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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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Maladrink
Created by: thegoatisbad
Pronunciation: mal-a-drink
Sentence: "I hadn't been drinking alcohol" Kimberly insisted, "when I sent out that office-wide e-mail." Although few people believed her, Kimberly was telling the truth: she had been drinking an unfortunate combination of 5 Hour Energy and Monster Juice when she informed everyone of her intention to press charges against sweaters for being lazy.
Etymology: Maladroit (unskillful; awkward) + Drink
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COMMENTS:
Maliciously good word - Nosila, 2010-04-28: 16:47:00
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Treyall
Created by: valevans
Pronunciation: tre-awl
Sentence: Jimmmy was drinking all night with friends and woke up with many messages about messages he had sent to his boss. "Oh man I treyalled...." he said.
Etymology: trey-unknown contact, all-embarrassment by others
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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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
Egret
Created by: picabomama
Pronunciation: like regret, drop the first R
Sentence: It was the morning after the big celebration and Dmitri woke in a puddle of his own sick. Worried that he may have defiled his prized laptop, he gingerly tapped the mouse and waited. What he found was a fully operational computer, buzzing with reply e-mails. The previous evening's activities came into sharper focus as he scanned the subject lines in his in-box. His EGRET reached it's zenith as he read the e-mail firing him from the very job promotion he had been celebrating.
Etymology: regret, and e-mail
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COMMENTS:
Excellent! Short and right to the point! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 18:12:00
Great verboticism - Mustang, 2008-02-09: 04:10:00
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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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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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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: blog + apprehensive
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COMMENTS:
Excellent! Bloghensive cuts right to the heart of that feeling! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 10:34:00
Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-10: 16:48:00
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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)
Emailarrhea
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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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