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DEFINITION: v. intr. To frustrate oneself by sending emails to someone who cannot receive them, especially when "over quota". n. An emotional response to bounced-back email.
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Emailsculated
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ee/male/scu/lay/ted
Sentence: Chris felt totally emailsculated by his empty inbox. All of his heartfelt notes were flying around in cyberspace, rejected.
Etymology: email + emasculated
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COMMENTS:
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww - hooterbug, 2008-07-24: 07:59:00
Nice word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-25: 17:43:00
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Quotancholy
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈkwoʊdənˌkɑly/
Sentence: The quotancholy overtook me mere hours after she left for work. Why hadn't she cleared out enough room in her inbox for the 29 funny videos that I forwarded her?
Etymology: From quota + melancholy
Deliveryfailuretotalprostration
Created by: jadenguy
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "DFTP," he said to his flatmate, "I'll never get a message to her before she leaves for the airport. Arianna, WHY???"
Etymology: "Delivery Failure Notification" + "Total Prostration"
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COMMENTS:
wow, It's like,like reading a novel... what happens next??!1,LOL Great word and sentence! Grasshopper - grasshopper, 2007-05-30: 11:05:00
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Mailgorge
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: mAYL- GOR -J
Sentence: after sending his ex one email, he felt he might as well send her another and another and before he knew it the mailgorging had begun again. Tomorrow, he thought, i'll start the 12 point progrtamme again.
Etymology: MAIL- POST OF ELECTRONIC OR PAPER VARIETY. GORGE - TO GIVE IN TO YOUR APPETITES AND KEEP FEEDING THEM BEYOND REASONABLE SATIETY.
Emangle
Created by: ngajoe
Pronunciation: E-main-GULL
Sentence: Kelly's emanglement grew with every passing pop-up.
Etymology:
Daemonstrate
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: DEY - mohn - streyt
Sentence: Shirley was daemonstrated after she saw his inbox flooded with rejection e-mails. She died of suffocation when her tears dried up and turned to salt and was stuck in her nostrils because of the radiation her monitor was emitting. I guess daemonstration could really kill you.
Etymology: daemon [mailer daemon] + demonstrate [to show clearly] + frustrate [to have feelings of discouragement] + devastate
Ejectshun
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ējektshən
Sentence: Gloria couldn’t help but feel ejectshun when every e-mail she sent out bounced back. Turns out most of her friends are just as lazy as she is about clearing old e-mails.
Etymology: e (electronic) + rejection (refuse to agree) + shun (persistently avoid, ignore, or reject)
Inboxicated
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: in/box/i/cated
Sentence: Jill was sure Marvin had bought some kind of program that would make it look as though his inbox was too full to accept incoming email. She could not pull away however, having become inboxicated with her love for him.
Etymology: derived from intoxicated: Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol).
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COMMENTS:
funny! - reverb, 2008-07-25: 17:16:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by iwasatripwire. Thank you iwasatripwire! ~ James
iwasatripwire - 2007-05-31: 10:41:00
The drawing kind of looks like me, too!
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