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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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Technointoximania
Created by: chedwardall
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My colleague is a pure technointoximaniac. He sends out abusive e mails in drink induced anger, then regrets it in the morning.
Etymology: techno=computers intoxi=alcohol mania=an agitated state
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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Statusinfraction
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: sta/tus/in/frac/shun
Sentence: I got me some statusinfraction I tried to get a girl reaction 'Now I'll cry and I'll cry and I'll cry and I'll cry I can't get no, I can't get no
Etymology: status + infraction + satisfaction (Rolling Stones)
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COMMENTS:
Good one, Jaggerwocky - emdeejay, 2008-12-03: 06:16:00
Doctor, please...some more of these... - metrohumanx, 2008-12-03: 16:37:00
Top of the Charts! Music to my ears! - silveryaspen, 2008-12-03: 17:10:00
Good thing Time is on My Side, Jumpin Jack Flash! - Nosila, 2008-12-04: 00:46:00
very nice - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-05: 03:07:00
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Cyboozeled
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /sai-BOO-zuhld/
Sentence: Jack had written a note to himself, "Don't drink and e-mail" on his sticky-note pad, which he had apparently been using as a beer coaster, but the next morning as he perused his 'Sent' folder and saw the e-mail to his boss, calling him a "sissyboy", he knew he'd cyboozeled himself out of another job. He laid his throbbing head down next to the phone to await the inevitable call to inform him of his unemployed status.
Etymology: cyber - as in 'cyberspace' (slang for electronic communication) + booze - any alcoholic beverage (from Middle Dutch, busen "to drink heavily") & foozled - bungled; played clumsily (golf slang; Perhaps from German dial., fuseln "work poorly or slowly")
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COMMENTS:
I like the originality in your choice of words and their blending. Good one! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 18:18:00
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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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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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Coronohnoa
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: kor - oh - no - no - ah
Sentence: Karen thought she heard Noah muttering his own name over and over in the office but when she got up and went in there, she had an interesting discovery. Noah was slumped over his computer, babbling drunkenly coronohnoa, coronohnoa over and over. When she saw the empty bottles of Corona and the emails he had sent to his boss, she doubted he would still have a job on Monday morning.
Etymology: Corona (brand of beer)+ oh no!
Intoxicommunication
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: 1ntɑksəkəmyoōnəkāshən
Sentence: When Joe woke up Monday morning he was terrified to discover that he had indulged in intoxicommunication the night before. He had apparently decided to tell everybody he knows about his inner-most secrets. He was more than a little concerned to see that he had dozens and dozens of messages waiting for him. He was greatly relieved to find that his touch-typing skills had failed him. 99% of what he sent out was utter gibberish. Most of the reply messages consisted of **Huh?**.
Etymology: intoxication (of alcoholic drink or a drug; cause someone to lose control of their faculties or behavior) + communication (the imparting or exchanging of information or news)
Ethanolopression
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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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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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