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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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Cellphonia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: sell - FONE - ya
Sentence: The thought of not having contact with the 'outside' world for even a minute or two would cause Daphne to have fits of cellphonia bordering on outright hysteria.
Etymology: Blend of cell phone with phobia OR paranoia.
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COMMENTS:
And, dyspnonia, which is Diane Rehm's affliction. - stache, 2008-04-03: 18:48:00
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Cellinervosa
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: sell - eh - nerv - oh - sa
Sentence: Judy had a severe attack of cllinervosa when she realized that she had left her phone charger at home and her battery was almost run down. How would she live without live chat, mobile social apps, games and her tunes. These things were what allowed her to survive her workday.
Etymology: Cell (cell-phone) + Nervosa (a nervous disorder)
Ademophobia
Created by: Haydon
Pronunciation: A, Dem O, Phopia
Sentence: The fear of losing conention of others.
Etymology: A- without demo- people phobia- fear
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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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.
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.
Etymology:
Cellxiety
Created by: Lauren19
Pronunciation: cell-ex-ziedy
Sentence: The woman has major cellxiety and couldn't let anything happen to her phone. She could not part from it.
Etymology: cell- mobile device exiety- to keep at all times.
Phonbia
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: fōnbēə
Sentence: Jill practically lives with her celly in hand. Talking, texting, surfing... she’s all about it. One of the problems this causes is a major case of phonbia, a general case of what if. What if the signal fades? What if the battery fails? What if she sprains her thumb? AAAAAAAAAAAA!
Etymology: phone (a system that converts acoustic vibrations to electrical signals in order to transmit sound) + phobia (an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something)
Nosigphobia
Created by: ErikLarson
Pronunciation: NO-sig-FObia
Sentence: I suffer from a very serious case of Nosigphobia.
Etymology: No- None Sig- Signal Phobia- Fear of
Cellyoufrightus
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sell ewe freye tusss
Sentence: she had all the symptoms of cellyoufrightus, red face, hyperventilation, itchy finger and tunnel vision. They all cleared up once the train left the tunnel.
Etymology: cellulitus cell you fright us
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COMMENTS:
she should have remained cellyoubate! - Nosila, 2010-06-11: 11:55:00
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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