Verboticisms

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)

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Created by: metro1

Pronunciation: hang-male

Sentence: Roger was so dedicated to his new job that he decided to work all night long. As it got later, he gave himself a beer as a motivational reward. As it got later and later, he found he needed more and more rewards to keep going... But he persisted and documented his progress with a series of emails to all his colleagues. When he regained conscious, he discovered that he had created potentially career-ending hangmail.

Etymology: hangover + hangnail + email

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COMMENTS:

Well-crafted ... slid right into the ending with a nifty verboticism! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-08: 18:22:00

HA! - purpleartichokes, 2008-02-08: 20:40:00

Thanks Silvery and Purple! - metro1, 2008-02-10: 14:49:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: fayse down book

Sentence: When Leonard came home from work and got soused every night, he often felt a strong urge to phone, email, text or Facebook everyone he had ever known and say rambunctious things,which he did not remember in the morning. One morning, after such an orgy.org he had achieved facedownbook, when his boss unfriended him by disabling him;his girl dumped him by text and he felt like a real A-ol...his textoserone was at an all-time low.

Etymology: Facebook (popular social media site on computer) & Face down (fallen on the floor;drunk;out of it)

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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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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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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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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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Created by: gregoriantumor

Pronunciation: al-ko-spam-i-tis

Sentence: The Nigerian spammer accuses his chronic spamming to alcospamitis.

Etymology: English; adj/adverb, 14th century

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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

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

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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

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