Vote for the best verboticism.
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.
Verboticisms
Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...
You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.
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.
----------------------------
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
----------------------------
Enailed
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: e-nailed
Sentence:
Etymology: e-mail and nailed so electronicaly nailed is enailed
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
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)
Missage
Created by: cascadingstylesheet
Pronunciation: mis-sage
Sentence: Despite receiving twenty bounced emails from Jason, Kylie still felt compelled to repeatedly missage him.
Etymology: From miss (to fail to hit) and message (a communication containing some information).
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
nice etymology - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-24: 14:19:00
----------------------------
Thwartmail
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: thwot-mail
Sentence: Sandra was thwartmailed when all 400 recipients' invitations bounced back, sending her own inbox over quota.
Etymology: hotmail (web email service) + thwart (to frustrate)
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
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
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
brilliant - galwaywegian, 2009-12-11: 10:07:00
awww...e-xecellent! - Nosila, 2009-12-11: 23:05:00
----------------------------
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)
Sendergasted
Created by: grasshopper
Pronunciation: sin/der/gas/ted
Sentence: I have been flabbergasted but I never thought i would be sindergasted
Etymology: sinder/to send, flabbergasted/dumbfounded or taken aback by something
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!
Hey Verbotomists! Verbotomy is launching in "b", Baltimore's free daily newspaper. They are publishing the winning Verbotomy word of the day in the paper.
To coordinate our site with the paper, we are adding an extra day of voting, just to make sure the best word wins.
So we are now playing on a 3-day cycle: First day for word creation; second day for voting; and on the third we publish the winner on the site and in the paper.
Check out our Verbotomy Video here: http://www.verbotomy.com/verbotomize.php
Be creative! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by iwasatripwire. Thank you iwasatripwire. ~ James