Verboticism: Annihipression
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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Eliminanxious
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: iliməang(k)shəs
Sentence: Every time Trish sits down at her computer she fears that she will accidentally delete an important document that she can hardly do any work. She is so eliminanxious that she has a attaché full of thumb drives and CDs with back-ups of her data and stacks documents she has printed ”just in case”.
Etymology: elimination (completely remove or get rid of something) + anxious (experiencing worry, unease, or nervousness)
Vaporrythmia
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: VAY-pore-ryth-MEE-uh
Sentence: Mad Shirley experienced a mild attack of VAPORRYTHMIA after she impulsively killed her investment banker and left his atomized carcass in the woods, unburied. "Oh well!" she thought..."A buzzard's gotta eat...same as a worm." Now THAT'S executive compensation.
Etymology: VAPORize+arRYTHMIA=VAPORRYTHMIA........VAPORIZE:to cause to become dissipated or irrevocably and eternally destroyed by or as if by converting into vapor,to cause to become dissipated or damaged,( F.U.B.A.R.);Middle English vapour, from Anglo-French vapor, from Latin, steam, vapor.....ARRYTHMIA:an alteration in rhythm of the heartbeat either in time or force;New Latin, from Greek, lack of rhythm, from arrhythmos unrhythmical, from a- + rhythmos rhythm.
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COMMENTS:
Awfully good...emphasis on the first word! - Nosila, 2008-12-30: 18:55:00
Awfully? - metrohumanx, 2008-12-31: 00:23:00
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Deletearious
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: del-i-teer-ee-uhs
Sentence: Abigail was absolutely deletearious over her inadvertent deletions of important emails and documtents.
Etymology: A play on the word 'deleterious'....harmful or destructive...adding 'tears'.
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COMMENTS:
Excellent! - galwaywegian, 2008-03-05: 06:21:00
Embedding one word in another is not easy. Exceptionally well done! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 13:10:00
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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.
Ohcrappage
Created by: kalisnowflake
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I was overwhelmed with ohcrappage when I closed my essay without saving.
Etymology:
Schnippelangst
Created by: CanadianAndyCapp
Pronunciation: Shh-nip-pull-ang-st
Sentence: The otherwise efficient receptionist's fetish for deleting "unwanted" e-mails, files and documents at the circumcision clinic, inevitably led to a mistake that erased the appointment schedule; causing her to mistakenly make a number of re-bookings for work that had already been done! Leaving her with a permenant case of shnippelangst
Etymology: Orig;German - Schnippeln (To delete) / Angst (Fear)
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COMMENTS:
Sure glad you put the etymologym, cause the nippel in the middle was really baffling! Uber originality! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 13:45:00
Nice word. Makes me think of all those lovely german words in English, such as kindegarten, Edelweiss, Weltgeist, and the many german placenames in Australia: Coburg, Brunswick, Heidelberg, (suburbs of Melbourne) Klemzig, Hermansburg, and many more in South Australia. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-06: 04:47:00
Nice word. Makes me think of all those lovely german words in English, such as kindegarten, Edelweiss, Weltgeist, and the many german placenames in Australia: Coburg, Brunswick, Heidelberg, (suburbs of Melbourne) Klemzig, Hermansburg, and many more in South Australia. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-06: 04:47:00
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Scintillattrition
Created by: twocent
Pronunciation: sin-till-AH-tri-shun
Sentence: Upon pressing the delete key, Pam's eyes glazed with an uneasy scintillattrition.
Etymology: scintilla: a speck, shred or particle attrition: a wearing down or regret for sin arising from fear of retribution
Shredgitate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: shred jit ate
Sentence: Nathalie had found her new boyfriend in a compromising position with his teenage lover. Of course, she lost no time in revving up her chain saw and dispensing of the guilty parties. She did shredgitate a bit because, in hindsight, on such short notice, where else would she find another date for the New Year's Eve bash she had booked and a babysitter for her 6 kids? It was inshredulous that she might spend such a special day in jail!!!
Etymology: Shred(a tiny or scarcely detectable amount; tear into shreds) & Agitate (a mental state of extreme emotional disturbance;the feeling of being agitated; not calm)
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COMMENTS:
Was surprised there was no reference to the most famous shredding incident of all time, Watergate. Luv shredigate! Do you ever wonder how much shredding is part of office politics, too? - silveryaspen, 2008-12-30: 16:40:00
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Destrue
Created by: calculon
Pronunciation: 'dest-ROO
Sentence: Phillipa destrued her gift receipt, upon noticing that her newly-purchased pom-pom tuque clashed with her leather jacket, her stiletto-heels, and her carefully-constructed self-image as a no-nonsense corporate attorney.
Etymology: From "Destroy" or "Destruction", it's sad but it's true, and "Rue" - to regret, or wish to undo.
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)
