Verboticisms

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.

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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)

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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: evthalia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Invisible internet barriers prevented her inteded action(s) from materializing resulting in strong negative emotional overflow.

Etymology:

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: e/bound

Sentence: Her emails to Jordan were ebounded immediately with the message "Delivery Notification - Failure". She was sure it was deliberate and that she was on the ebound.

Etymology: e + rebound

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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: rikboyee

Pronunciation: send-sah-tiv

Sentence: staring at the growing list of rejected emails, with my lip quivering uncontrollably, i realised i was becoming far to sendsitive

Etymology: send, sensitive

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: dee-mon-stra-ted

Sentence: Marla became more and more daemonstrated by the bounced emails in her inbox. Every one of them said Mailer-daemon@hercompany.com. She wondered if she should contact a priest to exorcise the mysterious, evil entity in her computer who foiled her attempts to contact the cute guy in shipping.

Etymology: daemon: a mail server program that runs in the background; maildaemon@___.com is the message one gets when an email is bounced for some reason such as an incorrect address or a domain is on a blacklist(term comes from Greek Mythology meaning a Guardian Spirit) + frustrated: having one's plans foiled + demonstrated: incapable of being disputed

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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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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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