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'Fell asleep at the keyboard again...'

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.

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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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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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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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Blunderoveritis

Created by: Itssavagetime2017

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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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Egnominy

DaddyNewt

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

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Crashcoors

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: crash coors

Sentence: Rocky knew he was on a crashcoors when he awoke the next morning surrounded by empty beer bottles and e-mails from friends, co-workers and boss, upset at his tirade online last night. The e-morse he felt at the things he had drunkenly said, cost him his girlfriend, his buddies and his job. He is now older Budweiser, with his Heinecken a sling and he now knows what ales him...Miller time!

Etymology: Crash ((computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative) & Coors (American beer brand) & Wordplay on Crash Course

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Facedownbook

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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Remorseinebremail

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: re-morss-in-EEB-ree-mayl

Sentence: Upon awakening after his marathon on-line experience while totally blitzed, Jerry had a major attack of remorseinebremail when he saw the entries in his email 'sent messages' folder.

Etymology: Blend of 'remorse' (regret), 'inebriated' (intoxicated, under the influence of alcohol) and 'email' (electronic communication)

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Bendersender

petaj

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

petaj 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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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-02-08: 03:25:00
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!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-04-28: 00:22:00
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James