Verboticism: Oopsiemail
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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Clicksick
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: click - sick
Sentence: A few seconds after Ellen sent the email that she thought she had forwarded to her friend, she felt clicksick. Instead of forwarding her boss's email with her barbed comments and description of his many shortcomings, she had "replied" to her boss instead.
Etymology: A combination of the word "click" and "sick" with just a dose of the word "heartsick".
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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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
Awcrappity
Created by: ReputedTart
Pronunciation: aw-krap-uh-tee
Sentence: One keystroke to the wrong person was all it took for my entire body to be paralized by awcrappity and my darkest secret to be known to the entire world.
Etymology: Aw crap!
Emailsculated
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ee/mas/cu/lay/ted
Sentence: Dick felt totally emailsculated when his email slipped out of his control and drifted silently into cyberspace.
Etymology: email + emasculated
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COMMENTS:
Great word!! - libertybelle, 2007-12-05: 14:31:00
Good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-05: 16:16:00
Hehe, you said Dick! - purpleartichokes, 2007-12-05: 18:07:00
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Emailancholy
Created by: Ransom
Pronunciation: ee-MAYL-an-kahl-ee
Sentence: Jocelyn was filled with emailancholy after she accidentally sent a message riddled with comma splices.
Etymology: email + melancholy
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COMMENTS:
Awesome! - Tesher, 2007-12-05: 09:22:00
I like it! - Mustang, 2007-12-05: 17:12:00
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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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Undobeasness
Created by: frankierio
Pronunciation: un-do bee-s-ness
Sentence: Jake suddenly reliezed that the sexy letter he just sent was also emailed to his boss, which left him with a feeling of undobeasness.
Etymology:
Drepresssend
Created by: jack189
Pronunciation: Depress-send
Sentence: As John sat typing bad things about people to vent his feelings his dog bit his leg causing his hand to press hard on the keyboard hitting "send to all" he was immediatley hit with a feeling of depresssend, for sending out such mean things
Etymology: Depress(sad)+ send(to disperse out, such as an email)
