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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.
Verboticisms
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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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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
Anthrophobiaectoclaacu
Created by: roulouken331
Pronunciation: AnthrOE- Phobia- EctOE- ClAH- AHcu
Sentence: Her Anthrophobiaectoclaacu was so bad she had to live only where there was service from her cell phone company.
Etymology: Anthro- Human Phobia- Fear of Ecto- outside Cla- to break Acu- To hear
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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Loconnection
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: lo-co-neck-shun
Sentence: Debbie was having a peaceful morning until she realized that she forgot to charge her cell phone. She went into a fit of pure loconnection as she panicked over not being able to send texts or make calls for the 2 hours while it charged.
Etymology: loco - spanish for crazy + connection also it is pronounced as "low connection" which could also set off a wave of panic in the cellular dependent
Mobilegroan
Created by: Kazizzle
Pronunciation: moh/bull/grown
Sentence: Denise released a loud mobilegroan when she realized her cell phone didn't get service in Europe.
Etymology: "Mobile phone" - a portable telephone and "Groan" - a low, guttural sound of frustration.
Blackberror
Created by: TimTheEnchanter
Pronunciation: BLACK-bare-er
Sentence: It wasn't bad enough that Gwen was running late for the meeting, but all hell broke loose when she suffered another BlackBerror and wasn't able to find out that the location had changed.
Etymology: BlackBerry + Error
Tunamobphobia
Created by: valevans
Pronunciation: ton-a-mo-bee-fo-bee-a
Sentence: Sally suffered from tunamobphobia when she was on a train about to go into a tunnel
Etymology: mob-move phobia-fear
Telecomaddict
Created by: CanadianAndyCapp
Pronunciation: Tell-eh-kom-add-ikt
Sentence: Such is the addictive and intrusive nature of the personal telecommunications explosion that it seems one cannot travel on public transit, walk in the street, sit in a park, visit a museum or art gallery without being assaulted by the jarring noise of someones cell phone or crackberry and the absolute insistence of the owner to immediately stop whatever they are doing to answer it. These telecomaddicts even get agitated or offensively angry if it is suggested they turn off these electronic devices and soon begin to exhibit classic symptoms that were previously associated with alchohol and drug withdrawal. Perhaps the story "Caves of Steel" is not so far fetched as it appeared when it was first published. THE LUDDITES WERE RIGHT!!!!!!
Etymology: Telecommunication- The subversive intrusion of electronic brainwashing and individual isolation through the disguise of increased freedom of communication. / Addict- The recipient of telecommunication
Cellabreak
Created by: torontorc
Pronunciation: sell-a-break
Sentence: I was talking to my mom when all of a sudden for no flippin' reason, I had a cellabreak and she was gone.
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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