Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: oh nooo mayl

Sentence: Mr. Bill had composed an e-mail to vent his frustrations with his arch-enemy, Sluggo. Sluggo was a bully who tortured and maimed Mr. Bill regularly. When he got the venom off his chest and onto written format, he felt much better. Unfortunately, he accidentally pressed send and the ohnooomail was dispatched to Sluggo's computer. After he regained conciousness, Mr. Bill was full of e-comtrition and vowed to never use his e-mail for evil again.

Etymology: Oh noooo (regret;lament;remorse) & E-mail (communicate electronically on the computer) & Mr Bill (a Saturday Night Live play-doh character and cult figure whose catchphrase was oh noooo! as he met misfortune each week.)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ēgret

Sentence: Ralph likes living on the edge. When his boss pisses him off will sit down and compose a terse email. He will blast the Mr. Leadbritches with every rude comment he can muster. He then deletes his scorching missive and feels better about himself. Today is different. Today he is full of egret. As he attempted to delete his email he accidentally clicked on send. He wonders where he will be working after the boss arrives and reads his email.

Etymology: email (messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network) + regret (feel sad, repentant, or disappointed over something that has happened or been done)

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Created by: thebaron

Pronunciation: cy-ber-gasp

Sentence: Jeffery let out an enormous cybergasp when he hit 'all reply.' The naked pictures from the office party weren't supposed to go to his boss...

Etymology: cyber (internet land) gasp (intake of breath in horror)

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Created by: kimmer61

Pronunciation:

Sentence: "I really screwed up today when I accidentally sent a disremailage to my mom."

Etymology:

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Created by: zxvasdf

Pronunciation: E mail stake

Sentence: He knew he needed some more coffee when he did his third mailstake.

Etymology: Email (send a message electronically) & mistake (to make an error)

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Created by: AetherSeed

Pronunciation: Ee-mahl-if-eyed

Sentence: When John accidentally sent pictures of the broken drain pipes in his house to his boss rather than his plumber via email, he was utterly emalified.

Etymology: A mix of 'email' and 'mal' (from 'malus', bad in Latin).

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: may-l-oh-know-sis

Sentence: Not realizing that chardonnay and email don't mix, Cassidy told her boss how she really felt about him, only to have a moment of mailohnosis once she hit the send key, realizing that'd he'd actually read her belittling rant about him.

Etymology: mail + oh no + sis - i wonder if i can make every word this week end in -osis.

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COMMENTS:

I think this word has great symbiosis. - Tigger, 2007-12-05: 16:34:00

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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: 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: LotusB

Pronunciation: Re-CALL-a-gast

Sentence:

Etymology: Recall (act of un-sending an email) + Aghast (anxoiusness) = Recallaghast

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