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DEFINITION: v. intr. To frustrate oneself by sending emails to someone who cannot receive them, especially when "over quota". n. An emotional response to bounced-back email.
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Vexinate
Created by: allie123
Pronunciation: veks - in - eyt
Sentence: Kelly became really vexinated when she realized that all her emails were being rejected
Etymology: VEXINATE - verb - from VEX (infuriate; exasperate) + ate (from communicate)
Quotancholy
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈkwoʊdənˌkɑly/
Sentence: The quotancholy overtook me mere hours after she left for work. Why hadn't she cleared out enough room in her inbox for the 29 funny videos that I forwarded her?
Etymology: From quota + melancholy
Enailed
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: e-nailed
Sentence:
Etymology: e-mail and nailed so electronicaly nailed is enailed
Correspondespondency
Created by: jerschneid
Pronunciation: COR-RE-SPON-DE-SPON-DEN-CY
Sentence: With every bounced email to my ex-girlfriend, my correspondespondency grows.
Etymology: a combination of "correspondence" and "despondency"
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COMMENTS:
excellent word - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-24: 14:20:00
Perfect! - lumina, 2008-07-24: 16:08:00
I like it. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-25: 17:43:00
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Cyberlone
Created by: souvikroy26
Pronunciation: sigh-ber-lone
Sentence: after break-up it seems cyberlone is wat i am left with
Etymology:
Daemonstrate
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: DEY - mohn - streyt
Sentence: Shirley was daemonstrated after she saw his inbox flooded with rejection e-mails. She died of suffocation when her tears dried up and turned to salt and was stuck in her nostrils because of the radiation her monitor was emitting. I guess daemonstration could really kill you.
Etymology: daemon [mailer daemon] + demonstrate [to show clearly] + frustrate [to have feelings of discouragement] + devastate
Enailed
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: ee/nayld
Sentence: arrgg - enailed again
Etymology: email + nailed
Jerkmail
Created by: hooterbug
Pronunciation: jûrk meyl
Sentence: Brian was ecstatic that his new Jerkmail filter was working correctly after dumping his E-Stalker girlfriend Susan
Etymology: Blend of Jerk + Junkmail
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COMMENTS:
ooh - that's a bit harsh - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-24: 14:18:00
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Redingusend
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: REE-DEEN-GUSS-SEND
Sentence: Fran sent so many e-mails to her department head that she forgot what they were about................... "I just can't REDINGUSEND any more!" she cried in frustration. Ultimately, she was reduced to posting a note on his office door: "READ YOUR ****ing E-MAIL ALREADY !" .........reDINGusend................
Etymology: RE+DINGUS+SEND.........................REpeatedly+DINGUS-one whose name is forgotten or unknown+SEND-a futile repetitive cyberage attempt to communicate.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by iwasatripwire. Thank you iwasatripwire! ~ James
iwasatripwire - 2007-05-31: 10:41:00
The drawing kind of looks like me, too!
http://www.etiquettehell.com/content/eh_main/gen/eh_index.shtml
I'm going to REDINGUSEND all you verbotomists!
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