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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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Dejascrewed
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: day ja scr oooood
Sentence: The feeling of dejascrewed was so familiar, the message light on his phone throbbing in time with his headache, the dry mouth and the message from his boss in his inbox entitled "Re:hey Benny Brownnose"
Etymology: deja vu, screwed.
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COMMENTS:
Good prose and verboticism! Paints mind pictures and the feelings that go with it, very effectively! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 11:16:00
great words this week galway !! - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-08: 13:42:00
Almost been there... thank goodness I have full permissions on the boss's e-mail. - purpleartichokes, 2008-02-08: 20:38:00
Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-10: 16:44:00
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Drunkified
Created by: shaggy1452
Pronunciation: Drunk-i-fide
Sentence: he was soooo Drunified last weekend, he sent out a mass txt
Etymology: drunk - to be intoxicated ification - a noun ending related to the supine ending
Twiterror
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: twit ur ur
Sentence: you could safely say that the twiterror was not so chirpy the next morning
Etymology: twitter, twit error
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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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
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
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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Hammermailed
Created by: Kevcom
Pronunciation: haam-er-may-ould
Sentence: Joe hammermailed his boss at exactly 11:59PM, just a minute before his big "project" was due. He had handed it on time, but the vulgarity of his "juiced" message was to obscure for the boss to handle.
Etymology: hammered (juiced, stoned, drunk) + email
Bloghensive
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: blog/hen/sive
Sentence: With all his true thoughts about his boss and his friends sent at the height true spiritual drunkedness, he was bloghensive of the feedback about to come his way.
Etymology: BLOGHENSIVE noun - from - BLOG (thoughts published on a Web page) + APPREHENSIVE (mentally upset over possible misfortune, danger, or stupidity)
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COMMENTS:
Very good. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-05: 03:06:00
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Clicksand
Created by: Magnetic
Pronunciation: klik - sand
Sentence: Knowing there was nothing he could do to fix the inevitable drunken harm he'd done at the keyboard the previous night, Bob accepted the impending reprocussions as he stewed in his own clicksand.
Etymology: click (computer or texting) + (quick)sand + click send (modified past tense of clicking the send button to send an email that now cannot be unsent)
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COMMENTS:
Excellent choice of words well blended into into a simple clear-meaning catchy verboticism. Reprocussions is a nifty one, too. Excellent creations! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 11:30:00
fantastic word - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-08: 12:47:00
absolutely great! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-10: 16:40:00
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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