email (a system for sending messages from one individual to another via telecommunications links between computers or terminals) + trepidation (tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbatio)
Spinagleyikes
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: spin-AG-lay-ikes
Sentence: After consuming several bottles of fine New Jersy wine, Tommy savored the intimate caress of the cool floor tiles and realized that he WASN'T going to die just yet. When his glasses de-fogged, he checked the "sent" folder on his laptop and the SPINAGEYIKES gripped him like the angry fist of an ourang-outang. Giselle would certainly never speak to him again, his co-workers would treat him like a leper on the morrow, and his boss would NEVER let him take a week off work to go to that wordsmith festival in the desert. Trembling with SPINAGLEYIKES, Tommy realized that his best career option might be to: cut the soles off his shoes, live in a cave and learn to play the nose flute.
Etymology: SPIN+AGLEY+yIKES=SPINAGLEYIKES..........SPIN:to revolve rapidly,gyrate,to feel as if in a whirl,reel,to move swiftly especially on or as if on wheels or in a vehicle from hell,to fall in a spin,to plunge helplessly and out of control;Middle English spinnen, from Old English spinnan; akin to Old High German spinnan to spin and perhaps to Lithuanian spęsti to set (a trap).....AGLEY:chiefly Scottish, awry ,terribly wrong (the best-laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley);Scots, from 1a- + gley to squint.....YIKES: exclamation,used to express fear or astonishment; probably alteration of yoicks (origin kind of blurry)
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COMMENTS:
Please stagger outside on December 13th & 14th and enjoy the GEMINIDS meteor shower.... - metrohumanx, 2008-12-03: 01:50:00
interesting word and etymology and sentence. - silveryaspen, 2008-12-03: 15:35:00
Thank you, silveryaspen!
It's time we got some NEW challenges, yes? - metrohumanx, 2008-12-03: 16:29:00
Everybody needs a break now and then, and it is probably for a very good reason, so just be patient. - silveryaspen, 2008-12-03: 17:17:00
Quite right. Thank you. - metrohumanx, 2008-12-03: 23:40:00
Uniquely pleasing - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-05: 03:08:00
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Hangmail
Created by: metro1
Pronunciation: hang-male
Sentence: Roger was so dedicated to his new job that he decided to work all night long. As it got later, he gave himself a beer as a motivational reward. As it got later and later, he found he needed more and more rewards to keep going... But he persisted and documented his progress with a series of emails to all his colleagues. When he regained conscious, he discovered that he had created potentially career-ending hangmail.
Etymology: hangover + hangnail + email
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COMMENTS:
Well-crafted ... slid right into the ending with a nifty verboticism! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 18:22:00
HA! - purpleartichokes, 2008-02-08: 20:40:00
Thanks Silvery and Purple! - metro1, 2008-02-10: 14:49:00
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Mailady
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: Mail ah dee
Sentence: Mailanie Mailaprop, also known as Mrs. Mailaprop, loved pina coladas, especially the way mweinmann made them up and served them. It was the Mailabu rum in them that inspired Mrs. Mailaprop to fire off mailicious mailshots in the drunken dead of night. When opened the next morning, the crapnel (crappy shrapnel) from these mail bomb explosions, ricocheted back to hit Mrs. Mailaprop. Oh! How she suffered from this Mailady!
Etymology: Mail, Malady ... Mail - send out messages via email. Malady - suffering from a disease or disorder, as in suffering from the physical disorder of a hangover - plus the mail disorder from writing under the influence.
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COMMENTS:
My sincere thanks to you mweinmann, for inspiring the first sentence. - silveryaspen, 2008-12-03: 01:25:00
...and a toast to you, M'lady...crapnel! GOOD one! - metrohumanx, 2008-12-03: 01:53:00
Cheers :-) - emdeejay, 2008-12-03: 04:04:00
Excellent! - Mustang, 2008-12-03: 07:24:00
Mailisciously mailvevelant! - Nosila, 2008-12-03: 20:49:00
nice blend - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-05: 03:05:00
I am so honored to inspire such a schtupendus story....and to be such an important part of the composition of the vehicle which helps along the state of drunkenness of Mailanie!! - mweinmann, 2008-12-06: 09:10:00
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Digigret
Created by: jranderson22
Pronunciation: dih-jee-gret
Sentence: I had a creeping sense of digigret that only worsened when I took a look inside my sent folder.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
You really gave the finger to digigret! (lol) I'm wondering what other daring deeds those creeping digits did to cause digigret? Very funny verboticism! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 21:24:00
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Edoomshine
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: E-doom-SHAYN
Sentence: Edoomshine overwhelmed Bob when he realized that he had sent out a few too many evodkagrams after drinking the night away online.
Etymology: Blend of E as in Email; DOOM:fate or destiny, esp.adverse fate & MOONSHINE: Illegally distilled whiskey; hard liquor. 2. Foolish talk or thought; nonsense.
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COMMENTS:
Excellent! The moonshine's east, the moonshine's west, and Ozziebob word shines among the very best! - silveryaspen, 2008-12-03: 16:55:00
What a rye sense of humour! - Nosila, 2008-12-04: 00:45:00
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Fredrinkingmale
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: freh-drink-king-male
Sentence: Dick, guzzwiller of moonshine, cast his three sheets to the wind in his heeheemail. The next morning, everything he said, came to a head ... ache ... of course! Intoxipathetic, with lessteem, by all who were victims of this drunkmale, he was fraught with lowdudgeon. Poor Dick, headed from moonshined to unshined, sitting in the mourning sun, a fredrinkingmale!
Etymology: Fretting and freaking over his drinking mail, this male became a fredrinkingmale!
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COMMENTS:
wonderful sentence silvery - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-08: 12:49:00
Great sentence! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-10: 16:45:00
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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