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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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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'
Elecracize
Created by: guesser
Pronunciation: Elec - ra - size
Sentence: Although she felt elecracized, what she didn't know was that her emails were going to the wrong address!
Etymology: Electronic + Ostracize
Eprostricate
Created by: Paulefinch
Pronunciation: ee-pross-trick-ate
Sentence: Kelly kept eProstricating herself sending more and more emails to her exboyfriend.
Etymology: e+prostrate+subjugate
Emangle
Created by: ngajoe
Pronunciation: E-main-GULL
Sentence: Kelly's emanglement grew with every passing pop-up.
Etymology:
Ejectshun
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ējektshən
Sentence: Gloria couldn’t help but feel ejectshun when every e-mail she sent out bounced back. Turns out most of her friends are just as lazy as she is about clearing old e-mails.
Etymology: e (electronic) + rejection (refuse to agree) + shun (persistently avoid, ignore, or reject)
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.
Weblock
Created by: evthalia
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Invisible internet barriers prevented her inteded action(s) from materializing resulting in strong negative emotional overflow.
Etymology:
Messedgy
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: mess-eh-jee
Sentence: Sue was becoming quite messedgy - it was obvious that her e-mails to her latest boyfriend were being returned.
Etymology: message, edgy (anxious and irritable)
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COMMENTS:
hey purple - you must have had a wild memorial day weekend to be logging in so late - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-30: 11:59:00
Oh yeah, I've been off of work since Saturday! Unfortunately, I didn't have much fun, the yard work got out of hand, the garden needed planting, and I was up to my knees in mouse turds at the cabin. Think I'll suggest a definition for a really gross task... - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-30: 12:05:00
I'm sure it will all pay off - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-30: 12:40:00
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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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Emailancholy
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: EE MAYL en kah lee
Sentence: Rachel and Theo usually conducted their long-distance romance via e-mail. But Rachel hadn't heard from Theo in several days. All she received were bounce-back messages. Soon dread and emailancholy set in. Only days later did she learn that Theo had been on a business trip and his personal e-mail box had become full. In fact, as it happened, it was full of HER messages because he lovingly saved every single thing she sent him.
Etymology: e-mail + melancholy
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COMMENTS:
brilliant - galwaywegian, 2009-12-11: 10:07:00
awww...e-xecellent! - Nosila, 2009-12-11: 23:05:00
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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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