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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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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.
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'
Sendsitive
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
Phishappoint
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: fish ap poynt
Sentence: Eudora had been having an e-mail relationship with Dick, whom she had met on a dating website, "lonelyloserswhowant tomeetotherlonelylosers.com". He could not have been sweeter, telling all the lovely things she had ever wanted to hear. He knew a lot about her, but wanted to know more. Like where she banked (and her account number)and her daily routine. After she had told him all about herself, the e-mails slowed down and the last few she had sent him kept bouncing back as undeliverable. Naive as she was, she realized that he was losing interest rapidly and she could not even contact him. He was about to really phishappoint her more the next time she used her debit card!
Etymology: Phish (The act of sending email that falsely claims to be from a legitimate organization) & Disappoint (fail to meet the hopes or expectations of)
Egloomerang
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: ee-GLOOM-uhr-rang
Sentence: Alex got hit with an egloomerang when his girlfriend who "supposedly" couldn't read his e-mail refused to respond to his request to meet at the malt shop.
Etymology: e-mail + gloom + boomerang
Cyberized
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: si-ber-ized
Sentence: Sickorina was obviously cyberized by her unsuccessful attempts in trying to stalk the former guy she dated one time.
Etymology: Cyber - of, relating to, or characteristic of the culture of computers, information technology, and virtual reality. Ized - Just made up, to show...one who is in the act of crazy overkill messaging.
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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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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Eprostricate
Created by: Paulefinch
Pronunciation: ee-pross-trick-ate
Sentence: Kelly kept eProstricating herself sending more and more emails to her exboyfriend.
Etymology: e+prostrate+subjugate
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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