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flamemail

flamemail noun: aggressively insulting email.

Noun

flamemail (countable and uncountable, plural flamemails)

  1. (Internet) Aggressively insulting email.
    • Such knee-jerk reactions will usually lead to a volume of unwanted, unnecessary and uncomfortable flamemail directed at you and occasionally every company e-mail address that the Internet rovers can find.1998, Public Relations Quarterly, volume 43, page 32
    • Flamemails may be used as a shield for the manager who lacks the skills of face-to-face communication or for someone who would rather avoid any type of direct confrontation with others.2009, Lynda Macdonald, Tolley's Managing Email & Internet Use, page 32

Forms of flamemail

pluralflamemails

Origin of flamemail

From flame + mail.

Questions about flamemail

What does flamemail mean?
Flamemail means aggressively insulting email.
What part of speech is flamemail?
Flamemail is a noun.
What is the plural of flamemail?
The plural of flamemail is flamemails.

Words near flamemail in the dictionary

  1. flamelets
  2. flamelight
  3. flamelike
  4. flamelord
  5. flamelords
  6. flamemail
  7. flamemails
  8. flamen
  9. flamenco
  10. flamenco guitar
  11. flamenco guitars

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