Verboticism: Suicybe
DEFINITION: n., A feeling of regret and helplessness, which occurs once you realize that you have just sent out an erroneous email (i.e. one full of stupid mistakes). v., To send out an email and wish you hadn't.
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Ruesent
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: rue + sent
Sentence: I deeply, deeply ruesent having forwarded the profanity-laced rant to every single person in my company, including the CEO.
Etymology: It's sort of like resent, only with the idea of rueing what one has sent.
Sliptidism
Created by: klsbsw1
Pronunciation: slip-tide-ism
Sentence: While reaching for his coffee Max was surprised by his boss entering his cube and accidentally bumped the send key forwarding his email to the entire office.
Etymology: n
Demial
Created by: chaiandallthatjazz
Pronunciation: sounds like denial
Sentence: He's suffering from demial.
Etymology: email-denial twisted up...demial
Catastrophemail
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kətastrəfēmāl
Sentence: ”Why do they put the send button next to the delete button?” ”Why do they put the send button next to the delete button?” Jerry’s game of typing nastygrams to many of his friends, never intending to send them, blew up in his face last night. What damage control can there be for a catastrophemail sent to his boss calling her an ignorant, insipid cow? Somebody hacked his account? It was a joke? He was drugged? Today should be an interesting day at work.
Etymology: catastrophe (an event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering; a disaster) + email (messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network)
Horrespondence
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: hawr-uh-SPON-duhns
Sentence: Horrespondence struck Bob like a lightning bolt a nano-second after he realized that his opinion of his boss, " I couldn't warm to him even if we were cremated together," meant only for Roxie's eyes to see, had -inadvertently - been emailed by him to his boss!
Etymology: Blend of HORROR: used as an expression of dismay, embarrasment, fear, panic & disappointment, & DESPONDENCE: labouring under mental depression & CORRESPONDENCE
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COMMENTS:
on a roll! - galwaywegian, 2007-12-05: 07:51:00
Bullseye! "Bob's" simile is hilarious too. - Tigger, 2007-12-05: 16:54:00
Nice one Ozzie! - purpleartichokes, 2007-12-05: 18:10:00
I like it. Very clever. - Nuwanda, 2008-10-29: 10:58:00
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Errmail
Created by: psi4got
Pronunciation: rrrrrr mail
Sentence: As Bob closed the lid of his laptop he saw the sent confirmation flash on the screen. His face drained of blood and the errmail of his ways hit him fully in the chest. He hadn't noticed when his address book suggested the wrong name. His flaming email about his manager, instead of going to his friend Jim Goodguy, had gone to his boss James 'Jim' Hangnail. Before he took two steps out of his office his phone rang. To errmail is human but to undo would be divine.
Etymology: err: error. Also a sound in this case - "rrrrrr" mail - Referring, in this case, to the act of emailing.
Suicybe
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: suu ee sybe
Sentence: he committed career suicybe not by the content of his diatribe, but by the dreaded "reply to all" button.
Etymology: suicide cybe as in cyber
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COMMENTS:
i like this one! - libertybelle, 2007-12-05: 14:30:00
Excellent! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-05: 16:16:00
Good one Galway! - purpleartichokes, 2007-12-05: 18:04:00
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Ohbuggerpants
Created by: wordslikevenom
Pronunciation: O-bugger-pantz
Sentence: "Ohbuggerpants! Who's f*cking wonderful great clever idea was it to put ENTER and DEL at such close proximity to each other"
Etymology: Oh!: an expression of surprise or feeling sorry about a mistake or slight accident Bugger!: an expression of surprise or feeling sorry about a mistake or slight accident Pants: an expression of surprise or feeling sorry about a mistake or slight accident