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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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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"
Ebutted
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: e-buht-ed
Sentence: Ken compulsively ebutted his cubicle partner then elbowed him in the ribs.
Etymology: e - from electronic (as in email) and abutted - to touch at the edge.
Socialelectrono
Created by: pinkpearls94
Pronunciation: social-electrouno
Sentence:
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.
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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Jerkmailiac
Created by: noztril
Pronunciation: jurk mayl ee ak
Sentence: Sanford is a jerkmailiac
Etymology: jerk + junkmail + insomniac
Deposeate
Created by: skepsis
Pronunciation: de-pose-e-ate
Sentence: Billy-bob, a huge deposeate, keeps texting me from upstairs.
Etymology: depend close communicate
Asciphilia
Created by: DrHarvey
Pronunciation: Ass-key-fill-eya
Sentence: I've managed to impress the girl across from me at the library - I think - though our relationship is purely asciphilic.
Etymology: 'Ascii' - form of digital text or code '-philia' - from the Greek 'to love'
Eqwertyosis
Created by: apathy42
Pronunciation: E-quer-tee-OH-sis
Sentence: Tim's eqwertyosis led him to develop calluses on his thumbs when he got his Blackjack.
Etymology: E from e-mail, qwerty from the keyboard style, -osis latin root for mental disorder.
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 :)