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'Fell asleep at the keyboard again...'

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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Digigret

Created by: jranderson22

Pronunciation: dih-jee-gret

Sentence: I had a creeping sense of digigret that only worsened when I took a look inside my sent folder.

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

You really gave the finger to digigret! (lol) I'm wondering what other daring deeds those creeping digits did to cause digigret? Very funny verboticism! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 21:24:00

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Spinagleyikes

metrohumanx

Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: spin-AG-lay-ikes

Sentence: After consuming several bottles of fine New Jersy wine, Tommy savored the intimate caress of the cool floor tiles and realized that he WASN'T going to die just yet. When his glasses de-fogged, he checked the "sent" folder on his laptop and the SPINAGEYIKES gripped him like the angry fist of an ourang-outang. Giselle would certainly never speak to him again, his co-workers would treat him like a leper on the morrow, and his boss would NEVER let him take a week off work to go to that wordsmith festival in the desert. Trembling with SPINAGLEYIKES, Tommy realized that his best career option might be to: cut the soles off his shoes, live in a cave and learn to play the nose flute.

Etymology: SPIN+AGLEY+yIKES=SPINAGLEYIKES..........SPIN:to revolve rapidly,gyrate,to feel as if in a whirl,reel,to move swiftly especially on or as if on wheels or in a vehicle from hell,to fall in a spin,to plunge helplessly and out of control;Middle English spinnen, from Old English spinnan; akin to Old High German spinnan to spin and perhaps to Lithuanian spęsti to set (a trap).....AGLEY:chiefly Scottish, awry ,terribly wrong (the best-laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley);Scots, from 1a- + gley to squint.....YIKES: exclamation,used to express fear or astonishment; probably alteration of yoicks (origin kind of blurry)

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COMMENTS:

metrohumanx Please stagger outside on December 13th & 14th and enjoy the GEMINIDS meteor shower.... - metrohumanx, 2008-12-03: 01:50:00

interesting word and etymology and sentence. - silveryaspen, 2008-12-03: 15:35:00

metrohumanx Thank you, silveryaspen! It's time we got some NEW challenges, yes? - metrohumanx, 2008-12-03: 16:29:00

Everybody needs a break now and then, and it is probably for a very good reason, so just be patient. - silveryaspen, 2008-12-03: 17:17:00

metrohumanx Quite right. Thank you. - metrohumanx, 2008-12-03: 23:40:00

Uniquely pleasing - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-05: 03:08:00

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Alcqwerty

Created by: loxhobabl

Pronunciation: al-kwur-tee

Sentence: Alcqwerty and boredom led to my rant on IM yesterday morning.

Etymology: alcohol + QWERTY

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Imeffed

hyperborean

Created by: hyperborean

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I looked at my phone this morning and realized iMeffed.

Etymology: i as in iPhone and effed as euphemism for f#!@ed.

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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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COMMENTS:

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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Innebrigret

Created by: Niktionary

Pronunciation: e-neeb-ree-gret

Sentence: I knew when I woke up Sun. Morning wearing a tu-tu with my best friend's pug, I knew it would be a long time before I would get rid of this innebrigret.

Etymology: inebriated+ regret

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COMMENTS:

Darling image! Fungood! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 10:10:00

Excellent word! - Mustang, 2008-02-09: 04:11:00

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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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Statusinfraction

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: sta/tus/in/frac/shun

Sentence: I got me some statusinfraction I tried to get a girl reaction 'Now I'll cry and I'll cry and I'll cry and I'll cry I can't get no, I can't get no

Etymology: status + infraction + satisfaction (Rolling Stones)

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Good one, Jaggerwocky - emdeejay, 2008-12-03: 06:16:00

metrohumanx Doctor, please...some more of these... - metrohumanx, 2008-12-03: 16:37:00

Top of the Charts! Music to my ears! - silveryaspen, 2008-12-03: 17:10:00

Good thing Time is on My Side, Jumpin Jack Flash! - Nosila, 2008-12-04: 00:46:00

very nice - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-05: 03:07:00

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Maladrink

thegoatisbad

Created by: thegoatisbad

Pronunciation: mal-a-drink

Sentence: "I hadn't been drinking alcohol" Kimberly insisted, "when I sent out that office-wide e-mail." Although few people believed her, Kimberly was telling the truth: she had been drinking an unfortunate combination of 5 Hour Energy and Monster Juice when she informed everyone of her intention to press charges against sweaters for being lazy.

Etymology: Maladroit (unskillful; awkward) + Drink

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COMMENTS:

Maliciously good word - Nosila, 2010-04-28: 16:47:00

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Treemulous

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: treem/u/lus

Sentence: He was treemulous as he slunk silently to his desk, hoping a new virus had attacked during the night and wiped out his caustic emails.

Etymology: tremulous + e (as in email)

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COMMENTS:

Embedding the e(mail) within tremulous was very creative! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 10:55:00

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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