Verboticisms

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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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: ben-der-sen-der

Sentence: A chill went through Cheryl as the third person directed a cold shoulder in her direction. Was this a harBINGEr of doom? That old bendersender feeling returned when she got to her desk, saw the empty bottle and red wine stains on the keyboard.

Etymology: bender (a heavy drinking session) sender (one who emails others)

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COMMENTS:

I love the way your brain bends to come up with these! - emdeejay, 2008-12-03: 04:46:00

a bendersendermend - is the apology that follows in an attempt to redress offenses - petaj, 2008-12-03: 05:09:00

Addressed to the bendersender's friends? - emdeejay, 2008-12-03: 05:27:00

harBINGEr - laughed and thought it a great create - silveryaspen, 2008-12-03: 17:05:00

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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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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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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Fay-t-mayel

Sentence: Derek woke up to a very uneasy feeling of fatemail the morning after the office christmas party. He, of course had had far too much to drink, but he couldn't have made a fool of himself by stripping naked and running round the grounds, no, he had to wait til he got home and send an email to all his co-workers telling them exactly what he thought of them. The worst thing was he told everyone his boss was an overbearing tyrant who only got the job because his father was a managing director of the company, he knew it wouldn't be long before he got to read this statement so he vowed that as soon as he sobered up he would go out and buy the paper and look through the situations vacant pages.

Etymology: Fate(the inevitable outcome of a person's life) + email(electronic mail) = Fatemail

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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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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: fayse down book

Sentence: When Leonard came home from work and got soused every night, he often felt a strong urge to phone, email, text or Facebook everyone he had ever known and say rambunctious things,which he did not remember in the morning. One morning, after such an orgy.org he had achieved facedownbook, when his boss unfriended him by disabling him;his girl dumped him by text and he felt like a real A-ol...his textoserone was at an all-time low.

Etymology: Facebook (popular social media site on computer) & Face down (fallen on the floor;drunk;out of it)

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Created by: XMbIPb

Pronunciation: ETHANOLOPRESSION

Sentence: As he machanically scrolled through about a dozen e-mails from giddy co-workers, the events of last evening began to take shape. Slowly, almost lazily, the dim suspicion of something being vaguely out of place began to yield to an outright dread as his gaze fell on the last message. That one was from Mr. Goldenshlock himself. The e-mail quoted Jake's own message to the entire company in which he described the etymology of the world "shlock" and advised Jake where he can pick up his last paycheck. Overcome by utter ethanolopression, Jake grabbed for the bottle with the last two drops of tequila and finished it off without thinking of the worm that stuck to his uvula.

Etymology: "Ethanol" - two carbon alcohol compound ubiquitous to all alcoholic beverages. "Pression" - root word from "depression. (Comment: the word was originally spelled with a hyphen: "e-thanolopression," which makes total sense given its original meaning. Through the ages, however, this was dropped by lazy spellers who felt it was beneath them to use the ring finger of their right hand to press an extra key [see: "ROFLMAO" "UR GR8" "BTW" and "BRB"]

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COMMENTS:

wow! - splendiction, 2010-04-28: 23:08:00

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Created by: kakru

Pronunciation: ee-mayl-eyz

Sentence: This morning Leroy has a hangover and is mired in a deep emailaise because of those terrible messages he sent last night.

Etymology: Email+malaise (a feeling of uneasiness or impending doom)

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Created by: Biscotti

Pronunciation: e-may-lah-ree-uh

Sentence: John felt a strange sense of emailarrhea after waking up in front of his computer surrounded by empty liquor bottles.

Etymology: email and diarrhea

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COMMENTS:

Right on the definition! Good one! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 18:15:00

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