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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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Distelephobia
Created by: lauram22
Pronunciation: dis-tell-eh-fo-b-ia
Sentence: Jenny was overcome with distelephobia when she couldn't find her cell phone
Etymology: dis- lost tele- phone 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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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
Cellohpain
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: sell-oh-pane
Sentence: Passing through the cellyouvoid tunnel, Sue's cellohpain was plainly written on the furrowed lines of her face.
Etymology: cell (phone), oh, pain
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-03: 13:01:00
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Disconnexaphobia
Created by: Pmac46
Pronunciation: Dis-con-ex-uh-fobe-ee-uh
Sentence: The crazy looking girl's case of Disconnexaphobia has caused her to have a panic attack as she lost service while going into a tunnel.
Etymology: Dis- "lack of" + connex- "join together" + a +phobia- fear
Panicphonia
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: pan - ick - fon - ee - aaaaaahhhh
Sentence: Lucille was so dependent on being in constant phone communication that she experienced panicphonia anytime her service was inerrupted, even if it was just for a few seconds.
Etymology: panic (a sudden fear which dominates or replaces thinking) ---> phone (electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances) ---> phobia (an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things)
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COMMENTS:
sounds like a real word - good one - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-22: 13:11:00
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Igmobilephobia
Created by: sjacksonnnn4
Pronunciation: Igg-Mobile-Fobia
Sentence: igmobilephobia has gotten the best of me, i need to get out of these mountains!
Etymology: ig- without, mobile, phobia- fear
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
Cellphobiainterruptis
Created by: thebaron
Pronunciation: cell phobia inter rupt is
Sentence: Suddenly, she launched into a severe case of cellphobiainterruptis, while on the train!
Etymology: Latin- phobia -fear interruptis- Latin sudden attack
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