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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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Matrixiety
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: mā'trĭ-zī'ĭ-tē
Sentence: Denny suddenly realized he had left his Blackberry at the office. The doors of the metro had just closed. He began to sweat cold droplets as the matrixiety set in and he realized he would be off the grid-no email, cell phone or internet connection-and utterly unable to check his standing on VERBOTOMYtm-for at least an hour.
Etymology: 'matrix,' var. of 'matriz,' rap form of matress, as in 'doing my biz, on the matriz, she loves my jiz;' 'iety,' egoism.
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COMMENTS:
great etymology - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-03: 13:13:00
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Discellusionment
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: dis/sell/oo/shun/ment
Sentence: Cathy froze in a state of complete discellusionment when her cellphone disconnected. The experience was so shocking that she remained cellibate forever after.
Etymology: disillusionment + cell + lose
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COMMENTS:
Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-04: 04:54:00
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Cellophobia
Created by: mwgloe21
Pronunciation: Cell-O-Phobia
Sentence: Jane suffered from cellophobia when she went through a tunnel.
Etymology: cell, -phobia-fear of
Ipanic
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: eye-panic
Sentence: Demetri began to iPanic as the power bled dry from his iPhone in the middle of an Angry Birds battle.
Etymology: i - apple prefix for everything; panic - to panic
Mobilephobia
Created by: lindseyhamrick
Pronunciation: Mo-bull-pho-bia
Sentence: Anne went through mobilephobia for a week when she left her phone at her house when she went on vacation.
Etymology: Phobia- fear of
Roamophobe
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: Rohm-ah-fobe
Sentence: Bruce, with his pink Razr phone and its several Hello Kitty charms attached, would openly weep in roamophobic terror when the bus would enter the Lincoln Tunnel. How was he supposed to watch reruns of Project Runway with no bars?
Etymology: roam - use of a cell phone outside of one's calling area, phobe - person who has a particular phobia
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COMMENTS:
very funny sentence - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-03: 10:58:00
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Panicell
Created by: scarletzinc
Pronunciation: pah-nee-sayl
Sentence:
Etymology: Panic Cell
Blackberiberi
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: blahk behree behree
Sentence: It was the worst case of blackberiberi ever seen, causing severe iphobia and naukea
Etymology: blackberry beriberi
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COMMENTS:
phonetically perfect! - Nosila, 2011-10-26: 07:20:00
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Potty
Created by: jockeymo
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
? - stache, 2008-04-03: 01:36:00
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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