Verboticisms

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: allwise

Pronunciation: våid-mE-mO

Sentence: As the message unfolded, Jane figured it was a voidmemo and promptly deleted it.

Etymology: void - null - nothing memo - memorandum - message with information

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COMMENTS:

I'm surprised no one has submitted voi(ce)dmail yet. It would make a nice accompaniment to this word. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-07: 11:39:00

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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: BMott

Pronunciation: fan-tum-ess-uj

Sentence: The voice mail message was some woman with a squeaky voice who urged me to call her back ASAP, as if I could. Another phantomessage!

Etymology: Phanto: From phantom. -- Message: what we call our voice mails.

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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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Created by: deannewby

Pronunciation: No-Fo-Voy

Sentence: I got another one of those stupid Nofovoi messages!

Etymology: A combination of: 'No' for 'lack of', 'fo' the second half of the word info, 'voi' part of the word voice.

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Created by: josje

Pronunciation: braincrusher

Sentence: this message is a braincrusher

Etymology: getting all mixed up in thinking who you might have called

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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: Windyo

Pronunciation:

Sentence: another voinymess... oh really.

Etymology: voice + privative particule + message

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Created by: ekath

Pronunciation: beep-beep-ditch

Sentence: Thanks to caller-ID the number of beepbeepditches has drastically decreased over the last decade

Etymology: from the game ding-dong-ditch

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