Verboticism: Lostalgia
DEFINITION: v. To fret and worry after the accidental trashing of an important document, file or friend. n. The state of anxiety caused by an accidental deletion.
Lostalgia
Created by: Autolupus
Pronunciation: los-tal' ji-ə
Sentence: She realised what she'd done, she'd deleted his number! Now all that was left was an empty pang of lostalgia.
Etymology: [O.E.&Gr. losian, to be a loss & algos, pain.]
Points: 725
Comments: Lostalgia
silveryaspen - 2008-03-05: 13:21:00
Portraying this aspect is very nice originality!
Jabberwocky - 2008-03-05: 15:51:00
excellent start - great word
purpleartichokes - 2008-03-05: 19:34:00
Yep, I love it! Reminds me of shredding the 10-year-old divorce papers.
kashman - 2008-03-09: 00:42:00
Brilliant...