Verboticism: Trashedy
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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Docuotomy
Created by: jaehawk
Pronunciation: doc-u-ot-o-me
Sentence: When Donna mistakenly shredded Keith's term paper, she committed an accidental docuotomy.
Etymology: Docu- n(1950): report paper. otomy v[L,fr.Gk to remove]
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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Remorsenode
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ree mors node
Sentence: Lucy had not worked for the New Jersey Waste Management Company for very long. She had been hired to make the books read more creatively for the tax man. She had been warned to be careful or else... Her one teeny tiny error had been in accidentally deleting all the year's pay records for the 200 goombas who were 'employed' by the company. Lucy's feeling of remorsenode had grown over the day and intensified when her boss, Big Tony, had called a meeting of the family to decide who was gonna delete Lucy, permanently. Who knew being an accountant could be so dangerous???
Etymology: Remorse - a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) & Node-(computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network & Morse Code -telegraph code in dots & dashes...this word is for rhyming effect
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COMMENTS:
The dirty business, the mistake, the unvelied threat ... another good drama! Original etymology and word! Grandly done! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 14:03:00
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Lostalgia
Created by: Autolupus
Pronunciation: los-tal' ji-ə
Sentence: She realised what she'd done, she'd deleted his number! Now all that was left was an empty pang of lostalgia.
Etymology: [O.E.&Gr. losian, to be a loss & algos, pain.]
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COMMENTS:
Portraying this aspect is very nice originality! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 13:21:00
excellent start - great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-05: 15:51:00
Yep, I love it! Reminds me of shredding the 10-year-old divorce papers. - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-05: 19:34:00
Brilliant... - kashman, 2008-03-09: 00:42:00
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Lacrimolish
Created by: kashman
Pronunciation: lacr-e-molish
Sentence: After finding that his girlfriend is cheating on him, Adam shredded all her letters and pictures, but suffered from lacrimolish pangs later on.
Etymology: Lacrimal (relating to tears of sorrow) + Demolish (raze; strip to pieces)
Oopsolysisophobia
Created by: Ritalinda
Pronunciation: oop'-so-ly-sis'-o-pho'-bia
Sentence: The paper, all the paper, endless paper. They lawyers, all the lawyers, endless lawyers. The shredder--hours and hours at the shredder. So confusing, and out of Valium. Indeed, this was the prescription for an inevitable and intractable oopsolysisophobia.
Etymology: oops--comment associated with an accidental act. lysis--Greek term for separation or tearing. Phobia--an anxiety.
Fraglamentation
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: frag/lamen/tay/shun
Sentence: Sally was filled with fraglamentation when her designer scarf got caught up with the documents she was attempting to shred.
Etymology: fragmentation + lament
Shreddexia
Created by: Babbalabba
Pronunciation: sh-redd-x-eea
Sentence: At Little Hills Rehabilitation center, Linsday was overcoming a severe case of shreddexia, imiges of bloody chainsaws still populating her mind as she sobbed to her psychologist, "Why, why...I...was just cutting the hedges and I...I-", draped in misery.
Etymology: (None)
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)
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)
