Verboticism: Oblitabummer
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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Shregret
Created by: leemarquis
Pronunciation: shreg - ret
Sentence: I shregretted my bank statement
Etymology: To shred and regret
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COMMENTS:
Simple and right to the point! Nice one! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 14:04:00
Very good! - Mustang, 2008-03-05: 17:55:00
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Unron
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: unn-rohn
Sentence: Rod, the Burger Time manager on-duty collected the driver's license, social security card, application, and insurance forms from his new employee, Tara, and headed for the grimy copy machine in the back office. A recently mopped floor yielded to his black Hush Puppies and Rod met floor with no pleasantries. The documents drifted atop the griddle, where they immediately vaporized as Rod watched from the floor, pale with unron shock.
Etymology: The opposite of Enron, a company which intentionally shredded scads of important documents in an attempt to avoid legal trouble.
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COMMENTS:
Terrific analogy! Clever! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 13:29:00
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Deletearious
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: del-eh-TEER-eyuss
Sentence: Shannon was deletearious when she realized she had shredded some old love letters by mistake, she cried for hours and was absolutely beside herself.
Etymology: Blend of 'delete' (to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing) and 'tear' (fluid appearing in or flowing from the eye as the result of emotion, esp. grief)....a play on the word 'deleterious' (Having a harmful effect; injurious)
Inshredulous
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: inn sh reg yew lus
Sentence: she was totally inshredulous over what she had done. She had told werself over and over again "Left hand, letters from asshole ex-boyfriend. Right hand, winning lotto ticket". Over and over again....
Etymology: incredulous, shred.
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COMMENTS:
A lot of good words based on "shred" today. - ErWenn, 2008-03-05: 09:35:00
very funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-05: 10:52:00
Incredibly good! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 13:42:00
Good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-06: 04:35:00
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Confretti
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kohn frett eeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Sentence: her confretti gave way to shreddread
Etymology: confetti, fret
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COMMENTS:
Exceptional - silveryaspen, 2008-12-30: 16:31:00
Handy for weddings... - Nosila, 2008-12-30: 18:52:00
Excellent. The good news is that you can use the confretti for parades and parties. - Mustang, 2008-12-30: 23:34:00
Sounds like an Italian conspiracy. Great word. - metrohumanx, 2008-12-31: 01:08:00
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2008-12-31: 09:40:00
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Trashedy
Created by: marcogp6
Pronunciation: Noun
Sentence: The barrage of facebook photos of his ex with her new boyfriend, reminded the man of his worst trashedy.
Etymology:
Trashpanic
Created by: freiflug
Pronunciation: /træʃˈpanɪk/
Sentence: "Gerard, why the hasty face? - Go away! I'm in a serious trashpanic." "Definitely. I definitely would have gone to that concert, but I trashpanicked the tickets while I was not paying attention - hard cheese took over me."
Etymology: trash: a container into which things are discarded; panic: overpowering fright
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.
Shredderfretter
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: shredərfretər
Sentence: It happened to him once. Fred shredded an important document. From that point forward Fred was a shredderfretter. He was afraid to shred anything for the fear that it could happen again. His office was so full of paper that his coworkers didn't know if he was in there or not.
Etymology: shredder (a machine or other device for shredding something, esp. documents) + fretter (someone who is constantly or visibly worried or anxious)
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COMMENTS:
Another nice one that rolls off the tongue and plops on the floor. :) - wayoffcenter, 2008-12-30: 04:33:00
Good one! - Mustang, 2008-12-30: 23:35:00
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Doculament
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /dok-yu-la-MENT/
Sentence: Peter was about to move out of the apartment he'd lived in for years, and he was what one might call a 'packrat' — he had kept all of his old receipts, paid bills and bank statement in his desk drawer. He impulsively decided to make a fresh start and change his packrat ways by shredding everything in the drawer. But after doing so, he remembered that he had kept his birth certificate, car title and tax records in that same drawer, and soon doculamented his rash shredding spree.
Etymology: Document - any written item, or computer data file (from Latin, documentum "example, proof") + Lament - to feel sorrow or mourn over (from Latin, lāmentārī "regret")
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COMMENTS:
Did he deliver a filogy over the shredded remains? What a grave situation. - petaj, 2008-03-05: 05:16:00
Meaningful and with feeling. Excellent verboticism! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 13:36:00
Nice! - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-05: 19:31:00
Nice word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-06: 04:34:00
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