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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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Enailed
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: e-nailed
Sentence:
Etymology: e-mail and nailed so electronicaly nailed is enailed
Sendstricken
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: send - strik - en
Sentence: When Jeremiah did not receive any of the dozens of emails that Patty send him, she was simply sendstricken.
Etymology: send, stricken
Ebound
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: e/bound
Sentence: Jenny's e-mails to Joe were ebounded immediately with the message "Delivery Notification - Failure". She was sure it was deliberate and that she was on the ebound.
Etymology: EBOUND - verb - from E-MAIL + REBOUND
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COMMENTS:
Me likey. - lumina, 2008-07-24: 16:07:00
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Deliveryfailuretotalprostration
Created by: jadenguy
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "DFTP," he said to his flatmate, "I'll never get a message to her before she leaves for the airport. Arianna, WHY???"
Etymology: "Delivery Failure Notification" + "Total Prostration"
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COMMENTS:
wow, It's like,like reading a novel... what happens next??!1,LOL Great word and sentence! Grasshopper - grasshopper, 2007-05-30: 11:05:00
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Ebound
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ēbound
Sentence: She was on the ebound when she met Gig. All those other addresses had been so rude as to reject her advances but Gig not only had room for her, he welcomed her with an open portal.
Etymology: email (messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network) + rebound (still affected by the emotional distress caused by the ending of a romantic or sexual relationship)
Cyberlone
Created by: souvikroy26
Pronunciation: sigh-ber-lone
Sentence: after break-up it seems cyberlone is wat i am left with
Etymology:
Egitated
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: e/gi/ta/ted
Sentence: Sally was very egitated that her emails to Jordan were returned with the message "Delivery Notification - Failure" .
Etymology: e + agitated
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COMMENTS:
e-strordinary - Nosila, 2009-12-11: 23:07:00
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Bouncemote
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: bounce - e - mote
Sentence: I couldn't help myself, every rejected email caused me to bouncemote all over again.
Etymology: bounce (as in a bounced email) + emote (to express emotion, especially in an excessive or theatrical manner)... also has a nice sound play on 'email'
Spamwalling
Created by: scissorjammer
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: from Stonewalling
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
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Today's definition was suggested by iwasatripwire. Thank you iwasatripwire. ~ James