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DEFINITION: A psychological dependency on electronic messaging which often leads to compulsive emailing, even among people who are sitting inches apart.
Verboticisms
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Technopendent
Created by: futebollounge
Pronunciation: tek-no-pen-dent
Sentence: Michael, who was technopendant all his life vomited during his first encounter with Alice, the girl he met on myspace.
Etymology: developed 5 minutes ago in my filthy brain
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COMMENTS:
awesome word u win :) - futebollounge, 2007-08-29: 16:51:00
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Technopend
Created by: qcpbraca
Pronunciation: Tech-no-pend
Sentence: He is such a technopend, he just simply can't leave his computer when we are about to go out, he always say "just one minute more, i need to read this email"
Etymology:
Emailosis
Created by: cujoe
Pronunciation: E-mail-o-sis
Sentence: He emailed her when she was 3 feet away! He has a bad case of Emailosis.
Etymology: Combination of Email and psychosis.
Yahoophoria
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: Ya-who-four-ee-ya
Sentence: Dennis spent most of his day in a state of Yahoophoria, compulsively chacking his email and im-ing his cubicle mate.
Etymology: Yahoo (email, IM service) and euphoria
Emal
Created by: FreeToys
Pronunciation: e' - Mal
Sentence: The scientists at the Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory were enraged when Verbotomy absconded their acronym, to, oddly enough, describe a condition that most of them also shared.
Etymology: Maladjusted/eMailing
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COMMENTS:
It wouldn't let me change the spelling to eMal - FreeToys, 2007-08-29: 10:41:00
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Eddicted
Created by: IneffableDawn
Pronunciation: ee-dik-ted
Sentence: Bob was so eddicted that his college professor had to email him with a message that said, "Yes, Bob?" When he raised his hand in class.
Etymology: E: From 'e-mail' ddicted: from 'addicted'
Imoholic
Created by: sevith
Pronunciation: eye-em-oh-HALL-ic
Sentence: My sister Cathy e-mailed me about an e-mail. Clearly an IMoholic
Etymology: IM short for instant message. -Oholic name of the patron saint of Oxycontin
Comments:
jadakiss98682 - 2007-08-29: 17:02:00
click on stewhawk and check the etymology of the word. it only makes sense
jadakiss98682 - 2007-08-29: 18:01:00
stewhawk = stephen hawking awesome :)