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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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Egnominy

DaddyNewt

Created by: DaddyNewt

Pronunciation: eeg/NOM/uh/nee

Sentence: Even his throbbing head didn't overshadow Sam's feeling of egnominy.

Etymology: e(ubiquitous as in email) + ignominy

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Alcoherence

Created by: bigveg

Pronunciation: al-co-heer-ence

Sentence: Consciousness returned to him gradually, as did the catalogue of transmissions which were sublimely alcoherent. They made no sense!

Etymology: alcohol, coherence

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Bendersender

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: ben-der-sen-der

Sentence: A chill went through Cheryl as the third person directed a cold shoulder in her direction. Was this a harBINGEr of doom? That old bendersender feeling returned when she got to her desk, saw the empty bottle and red wine stains on the keyboard.

Etymology: bender (a heavy drinking session) sender (one who emails others)

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COMMENTS:

I love the way your brain bends to come up with these! - emdeejay, 2008-12-03: 04:46:00

petaj a bendersendermend - is the apology that follows in an attempt to redress offenses - petaj, 2008-12-03: 05:09:00

Addressed to the bendersender's friends? - emdeejay, 2008-12-03: 05:27:00

harBINGEr - laughed and thought it a great create - silveryaspen, 2008-12-03: 17:05:00

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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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Tipsymailaise

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: tip-see-mail-ayz

Sentence: After a night of pounding down shots, singing rousing bouts of "What Shall We Do With a Drunken Mailer?", and sending out dozens of Jack Danmails, Bob awoke to an In Box full of hate mail, three computer viruses, and a heavy sense of tipsymailaise.

Etymology: tipsy, email, malaise

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COMMENTS:

Sounds like a fairly nasty dis e-ase - galwaywegian, 2008-02-08: 06:28:00

Terrific Puns ... Double Funs! Can I get tipsymalise from the fumes when I open JackDanmails? - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 11:25:00

nice one purple and now I've got that song n my head for the rest of the day - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-08: 12:46:00

picabomama I especially like the reference Jack Danmails in the sentence. - picabomama, 2008-02-09: 07:59:00

Great sentence; luv the word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-10: 16:52:00

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Doomerang

Created by: littorally

Pronunciation:

Sentence: The sense of pending disaster as whatever you did starts to turn and head back at you.

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

Good word...through in a pronounciation and etymology and you could get more points and be in line for the fabulous Verbotomy Trophy and Crown! - Nosila, 2008-12-03: 20:53:00

metrohumanx DOOMERANG is a great word- I wish you'd written more... - metrohumanx, 2008-12-04: 16:34:00

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Coronohnoa

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: kor - oh - no - no - ah

Sentence: Karen thought she heard Noah muttering his own name over and over in the office but when she got up and went in there, she had an interesting discovery. Noah was slumped over his computer, babbling drunkenly coronohnoa, coronohnoa over and over. When she saw the empty bottles of Corona and the emails he had sent to his boss, she doubted he would still have a job on Monday morning.

Etymology: Corona (brand of beer)+ oh no!

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Vinoemailia

Created by: greenwichgirl

Pronunciation:

Sentence: she suffers from vinoemailia several times a week.

Etymology:

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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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Clicksand

Created by: Magnetic

Pronunciation: klik - sand

Sentence: Knowing there was nothing he could do to fix the inevitable drunken harm he'd done at the keyboard the previous night, Bob accepted the impending reprocussions as he stewed in his own clicksand.

Etymology: click (computer or texting) + (quick)sand + click send (modified past tense of clicking the send button to send an email that now cannot be unsent)

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COMMENTS:

Excellent choice of words well blended into into a simple clear-meaning catchy verboticism. Reprocussions is a nifty one, too. Excellent creations! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 11:30:00

fantastic word - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-08: 12:47:00

absolutely great! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-10: 16:40:00

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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