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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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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
Technosloth
Created by: Neej13
Pronunciation: TEK-no-sloth
Sentence: A true technosloth, Barry preferred to email his cubicle neighbor about whether he'd attend today's meeting, rather than respond directly.
Etymology: Technology + sloth
Stewhawk
Created by: jadakiss98682
Pronunciation: stew-hawk
Sentence: *Sees two people on their laptops flirting. "get off the laptop and tap that you stewhawk!"
Etymology: stephen hawking was the influence on this one...... considering the fact that the man is scared to speak out of his own mouth :))) i still love you stewie
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COMMENTS:
so creative sooo so much - jadakiss98682, 2007-08-29: 17:01:00
pretty clever - futebollounge, 2007-08-29: 17:03:00
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Re: pulsive
Created by: Nicked
Pronunciation: re puls iv
Sentence: When I discovered that I would rather send an email to his cell phone than to walk into the next room to speak to him in person, I knew I was re: pulsive.
Etymology: Re: Email speak for "in response to" + pulsive from compulsive
Deftmutism
Created by: srjones
Pronunciation: deft-mute-izm
Sentence: We don't talk anymore just chat due to his deftmutism.
Etymology:
Eddiction
Created by: greystarling
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Man, I gotta cure me of this eddiction, it's getting out of hand - I'm checking my email in my sleep!
Etymology: compound noun from "e" of electronic (eg. email, ebook), and "addiction"
Etardation
Created by: joelb
Pronunciation: e-tard-ay-shun
Sentence: His etardation reached it's pinnacle when he requested a video conference from across the room.
Etymology: e (for electronic, like in e-mail) + retardation
Freakomailogy
Created by: Poeiden
Pronunciation: free-ko-mai-lo-gy
Sentence: Bob the computer technician suffers from an occupational hazard of freakomailogy.
Etymology: freak + mail +psychoLOGY
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 :)