Verboticisms

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: erasmus

Pronunciation: mess e age

Sentence: Karen was always receiving messyages from her friends, including her best friend who sounded just like her mum. So all in all it got very confusing.

Etymology: from messy and message.

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Created by: Sed8ed

Pronunciation: voy-sss-fay-el

Sentence: Once again, Wanda fell victim to several voicefail messages when most of the callers left no information.

Etymology: Voice+fail

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COMMENTS:

Oooh the best! - BMott, 2007-03-08: 23:56:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ənänəmesij

Sentence: Joan*s friend Mary is one of those people who lives in her own little world. She will start a conversation in her head 5 minutes before she starts to talk to you. It*s your job to catch up. It*s no wonder that Joan*s voicemail is full of anonymessages from her. By the time the beep sounds, Mary is half done with what she had to say. It*s like coming in late on a movie or TV show, hoping that you can figure out what you*ve missed.

Etymology: anonymous (a person not identified by name) + message (a verbal, written, or recorded communication sent to or left for a recipient who cannot be contacted directly)

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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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