Verboticisms

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: GOST-mayl

Sentence: His message was a ghostmail as it didn't include any identifying information and could not be returned.

Etymology: ghost + mail

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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: from who nik kay shun

Sentence: Gisele hated the fact that all her 14 year old girlfriends left her messages, but she could not figure out who had sent them. She called this a fromwhonication and her friends could never figure out why she never called them back.

Etymology: From who? & Communication (the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information)

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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: Mustang

Pronunciation: stelth-EXT-ing

Sentence: Veronica got great joy and even prided herself on her stealthexting technique, wherein she could always manage to leave messages she knew would be unwelcome but that also left no indentifying trail.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'stealth' and 'texting'

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: best-fren-on-uh-muhs

Sentence: As a bill collector Tom is famous for getting people to call him back by leaving bestfrienonymous voicemail messages. "Hey, (insert name here) haven't talked to you for quite some time. Give me a call back and we can catch up." Most clients (victims) are so stunned at being fooled that they pay up their accounts without much resistance.

Etymology: best friend + anonymous (of unknown name)

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˌɛnɪgˈmɛsədʒ/

Sentence: I hate enigmessages.

Etymology: From enigma + message.

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Created by: EffingCharms

Pronunciation: name-less-edge

Sentence: GR! If I find out who keeps leaving me these annoying namelessage's, I swear I'll... leave them one back!!!!

Etymology: nameless- without a name; without an identifyable characteristic -age the end of message, a letter or note left for someone when they're unattainable

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: owt a kon text

Sentence: yet another outacontext convinced her that she was giving her number out to freely, so she resolved not to date anyone in future who couldn't tie their own shoelaces

Etymology: out of context, text

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Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: An-non-nee-male

Sentence: Jill got so many anonymails that she eventually learnt to identify her friends by the length of their pausing between words.

Etymology: Anonymous + mail

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