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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.

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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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Bloghensive

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: blog/hen/sive

Sentence: With all his true thoughts about his boss and his friends sent at the height true spiritual drunkedness, he was bloghensive of the feedback about to come his way.

Etymology: blog + apprehensive

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COMMENTS:

Excellent! Bloghensive cuts right to the heart of that feeling! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 10:34:00

Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-10: 16:48:00

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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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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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Ethanolopression

Created by: XMbIPb

Pronunciation: ETHANOLOPRESSION

Sentence: As he machanically scrolled through about a dozen e-mails from giddy co-workers, the events of last evening began to take shape. Slowly, almost lazily, the dim suspicion of something being vaguely out of place began to yield to an outright dread as his gaze fell on the last message. That one was from Mr. Goldenshlock himself. The e-mail quoted Jake's own message to the entire company in which he described the etymology of the world "shlock" and advised Jake where he can pick up his last paycheck. Overcome by utter ethanolopression, Jake grabbed for the bottle with the last two drops of tequila and finished it off without thinking of the worm that stuck to his uvula.

Etymology: "Ethanol" - two carbon alcohol compound ubiquitous to all alcoholic beverages. "Pression" - root word from "depression. (Comment: the word was originally spelled with a hyphen: "e-thanolopression," which makes total sense given its original meaning. Through the ages, however, this was dropped by lazy spellers who felt it was beneath them to use the ring finger of their right hand to press an extra key [see: "ROFLMAO" "UR GR8" "BTW" and "BRB"]

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COMMENTS:

wow! - splendiction, 2010-04-28: 23:08:00

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Schizomailia

Misscj

Created by: Misscj

Pronunciation: Skiz-o-may-li-a

Sentence: "I must have had schizomailia, I emailed everyone at work a photo of my nuts. I don't even remember doing it. It wasn't me".

Etymology: Schizophrenic emailing

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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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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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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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Groggyttled

Created by: purpleman

Pronunciation: gra/gga/yat/led

Sentence: hey i got fired last night "yay" well y "u were specking to your boss weridly and he said" "YOUR FIRED" but i was groggyttled

Etymology: groggy+rattled

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COMMENTS:

specking and weridly are as fungreat creates as groggyttied! Your webchat sentences are very good specking! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 10:15:00

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Inebremorsemail

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: in-ebe-re-MORS-e-mayl

Sentence: When Darryl awoke after his on line ventures while totally blotto and saw the entries in his email 'sent messages' folder he had a massive attack of inebremorsemail.

Etymology: Blend of inebriated, remorse, and email

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COMMENTS:

Good word, the remorse the merrier! - Nosila, 2008-12-04: 00:47:00

metrohumanx Cunning combo, M! - metrohumanx, 2008-12-04: 01:30:00

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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