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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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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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Jerkmail
Created by: hooterbug
Pronunciation: jûrk meyl
Sentence: Brian was ecstatic that his new Jerkmail filter was working correctly after dumping his E-Stalker girlfriend Susan
Etymology: Blend of Jerk + Junkmail
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COMMENTS:
ooh - that's a bit harsh - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-24: 14:18:00
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Pesterlink
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.
Messedgy
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: mess-eh-jee
Sentence: Sue was becoming quite messedgy - it was obvious that her e-mails to her latest boyfriend were being returned.
Etymology: message, edgy (anxious and irritable)
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COMMENTS:
hey purple - you must have had a wild memorial day weekend to be logging in so late - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-30: 11:59:00
Oh yeah, I've been off of work since Saturday! Unfortunately, I didn't have much fun, the yard work got out of hand, the garden needed planting, and I was up to my knees in mouse turds at the cabin. Think I'll suggest a definition for a really gross task... - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-30: 12:05:00
I'm sure it will all pay off - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-30: 12:40:00
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Sendergasted
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
Masoemailchist
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
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
Redingusend
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: REE-DEEN-GUSS-SEND
Sentence: Fran sent so many e-mails to her department head that she forgot what they were about................... "I just can't REDINGUSEND any more!" she cried in frustration. Ultimately, she was reduced to posting a note on his office door: "READ YOUR ****ing E-MAIL ALREADY !" .........reDINGusend................
Etymology: RE+DINGUS+SEND.........................REpeatedly+DINGUS-one whose name is forgotten or unknown+SEND-a futile repetitive cyberage attempt to communicate.
Correspondespondency
Created by: jerschneid
Pronunciation: COR-RE-SPON-DE-SPON-DEN-CY
Sentence: With every bounced email to my ex-girlfriend, my correspondespondency grows.
Etymology: a combination of "correspondence" and "despondency"
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COMMENTS:
excellent word - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-24: 14:20:00
Perfect! - lumina, 2008-07-24: 16:08:00
I like it. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-25: 17:43:00
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Bounceeblues
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: bou n see blooze
Sentence: The bounceeblues really hurt, especially as this was her first experience of being the bouncee. That's that she cried, I'm finished with e-males forever.
Etymology: bounce blues bouncee as in victim.
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COMMENTS:
maybe she hit the bounceebooze after her rejection and became a bounceebluesboozehound - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-30: 10:50:00
if she fell in an inebriation state, and got a bouncebluesboozebruise? - jadenguy, 2007-05-30: 12:45:00
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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!
http://www.etiquettehell.com/content/eh_main/gen/eh_index.shtml
I'm going to REDINGUSEND all you verbotomists!
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Today's definition was suggested by iwasatripwire. Thank you iwasatripwire. ~ James