Verboticism: Fleemail
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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Emailstake
Created by: zxvasdf
Pronunciation: E mail stake
Sentence: He knew he needed some more coffee when he did his third mailstake.
Etymology: Email (send a message electronically) & mistake (to make an error)
Cybergasp
Created by: thebaron
Pronunciation: cy-ber-gasp
Sentence: Jeffery let out an enormous cybergasp when he hit 'all reply.' The naked pictures from the office party weren't supposed to go to his boss...
Etymology: cyber (internet land) gasp (intake of breath in horror)
Oopsiemail
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: oops-ee-mail
Sentence: Jim sent an oopsiemail to his supervvisor and coworkers while composing a message to a match on eHarmony. It wasn't bad enough that he was caught using the company computer for personal use, but now everyone would know that he was using a dating service to find a girlfriend.
Etymology: oops(ie): an exclamation to express acknowledgement of a screw-up or mistake + email
Errmail
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: er mayl
Sentence: When Sid sent out that message to all his friends, co-workers and relatives about his boss, it was obviously an errmail. The witty but ascerbic content of his comments was undermined by his spelling and grammar errors, to the point that the message was all but indecipherable. Sid learned that day that if you send out a chablis-mail, you need to follow it with an apology-mail!
Etymology: Err (mistake;incorrect) & Mail ( the system whereby messages are transmitted) & e-mail (electronic mail) & Wordplay on airmail
Emorse
Created by: zavijava
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Joe suffered from severe emorse when he realized that he had accidentally sent his angry rant about work to his boss, Don, and not his buddy, Dan.
Etymology: email+remorse
Emailsculated
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ee/male/skew/lay/ted
Sentence: Richard felt totally emailsculated when his email prematurely slipped out of his control and drifted silently into cyberspace.
Etymology: email + emasculated
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COMMENTS:
Ouch...that had to hurt. - Mustang, 2008-10-29: 06:47:00
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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.
Ecringe
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: EEEE-cringe.....(E-cringed, EEK-cringe)
Sentence: FastEddie recoiled in horror when he hastily hit the ENTER key instead of the BACKSPACE, and sent out a passionate love note to the Dean of Humanities instead of his beloved english professor. FastEddie could only E-CRINGE at his witless error and bang his head on the touchpad. He recouldn't e-cant,e-tract, e-verse or even e-pent now. His comments about his professor's crimson garter belt were surging through the information highway, and he could only e-coil at his own stupidity. FastEddie E-CRINGED yet again when he realized that a virus had forwarded it everyone in his address book, too. A POX upon Microsoft Outlook and the devils who spawned it!
Etymology: E(as in e-mail)+CRINGE=E-CRINGE.....cringe: to draw in or contract one's muscles involuntarily (as from cold, pain or humiliation),to shrink in fear ; Middle English crengen; akin to Old English cringan to yield, Middle High German krank weak.
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COMMENTS:
Yes, e-venge is a dish best served cold! - Nosila, 2008-10-29: 01:19:00
RATS! How could I miss that one? I'll have to e-view more carefully in the future.... - metrohumanx, 2008-10-29: 01:48:00
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Calamiteemail
Created by: bzav1
Pronunciation: kal am it ee mail
Sentence: My calamiteemail inadvertantly shared intimate details of my love life and all that entails with Gramma, my boss, Gladys from my bowling team, and Jim down in the warehouse.
Etymology: calamity + email
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COMMENTS:
brilliant! you have captured the essence of the definition - biffbig1, 2007-12-05: 00:33:00
Very clever! - Mustang, 2007-12-05: 07:50:00
Luv the sentence; good word too! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-05: 16:03:00
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