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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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Ebound
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: e/bound
Sentence: Jenny's e-mails to Joe were ebounded immediately with the message "Delivery Notification - Failure". She was sure it was deliberate and that she was on the ebound.
Etymology: EBOUND - verb - from E-MAIL + REBOUND
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COMMENTS:
Me likey. - lumina, 2008-07-24: 16:07:00
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Emobilized
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ee/mow/bill/eyesd
Sentence: Jill was completely emobilized by her empty inbox. All of her heartfelt notes were flying around in cyberspace, rejected.
Etymology: email + immobilize + emotion
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COMMENTS:
This word has a 90% chance of entering the English Internet lexicon. It could be the next "moar." - jadenguy, 2007-05-30: 09:38:00
jadenguy - you must be friends with ziggy41 - he's a numbers person too - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-30: 14:19:00
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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
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
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.
Emangle
Created by: ngajoe
Pronunciation: E-main-GULL
Sentence: Kelly's emanglement grew with every passing pop-up.
Etymology:
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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Daemonstrated
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
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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Today's definition was suggested by iwasatripwire. Thank you iwasatripwire. ~ James