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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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Sendstricken
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: send - strik - en
Sentence: When Jeremiah did not receive any of the dozens of emails that Patty send him, she was simply sendstricken.
Etymology: send, stricken
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
Mailgorge
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.
Emangle
Created by: ngajoe
Pronunciation: E-main-GULL
Sentence: Kelly's emanglement grew with every passing pop-up.
Etymology:
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
Egitated
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: e/gi/ta/ted
Sentence: Sally was very egitated that her emails to Jordan were returned with the message "Delivery Notification - Failure" .
Etymology: e + agitated
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COMMENTS:
e-strordinary - Nosila, 2009-12-11: 23:07:00
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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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Emailody
Created by: nbsalomon
Pronunciation: ee-mayle-uh-dee
Sentence: My emailody was caused by my boyfriend.
Etymology: from email and malody
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
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