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DEFINITION: v. To fret and worry after the accidental trashing of an important document, file or friend. n. The state of anxiety caused by an accidental deletion.
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Gonerhoea
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: exactly the same as the STD
Sentence: Don't give me those piss-weak excuses. Since you were the one who shredded the will yesterday, it's not fair that I'm the one suffering gonerhoea since Granny died this morning. Not only have i lost my inheritance I can feel a dodgy tummy coming on.
Etymology: gone (disappeared, erased, not recoverable) + diarrhoea (gastric symptom which may accompany panic attacks) + gonorrhoea (a venereal disease causing inflammation of the urethra)
Oblitabummer
Created by: gelsomina17
Pronunciation: oh-bli-tuh-bummer
Sentence: Marion had a bad case of oblitabummer after she deleted the guest list for her 21st birthday party.
Etymology: obliterate + bummer
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COMMENTS:
Viva La Strada! - metrohumanx, 2008-12-31: 01:02:00
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Mishabolish
Created by: brasstax82
Pronunciation: miss-haa-ball-ish
Sentence: Realizing too late that it WAS in fact her bra in the back seat of her BF's car, jenny quickly regretted her little mishabolish.
Etymology: Mishap: An unfortunate accident Abolish: To put an end to. Slang often used in many prominent law firms, political offices, and Energy company board meetings.
Trashedy
Created by: marcogp6
Pronunciation: Noun
Sentence: The barrage of facebook photos of his ex with her new boyfriend, reminded the man of his worst trashedy.
Etymology:
Unron
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: unn-rohn
Sentence: Rod, the Burger Time manager on-duty collected the driver's license, social security card, application, and insurance forms from his new employee, Tara, and headed for the grimy copy machine in the back office. A recently mopped floor yielded to his black Hush Puppies and Rod met floor with no pleasantries. The documents drifted atop the griddle, where they immediately vaporized as Rod watched from the floor, pale with unron shock.
Etymology: The opposite of Enron, a company which intentionally shredded scads of important documents in an attempt to avoid legal trouble.
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COMMENTS:
Terrific analogy! Clever! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 13:29:00
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Axits
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: Axe its
Sentence: Shwreck opened the shredder to show me the scads of little axe blades, swinging up and down the documents, turning them into axits. Too late, I realized that monster Shwreck, with his weapon the shredder, had axited the file the boss wanted immediately. The Boss, Mr Haxle, was not amused when I dumped the axits in his in-box. My axiety was justified. I got the ax!
Etymology: AXES to BITS creates AXITS. Documents AXITED, (verb play on exited, permanently), create AXIETY, that anxiety caused when needed documents no longer exist, except as axits.
Enshredful
Created by: leechdude
Pronunciation: en-shred-ful
Sentence: Joanna's enshredful moment only brought harsh memories of her overdue Cola presentation.
Etymology: shred, full, en(prefix)
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COMMENTS:
Interesting etymology! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 13:16:00
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Inadvertentectomyangst
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: in ad vert ent ekt omee angst
Sentence: Although it bothered her a lot, Hilary Hack had no choice but to do it. Her Hockey Star cheating boyfriend, Randy Gote had been caught with his pants down, again. She had warned him of the consequences the last time, but apparently he did not take her seriously. When she had caught him, she revved up the old Black & Decker in a fit of jealous rage and told him afterwords that the only Hockey Team he could try out for now was the Castor Raiders. Still, she was overcome with a feeling of inadvertentectomyangst...because his days of body-checking and stick-handling were over.
Etymology: Inadvertent (accidental;by chance) & -ectomy (suffix for surgical removal/incision of something to eliminate it) & Angst (an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety)
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COMMENTS:
....aaaaggghhhhh..... I wanted to use "ectomy"! :-) - XMbIPb, 2010-05-14: 10:33:00
after listening to the word for 3 minutes straight, it surely does sound like "in every tent tom yanks". sublime messages you are delivering? - freiflug, 2010-05-14: 13:18:00
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Frayhem
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: fray/hem
Sentence: Frayhem ensued at the dry cleaners when the Armani suit got caught in the shredder.
Etymology: fray + mayhem + hem
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COMMENTS:
It's always nice to see something a little bit different! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 21:19:00
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Shredpidation
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: shred-pih-day-shun
Sentence: Julie felt a nanosecond of shredpidation before pulverizing her ex-boyfriend's lottery check. So sad he didn't leave a forwarding address.
Etymology: shred, trepidation
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COMMENTS:
great combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-05: 10:56:00
Ah, we've all felt this one! Well done! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 13:40:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by an anonymous donor. Thank you! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James