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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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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

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Frustremailession

Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: fruh stree male ess shun

Sentence: After suffering frustremailession, Sheila finally gave up emailing Dave Letterman.

Etymology: Frustration+email sion makes it a noun.

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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'

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Bounceeblues

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: bou n see blooze

Sentence: The bounceeblues really hurt, especially as this was her first experience of being the bouncee. That's that she cried, I'm finished with e-males forever.

Etymology: bounce blues bouncee as in victim.

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COMMENTS:

maybe she hit the bounceebooze after her rejection and became a bounceebluesboozehound - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-30: 10:50:00

if she fell in an inebriation state, and got a bouncebluesboozebruise? - jadenguy, 2007-05-30: 12:45:00

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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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Enailed

Created by: josje

Pronunciation: e-nailed

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Etymology: e-mail and nailed so electronicaly nailed is enailed

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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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Weblock

Created by: evthalia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Invisible internet barriers prevented her inteded action(s) from materializing resulting in strong negative emotional overflow.

Etymology:

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Ejectshun

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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)

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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

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-30: 00:01:00
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!

metrohumanx metrohumanx - 2008-07-24: 00:52:00
http://www.etiquettehell.com/content/eh_main/gen/eh_index.shtml

metrohumanx metrohumanx - 2008-07-24: 17:56:00
I'm going to REDINGUSEND all you verbotomists!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-07-28: 00:02:00
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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-12-11: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by iwasatripwire. Thank you iwasatripwire. ~ James