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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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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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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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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)
Twiterror
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: twit ur ur
Sentence: you could safely say that the twiterror was not so chirpy the next morning
Etymology: twitter, twit error
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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Thirstyjohnny
Created by: fatcat
Pronunciation: thir stee jon nee
Sentence: "Bill pulled a Thirstyjohnny last night," said Will.
Etymology: Thirsty (to drink heavily) Johnny (someone bored and has lots of time on their hands)
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: BLOGHENSIVE noun - from - BLOG (thoughts published on a Web page) + APPREHENSIVE (mentally upset over possible misfortune, danger, or stupidity)
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COMMENTS:
Very good. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-05: 03:06:00
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Hammermailed
Created by: Kevcom
Pronunciation: haam-er-may-ould
Sentence: Joe hammermailed his boss at exactly 11:59PM, just a minute before his big "project" was due. He had handed it on time, but the vulgarity of his "juiced" message was to obscure for the boss to handle.
Etymology: hammered (juiced, stoned, drunk) + email
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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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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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