Verboticisms

Created by: toralora

Pronunciation: gibb/a/ch

Sentence: I didn't call you back because you left a gibbage on my voice mail. How could I have known it was you?

Etymology: Gibberish (=nonsense) + message

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Created by: tonya87

Pronunciation: Who-is-me

Sentence: Why does every one leave a whuismi!

Etymology:

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: gess-ij

Sentence: The guessage on her machine said nothing more than "Meet me at Sam's Place at 6." Because she was in contact with over two dozen on-line daters, Alice realized she was driving to a semi-blind date.

Etymology: guess, message

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COMMENTS:

Simple but effective! - Discoveria, 2007-03-07: 09:15:00

Better than mine, which was 'lessage.' - emd2k3, 2007-03-07: 14:57:00

Thanks, it's the first time I came up with a decent word in about 4.5 seconds. It takes me forever to come up with bad ones. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-07: 18:02:00

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: cawl/dis/mae

Sentence: An empty voicemail is a calldismay

Etymology: call display + dismay

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COMMENTS:

funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-07: 13:23:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: mum/blast

Sentence: .... another mumblast - it must be from the psychic hotline again

Etymology: mum (silent)+ bombast (talk) + blast (scream)

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˌɛnɪgˈmɛsədʒ/

Sentence: I hate enigmessages.

Etymology: From enigma + message.

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Created by: catgrin

Pronunciation: uh-non-uh-mis-iv

Sentence: "Blocked" anonymissives on her cell were giving Tammy a headache.

Etymology: anony + missive 1601, from Gk. anonymos "without a name," from an- "without" + onyma ("m" is retained by use of "missive"), Æolic dialectal form of onoma "name" + 1444, from M.L. missivus "for sending, sent," esp. in littera missiva "letters sent," fro

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kawl ler hy dee

Sentence: Ginger's new phone had all the bells and whistles and yet she still received mysterious calls from unknown senders. The person trying to reach her obviously had a callerhidee feature on their phone. After fretting for two weeks that she was being stalked by some masher, she went to the phone company. Mystery solved...it turned out to be a five year old in Buenos Aires who had just discovered his mom's phone and among other things, loved the beepy noises that the re-dial button made.

Etymology: Play on Caller ID (a small display that will show you the telephone number of the party calling you) & Hide (make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing)

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: speek-teez

Sentence: Carole threw her phone at the wall in disgust when she realised that the deep, sexy voice on the message had not left a name or contact number. "What a speaktease" she exclaimed.

Etymology: speak (as one does when leaving a voicemail message) + tease (provoke) + p****tease (one who promises but does not deliver satisfaction)

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Created by: iwasatripwire

Pronunciation: crip-tih-call

Sentence:

Etymology: cryptic + call

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