Verboticisms

Created by: Buzzardbilly

Pronunciation: ən-ˈdü-blüz

Sentence: No undo! No undo! Oh, crap and criminy, struck by the undoblues. Why can't there be undo for everything?

Etymology: undo + blues

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: er mayl

Sentence: When Sid sent out that message to all his friends, co-workers and relatives about his boss, it was obviously an errmail. The witty but ascerbic content of his comments was undermined by his spelling and grammar errors, to the point that the message was all but indecipherable. Sid learned that day that if you send out a chablis-mail, you need to follow it with an apology-mail!

Etymology: Err (mistake;incorrect) & Mail ( the system whereby messages are transmitted) & e-mail (electronic mail) & Wordplay on airmail

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Created by: Ransom

Pronunciation: ee-MAYL-an-kahl-ee

Sentence: Jocelyn was filled with emailancholy after she accidentally sent a message riddled with comma splices.

Etymology: email + melancholy

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COMMENTS:

Awesome! - Tesher, 2007-12-05: 09:22:00

I like it! - Mustang, 2007-12-05: 17:12:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: air/mail

Sentence: Joe lost his last job when he errmailed the boss telling her that she was a complete and total toxic manager.

Etymology: ERRMAIL - ERR + MAIL

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COMMENTS:

Been there, done that. Great word. - Mustang, 2008-10-29: 06:46:00

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Created by: zavijava

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Joe suffered from severe emorse when he realized that he had accidentally sent his angry rant about work to his boss, Don, and not his buddy, Dan.

Etymology: email+remorse

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: rue + sent

Sentence: I deeply, deeply ruesent having forwarded the profanity-laced rant to every single person in my company, including the CEO.

Etymology: It's sort of like resent, only with the idea of rueing what one has sent.

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Created by: Bullwinkle

Pronunciation: Un-do-bare'ess-ment

Sentence: Sending that E-mail to my entire address book was the height of undobarassment.

Etymology: un-do + embarassed

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: mis-ee-meyl

Sentence: She missemailed so many times that her co-workers started calling her "missy-missy-missemail."

Etymology: miss (as in regret) + email

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Created by: looseball

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: Zingerflipper: Zing-her-flip-her

Sentence: Oh, no! Blasted zingerflipper sent that email out half written!

Etymology: A zinger commonly refers to a mistake. Flipper is a combination of flip and finger to mean a slip of the finger. Thus zingerflipper means sending an email with mistakes or mistakenly ... by a mistaken flip of the finger!

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COMMENTS:

Please be kind ... this is my first time playing verbotomy. - silveryaspen, 2007-12-05: 14:11:00

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