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DEFINITION: v. To feel stressed and anxious and when your mobile phone runs out of battery power, drops its network connection, or in the worst case, gets misplaced and lost. n. A panic attack caused by an interruption in your mobile phone service.
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Excommunicapitation
Created by: arrrteest
Pronunciation: ex-com-yoon-ih-cap-ih-tay-shun
Sentence: Marian was generally a laid back person that showed little worry or frustration with life's daily problems. However all bets were off if she was deprived of her cell phone's signal strength. She regularly calmed any anxiety by calling or texting her friends and family and was perfectly content -- as long as there was enough signal strength for the phone. This calmness was not the case when she had to enter a new building where she had not cased out before and didn't know where any dead spots were. She was a nervous wreck if she had to leave her suburban sprawl neighborhood for the big city -- what if there was a tunnel she had to go in without service, what if the tall buildings blocked a signal? Camping? Forget it. Too remote. She suffered from intense fear of excommunicaptiation.
Etymology: ex, no longer + communi, communication + cap, head + ation, state of being
Tunnaphobia
Created by: sammyclark
Pronunciation: tun-ah-fo-bee-ah
Sentence: to feel distressed and panicy about losing cell phone reception in a tunnel
Etymology:
Gophoneoff
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: go PHONE off
Sentence: Matty would gophoneoff! completely stark raving mad that her cell momentarily would lose service. Were subways SUPPOSED to go underground!
Etymology: A combination of “GO OFF” or to go mad, and phone.
Ultracelloc
Created by: EBalser
Pronunciation: Ultra-sell-lock
Sentence: I was ultracelloc when i lost service while driving to school.
Etymology: ultra-extreme cell-cell phone loc-place A place of extreme cell phone stress.
Telephonecellattack
Created by: balku4
Pronunciation: te=le-fown-cel-la-tac
Sentence: help she is having a telephowncellatack
Etymology: its in the word
Antivocaphobia
Created by: ttime77
Pronunciation: an-tie-voke-a-fobe-e-a
Sentence: the woman that was very excited about the conversation that was being held on her phone. When the train she was on went into a tunnel, her phone lost service thus she was diagnosed with antivocaphobia.
Etymology: anti- not voc- to call phobia- to be afraid of
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COMMENTS:
this word sucks.. - sjacksonnnn4, 2011-10-26: 15:15:00
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Exomund
Created by: beardo
Pronunciation: As its spelled... Ex-o-mund
Sentence: I have been Exomunded ever since the satilite fell out of the sky.
Etymology: Exo-, outside -mund, world
Nonconexaphobia
Created by: jboileau97
Pronunciation: NoN-Con-Ex-A-PhO-BiA
Sentence: My friend suffers noncenexaphobia.
Etymology: Non- not Conex-conecceted Phobia- fear of Fear of not being connected
Tingalingxiety
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: tingaling-Zahy-i-tee.
Sentence: "Ring, ring, why don't you give me a call" abbamatically reperdittied inside Bob's tunestuck head. He had lost his mobile, and felt like he was in cellutary confinement. Exilophoned, he cried out, "How loud is the silence, doesn't it ever go away?" Orphoned, telereaved, he prayed that it hadn't fallen into the wrong hands. His pathetic dependence on it, together with his excessive texting and phoning, made him a chatatonic cliche, a stereotype of tingalingxiety.
Etymology: TINGALINNG: onomatopoeia for the sound of a phone & ANXIETY:troubled, uneasy, distressed.
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COMMENTS:
five bonus verboticisms, not counting the off-def ones. Amazing. You're a star. Pronunciation is a bit awkward, though. Is that what you really meant? - stache, 2008-04-03: 07:23:00
so many great words - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-03: 13:00:00
yes, that's what I thought. Better now (says your friendly pronuncidunce (Pro NUN suh dunce)). - stache, 2008-04-03: 18:41:00
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Ancellphobia
Created by: ThomasCannaday
Pronunciation: An-sell-foe-be-ah
Sentence: A lot of the teenage girls of the 21st century often suffer from Ancellphobia during school.
Etymology: An-Without Cell- Reference to a cell phone Phobia- Fear of
Comments:
stache - 2008-04-03: 01:35:00
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stache - 2008-04-03: 01:37:00
to whom is credit for the definition owed, james?
Ah... Actually I made it up! Cheers ~ James
stache - 2008-04-03: 18:47:00
way to go.
holy smokes, half the universe gave a verboticism