Verboticisms

Created by: Scattercat

Pronunciation: PEHS-tur-link

Sentence: A long night of pesterlinking her professors, begging for second chances, was followed by crying herself to sleep and a morning of moping in bed.

Etymology: Pestering, as annoying, and link as reminiscent of hypertext connections.

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Created by: frosteefire

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Created by: cascadingstylesheet

Pronunciation: mis-sage

Sentence: Despite receiving twenty bounced emails from Jason, Kylie still felt compelled to repeatedly missage him.

Etymology: From miss (to fail to hit) and message (a communication containing some information).

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COMMENTS:

nice etymology - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-24: 14:19:00

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Created by: allie123

Pronunciation: veks - in - eyt

Sentence: Kelly became really vexinated when she realized that all her emails were being rejected

Etymology: VEXINATE - verb - from VEX (infuriate; exasperate) + ate (from communicate)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: ee mo tik kon fuze

Sentence: After their passionate one night stand, Erin had e-mailed Derrin hundreds of times. His non-response, in fact returned e-mails, had the affect to emoticonfuse her and make her wonder where she went wrong. Being rejected in person was bad enough, but being e-jected was even worse to someone like Erin who lived her life on-line.

Etymology: Emoticon (a representation of a facial expression (as a smile or frown) created by typing a sequence of characters in sending email) & Confuse (be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly;cause to feel embarrassment)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: fish ap poynt

Sentence: Eudora had been having an e-mail relationship with Dick, whom she had met on a dating website, "lonelyloserswhowant tomeetotherlonelylosers.com". He could not have been sweeter, telling all the lovely things she had ever wanted to hear. He knew a lot about her, but wanted to know more. Like where she banked (and her account number)and her daily routine. After she had told him all about herself, the e-mails slowed down and the last few she had sent him kept bouncing back as undeliverable. Naive as she was, she realized that he was losing interest rapidly and she could not even contact him. He was about to really phishappoint her more the next time she used her debit card!

Etymology: Phish (The act of sending email that falsely claims to be from a legitimate organization) & Disappoint (fail to meet the hopes or expectations of)

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: mah-so-ee-mail-kist

Sentence: Mabel masoemailchisted herself today one last time before giving Chad the old heave ho.

Etymology: masochist + email

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Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: bounce - e - mote

Sentence: I couldn't help myself, every rejected email caused me to bouncemote all over again.

Etymology: bounce (as in a bounced email) + emote (to express emotion, especially in an excessive or theatrical manner)... also has a nice sound play on 'email'

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Created by: grasshopper

Pronunciation: sin/der/gas/ted

Sentence: I have been flabbergasted but I never thought i would be sindergasted

Etymology: sinder/to send, flabbergasted/dumbfounded or taken aback by something

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Created by: Paulefinch

Pronunciation: ee-pross-trick-ate

Sentence: Kelly kept eProstricating herself sending more and more emails to her exboyfriend.

Etymology: e+prostrate+subjugate

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