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DEFINITION: n., The uneasiness, social discomfort, and impending sense of doom which occurs when you realize that you've sent out a few too many emails after drinking way too much. v., To worry about your social status after a night of heavy drinking and stupid emailing.

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Tipsymailaise

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: tip-see-mail-ayz

Sentence: After a night of pounding down shots, singing rousing bouts of "What Shall We Do With a Drunken Mailer?", and sending out dozens of Jack Danmails, Bob awoke to an In Box full of hate mail, three computer viruses, and a heavy sense of tipsymailaise.

Etymology: tipsy, email, malaise

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COMMENTS:

Sounds like a fairly nasty dis e-ase - galwaywegian, 2008-02-08: 06:28:00

Terrific Puns ... Double Funs! Can I get tipsymalise from the fumes when I open JackDanmails? - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 11:25:00

nice one purple and now I've got that song n my head for the rest of the day - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-08: 12:46:00

picabomama I especially like the reference Jack Danmails in the sentence. - picabomama, 2008-02-09: 07:59:00

Great sentence; luv the word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-10: 16:52:00

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Inebremorsemail

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: in-ebe-re-MORS-e-mayl

Sentence: When Darryl awoke after his on line ventures while totally blotto and saw the entries in his email 'sent messages' folder he had a massive attack of inebremorsemail.

Etymology: Blend of inebriated, remorse, and email

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COMMENTS:

Good word, the remorse the merrier! - Nosila, 2008-12-04: 00:47:00

metrohumanx Cunning combo, M! - metrohumanx, 2008-12-04: 01:30:00

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Bloghensive

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: blog/hen/sive

Sentence: With all his true thoughts about his boss and his friends sent at the height true spiritual drunkedness, he was bloghensive of the feedback about to come his way.

Etymology: blog + apprehensive

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COMMENTS:

Excellent! Bloghensive cuts right to the heart of that feeling! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 10:34:00

Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-10: 16:48:00

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Egret

picabomama

Created by: picabomama

Pronunciation: like regret, drop the first R

Sentence: It was the morning after the big celebration and Dmitri woke in a puddle of his own sick. Worried that he may have defiled his prized laptop, he gingerly tapped the mouse and waited. What he found was a fully operational computer, buzzing with reply e-mails. The previous evening's activities came into sharper focus as he scanned the subject lines in his in-box. His EGRET reached it's zenith as he read the e-mail firing him from the very job promotion he had been celebrating.

Etymology: regret, and e-mail

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COMMENTS:

Excellent! Short and right to the point! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 18:12:00

Great verboticism - Mustang, 2008-02-09: 04:10:00

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Coronohnoa

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: kor - oh - no - no - ah

Sentence: Karen thought she heard Noah muttering his own name over and over in the office but when she got up and went in there, she had an interesting discovery. Noah was slumped over his computer, babbling drunkenly coronohnoa, coronohnoa over and over. When she saw the empty bottles of Corona and the emails he had sent to his boss, she doubted he would still have a job on Monday morning.

Etymology: Corona (brand of beer)+ oh no!

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Doomerang

Created by: littorally

Pronunciation:

Sentence: The sense of pending disaster as whatever you did starts to turn and head back at you.

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

Good word...through in a pronounciation and etymology and you could get more points and be in line for the fabulous Verbotomy Trophy and Crown! - Nosila, 2008-12-03: 20:53:00

metrohumanx DOOMERANG is a great word- I wish you'd written more... - metrohumanx, 2008-12-04: 16:34:00

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Clicksand

Created by: Magnetic

Pronunciation: klik - sand

Sentence: Knowing there was nothing he could do to fix the inevitable drunken harm he'd done at the keyboard the previous night, Bob accepted the impending reprocussions as he stewed in his own clicksand.

Etymology: click (computer or texting) + (quick)sand + click send (modified past tense of clicking the send button to send an email that now cannot be unsent)

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COMMENTS:

Excellent choice of words well blended into into a simple clear-meaning catchy verboticism. Reprocussions is a nifty one, too. Excellent creations! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 11:30:00

fantastic word - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-08: 12:47:00

absolutely great! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-10: 16:40:00

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Drunkzmailz

Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: Drunks-mails

Sentence: Dimwhitter Derloke had a very bad habit of sending drunkzmailz speaking his inebriated mind...when he should have gone to sleep instead of typing drunk.

Etymology: A play on the words Drunks and Mails.

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Cyboozeled

Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /sai-BOO-zuhld/

Sentence: Jack had written a note to himself, "Don't drink and e-mail" on his sticky-note pad, which he had apparently been using as a beer coaster, but the next morning as he perused his 'Sent' folder and saw the e-mail to his boss, calling him a "sissyboy", he knew he'd cyboozeled himself out of another job. He laid his throbbing head down next to the phone to await the inevitable call to inform him of his unemployed status.

Etymology: cyber - as in 'cyberspace' (slang for electronic communication) + booze - any alcoholic beverage (from Middle Dutch, busen "to drink heavily") & foozled - bungled; played clumsily (golf slang; Perhaps from German dial., fuseln "work poorly or slowly")

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I like the originality in your choice of words and their blending. Good one! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 18:18:00

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Treyall

Created by: valevans

Pronunciation: tre-awl

Sentence: Jimmmy was drinking all night with friends and woke up with many messages about messages he had sent to his boss. "Oh man I treyalled...." he said.

Etymology: trey-unknown contact, all-embarrassment by others

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-02-08: 03:25:00
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James

Tigger - 2008-02-08: 14:30:00
Ahh, e-mail and alcohol... They go together like peas and carrots, or like 'lack of inhibition' and 'lack of employment',

- 2008-02-26: 00:18:00
You hit my head with the bottle!

- 2008-02-26: 00:22:00
twice now!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-04-28: 00:22:00
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James