E is for Eh Oh!, Enyoj and Eet

EBRIATED [adjective]
Pronounction Ee bree ate id.
Meaning Sober.
Usage It's probably the best state to be in if you have a job interview.
Origin Zed, 2001. Opposite to "inebriated", you see.

E(E)LLO [exclamation]
Pronunciation E Loe.
Meaning Hello.
Usage "I say buazaap, and you say eello." It's a Beatles song, don'tcha know.
Origin What, the Beatles song? The Beatles, duh.

EES [verb]
Pronunciation Ease.
Meaning Is.
Usage "Eet ees duneid."
Origin Zed, 1999, but anyone who has ever used a cheesy European accent is bound to have said this at some point. Used now and again, for the sake of breaking up otherwise boring pieces of text.

EEP [exclamation]
Pronunciation Ypres. Ok, eep, for you uneducated types.
Meaning Eek!
Usage "Eep! My bedroom's attacking me!"
Origin I picked it up off Twi. Although it's widely known, it's not in the dictionary, so it can live here.

EET [pronoun]
Pronunciation Eat.
Meaning It.
Usage "Eet ees duneid."
Origin Zed, 1999, but like "ees", has been said by many people putting on cheesy European accents over the years. Nearly always used in conjunction with "ees".

EH OH! [exclamation]
Pronunciation Eh o.
Meaning Hello.
Usage "Eh Oh. My name is Doctor Greenthumb."
Origin The Teletubbies, 1997-ish.

EINSPLURDY (NEUBAUTEN) [noun]
Pronunciation Ine Splurd Ee Noy Bout Un.
Meaning Einsturzende Neubauten, a v. weird German industrial band, famed for using drills on stage.
Usage Feeling confused and disturbed.
Origin Zed, 2001, when she couldn't remember what the band's actual name was.

ELWOL [exclamation]
Pronunciation Ell. Woll.
Meaning Hello.
Usage "El Wol. How art thou?"
Origin Zed, 1998. Used now and again, but mostly by Zed's mother.

ENYOJ [verb]
Pronunciation En yoj.
Meaning Sounds like it should be a teenbopper domain, given the trend for naming them "acequia" and the like, but means enjoy.
Usage One tends not to enyoj oneself at bopper domains, no matter how creative their names.
Origin Zed, 1999.

EST [verb]
Pronunciation Est.
Meaning Is.
Usage "This an example sentence est."
Origin Latin. Apart from water troughs in their sitting rooms, Romans always have verbs at the end of their clauses.

ET [conjunction]
Pronounction Ey.
Meaning And.
Usage Best between two decidedly un-French nouns. "Simon Et Garfunkel are my starbois, but Ant Et Dec are runners up." (I don't know what the usage of that sentence is, mind.)
Origin French. The language came into vogue quite some time ago, but this misusage of it is only as recent as mid-2001.

EVILJOURNAL [noun]
Pronunciation Ee Vil Jur Nul.
Meaning Livejournal, when it's misbehaving. i.e. Livejournal. A synonym is Vilejournal.
Usage Keeping a journal and reading other people's, on the rare occasion when it works.
Origin Zed, 20 December 2001, after going online with the sole intention of visiting Livejournal, and it not working, no explanation given.

EYE POISON [noun]
Pronunciation I Poy Sun.
Meaning Something that looks really scanky - the opposite of eye candy. "Ear candy" and "Ear Poison" can be used similarly.
Usage Feeling lucky. "So I don't have a girlfriend or boyfriend, but at least I'm not desperate enough to go out with that eye poison."
Origin Zed, 13 November 2002.

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