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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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Stalkobsession
Created by: bubbos
Pronunciation: Stalk-ob-session
Sentence: After 100 emails she knows she has to stop this stalkobsession before she becomes suicidal
Etymology: Stalker - person who won't stop pestering someone else. Obsession - a scary wanting of something that is unattainable
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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Bouncemote
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'
Deesappointment
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: dees/app/oint/ment
Sentence: Deesappointment occurs when one emails fruitlessly.
Etymology: disappointment + e
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
Missage
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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Cybergravate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: SYE - ber - gruh - vayt
Sentence: Lucinda continued to cybergravte herself daily by sending countless numbers of emails to her friends long after they had taken up text messaging for their personal communications.
Etymology: Blend of 'cyber' and 'aggravate'.
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COMMENTS:
nice blend - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-24: 14:14:00
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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)
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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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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