Verboticism: Dotcompulsive
DEFINITION: n. A psychological dependency on electronic messaging which often leads to compulsive emailing, even among people who are sitting inches apart. v. To email, twitter, or text compulsively.
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Botitis
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: bot/i/tis
Sentence: BOTitis, (better known as a digital disconnect between the brain and the fingers), may be responsible for her clueless condition; on the other hand, he had to admit that maybe he wasn't al2gethR there either.
Etymology: BOT: text messaging acronym meaning "Back On Track" + itis (indicating a disorder or disease)
Enemoured
Created by: w5lf9s
Pronunciation: en.ee.muhrd
Sentence: He hasn't left his desk for days - probably has a new girl e-friend. He seems completely enemoured.
Etymology: enamored + e-anything
Fanatitexting
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: fənatitekstng
Sentence: William’s mother is glad she took the protection plan when she bought his phone. He has worn out numerous models fanatitexting his friends for hours at a time. He usually wears the printed letters off of the keypad shortly before the overheated electronics literally blow up.
Etymology: fanatic (a person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal) + texting (an electronic communication sent and received by cellular phone)
Obsessamessage
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Did you get my message? Stop obsessamessage-ing it.
Etymology: obsessive messageing
Texican
Created by: tommyboy
Pronunciation: teks-eh-ken
Sentence: her over-dependency on facebook practically grants her texican citizenship.
Etymology: hmm
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Asciimania
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: ass-kee-may-nee-ya
Sentence: "Doug just emailed his dog explaining that he couldn't get the usual chow. I think he has asciimania."
Etymology: ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), the text encoding system used in computers and communication; + mania
Needee
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: need/ee
Sentence: The pair was so needee that they both continued to email after several bouts of carpal tunnel surgery
Etymology: Need (addiction) + e (email)
Egomail
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: eego-male
Sentence: Please! Don't feed the egomails! Use your voice!
Etymology: email+ego (which you are feeding by doing this...)
Emailady
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: E-mail ad ee
Sentence: You could watch Carol and Emma from accross the office constantly in a situation of Emailady, unable to even say a word but still talking through their email.
Etymology: from email and malady
Instantity
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: in-stan-i-tee
Sentence: When I was first diagnosed with instantity, I couldn't wait to email the guy next to me all about it.
Etymology: instant + insanity
