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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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Egloomerang
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: ee-GLOOM-uhr-rang
Sentence: Alex got hit with an egloomerang when his girlfriend who "supposedly" couldn't read his e-mail refused to respond to his request to meet at the malt shop.
Etymology: e-mail + gloom + boomerang
Ebound
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ēbound
Sentence: She was on the ebound when she met Gig. All those other addresses had been so rude as to reject her advances but Gig not only had room for her, he welcomed her with an open portal.
Etymology: email (messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network) + rebound (still affected by the emotional distress caused by the ending of a romantic or sexual relationship)
Emailsculated
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ee/male/scu/lay/ted
Sentence: Chris felt totally emailsculated by his empty inbox. All of his heartfelt notes were flying around in cyberspace, rejected.
Etymology: email + emasculated
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COMMENTS:
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww - hooterbug, 2008-07-24: 07:59:00
Nice word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-25: 17:43:00
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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
Daemonstrated
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: dee-mon-stra-ted
Sentence: Marla became more and more daemonstrated by the bounced emails in her inbox. Every one of them said Mailer-daemon@hercompany.com. She wondered if she should contact a priest to exorcise the mysterious, evil entity in her computer who foiled her attempts to contact the cute guy in shipping.
Etymology: daemon: a mail server program that runs in the background; maildaemon@___.com is the message one gets when an email is bounced for some reason such as an incorrect address or a domain is on a blacklist(term comes from Greek Mythology meaning a Guardian Spirit) + frustrated: having one's plans foiled + demonstrated: incapable of being disputed
Pesterlink
Created by: Scattercat
Pronunciation: PEHS-tur-link
Sentence: A long night of pesterlinking her professors, begging for second chances, was followed by crying herself to sleep and a morning of moping in bed.
Etymology: Pestering, as annoying, and link as reminiscent of hypertext connections.
Spamwalling
Created by: scissorjammer
Pronunciation:
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Etymology: from Stonewalling
Emailody
Created by: nbsalomon
Pronunciation: ee-mayle-uh-dee
Sentence: My emailody was caused by my boyfriend.
Etymology: from email and malody
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!
http://www.etiquettehell.com/content/eh_main/gen/eh_index.shtml
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Today's definition was suggested by iwasatripwire. Thank you iwasatripwire. ~ James