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: 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: 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: 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: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: in/blog/nee/toe

Sentence: My most promising and interesting messages I ever receive usually come inblognito. I can never follow up, or act on them. So to get even and relieve my frustration, I randomly leave one of my friends an inblognito.

Etymology: incognito + blog

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COMMENTS:

Nice to see that you are spreading the joy... Unfortunately they don't let us leave anonymous messages here, so you'll know this message is from me. - wordmeister, 2007-03-07: 01:10:00

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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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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: 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: 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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