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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.
Verboticisms
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Alcotrepemailidation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: al-kuh-trep-ee-meyl-i-dey-shuhn
Sentence: As he wakes from a weekend of partying Jerry sees his laptop and is filled with alcotrepemailidation. Did he really send those flaming emails that he was thinking about? He groggily looks in his sent folder only to find messages that are complete gibberish. Whew! Thank goodness for whiskey-reduced typing skills.
Etymology: alcohol (liquor) + email (a system for sending messages from one individual to another via telecommunications links between computers or terminals) + trepidation (tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbatio)
Spinagleyikes
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:
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
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
Quite right. Thank you. - metrohumanx, 2008-12-03: 23:40:00
Uniquely pleasing - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-05: 03:08:00
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Rogueemailephant
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: rowg/emial/efant
Sentence: The rogueemailephant finally sent one too many drunken emails which forced the company into bankruptcy. He hasn't been herd from since, although it has been speculated that he may try to join the Societe Generelephants.
Etymology: email + rogue elephant (person who avoids others)
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COMMENTS:
I assume he will packiederm his bags and go - galwaywegian, 2008-02-08: 07:38:00
You're very hugely creative, today! Evokes thoughts of rogue mails big as elephants! Can you e-male us ladies some to Njoy? (very red faced with longlived laughter) - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 10:45:00
Great puns ... through and through ... you are so good at what you do! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 10:46:00
And here's the sad truth about drunken elephants... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21432722/ - purpleartichokes, 2008-02-08: 11:44:00
truly shocking story but at least they went out happy - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-08: 12:52:00
Very cute, almost Babaric...did you pull that one out of your trunk? - Nosila, 2008-02-09: 03:51:00
Creative and interesting! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-10: 16:50:00
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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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Technointoximania
Created by: chedwardall
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My colleague is a pure technointoximaniac. He sends out abusive e mails in drink induced anger, then regrets it in the morning.
Etymology: techno=computers intoxi=alcohol mania=an agitated state
Vodkuneasymail
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: vädkənēzēmāl
Sentence: When Bill woke up Sunday he vaguely remembered spending much of his Saturday night catching up with his friends. He cringed at the thought that he had sent a scathing vodkuneasymail to his boss. You can imagine how relieved he was when he found that email still in the drafts folder. A quick delete and a couple Advil improved the morning greatly.
Etymology: vodka (an alcoholic spirit of Russian origin made by distillation of rye, wheat, or potatoes) + eneasy (causing or feeling anxiety; troubled or uncomfortable) + email (messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network)
Dejascrewed
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: day ja scr oooood
Sentence: The feeling of dejascrewed was so familiar, the message light on his phone throbbing in time with his headache, the dry mouth and the message from his boss in his inbox entitled "Re:hey Benny Brownnose"
Etymology: deja vu, screwed.
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COMMENTS:
Good prose and verboticism! Paints mind pictures and the feelings that go with it, very effectively! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 11:16:00
great words this week galway !! - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-08: 13:42:00
Almost been there... thank goodness I have full permissions on the boss's e-mail. - purpleartichokes, 2008-02-08: 20:38:00
Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-10: 16:44:00
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Alcommunicatastrophe
Created by: loquaciousloquat
Pronunciation: AL-com-you-ni-ca-TAS-tro-fee
Sentence: After a night-long binge of girl drinks and Zima in much-too-close proximity to his laptop, Bob feels the knot of alcommunicatastrophe in his weakened stomach as the reality of emailing everyone in his address book his deepest and most existentialist thoughts sets in.
Etymology: Alcohol - noun; a beverage known for causing euphoria, vomit, and remorse. Communication - noun; the expression of one's thoughts and opinions via words, gestures, or drunken emailing. Catastrophe - noun; a very, very bad thing that cannot be undone.
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COMMENTS:
Rooooolllls nicely off the tongue! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 18:29:00
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Drunkzmailz
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Drunks-mails
Sentence: Dimwhitter Derloke had a very bad habit of sending drunkzmailz speaking his inebriated mind...when he should have gone to sleep instead of typing drunk.
Etymology: A play on the words Drunks and Mails.
Egnominy
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
Comments:
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!
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James