Verboticism: Vexspunge

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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Frayforall
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: fray/for/all
Sentence: The purchase of a new office shredder turned into a frayforall which, in the aftermath, left people scrambling to reassemble scraps of documents that were accidentally included.
Etymology: fray (shred) + free for all (chaos)
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COMMENTS:
Very sly ... the vivid image of people down on their knees and the play on prayforall! From sentence to word ... ingeniously done! Outstanding! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 13:55:00
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Shreddedwhat
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: shred-ded-WAT
Sentence: Marvin, in his obsession to protect himself from identity fraud, commited a major shreddedWHAT when he realized his marriage liscense was in his pile of bank statements to be shredded. His wife gave the typical response to him when she exclaimed, "You shredded WHAT!?!"
Etymology: play on shredded wheat: cereal + exclamation WHAT!!
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COMMENTS:
Cute! - ErWenn, 2008-03-05: 09:35:00
very nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-05: 10:55:00
Serial shredders eliciting cries of shreddedwhat! Great pun = Great fun! This is a wonderful won! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 13:51:00
Great! - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-05: 19:35:00
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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)
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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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
Frayhem
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: fray/hem
Sentence: Frayhem ensued at the dry cleaners when the Armani suit got caught in the shredder.
Etymology: fray + mayhem + hem
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COMMENTS:
It's always nice to see something a little bit different! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 21:19:00
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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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Shredderdreader
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: shredərdredər
Sentence: Several years ago Millie was shredding her usual batch of junk mail when she spotted Ed McMahon’s smiling face in the teeth of the paper chomper. Too late! Convinced that she had lost the chance of a lifetime to be a millionaire, she has become a shredderdreader, refusing to throw away any mail. The accumulation now occupies every nook of her small apartment. She eats only cold meals because lighting the stove would surely start a fire. The microwave was crushed by a pile of paper several months ago. Things are suddenly looking up for Millie. She has the opportunity to make some serious coin being featured in the new reality show, Hoarders. Thanks, Ed.
Etymology: shredder (a machine or other device for shredding something, esp. documents) + dreader(someone who anticipates with great apprehension or fear)
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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Butterflinger
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌdɚˌflɪŋgɚ/
Sentence: I am not really a butterflinger; it's just that I first accidentally dropped an important file into the recycle bin, then clicked the "empty recycle bin" item while trying to open the bin to get it back, and finally panicked and clicked "yes" when my computer asked me if that was what I really wanted to do. It's really Microsoft's fault for making it so easy to permanently delete documents.
Etymology: from butter(fing)er + fling
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COMMENTS:
I tried to use one of those fancy pieces of software to recover the data from the hard drive, but I accidentally wrote zeros to every bit on the disk. Then I spilled corrosive acid and lighter fluid on it, set it on fire while trying to ascertain the damage with a candle, and mistakenly hit it with a sledgehammer 40 times. - ErWenn, 2008-03-05: 09:32:00
I actually did destroy a hard drive with a sledgehammer once, but that was on purpose. - ErWenn, 2008-03-05: 09:33:00
another migraine moment - I do like your word today - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-05: 10:44:00
Luv butterflingers ... maybe because that's what mine are! It's a great one letter change to blend two words into a really funny, but very apt, exceptional verboticism! Outstanding! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 13:27:00
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