Verboticisms

Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: ring-jurk

Sentence: I just can't let the phone ring, one ring and I ringjerk that button and answer.

Etymology: Ring (the sound your phone makes) + jerk (a combo of 'kneejerk' reaction and stupid)

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: ree/flex/sell/e/gee

Sentence: Her reflexcellegy was so finely tuned that she would respond to ringtones under any circumstances, even when scuba diving

Etymology: reflex + cell + reflexology (practice of stimulating nerves on the feet, hands and ears)

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COMMENTS:

reflexcellent! - galwaywegian, 2007-05-18: 06:37:00

Operator, well could you help me place this call? See, I'm under water and my cell phone's hazy. (Consider yourself Croce'd, Jabber!!) - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-18: 10:24:00

BTW, great word! - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-18: 10:26:00

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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: hel - LOH - to

Sentence: Like a monster out of a horror movie, Jill's hand shot out of the shower and in a second, hellotoed her ringing cellphone.

Etymology: Hello [What is often said at the beginning of a call conversation] + Auto [automatic]

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: nuu keee aaaaaaah

Sentence: His coitus was so regularly interrupted by the phone, he dubbed it his nookia

Etymology: nokia nookie

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: ring-stinct

Sentence: Jill interrupted a passionate kiss as her ringstinct kicked in, fumbling for the phone, she tells her man to hold the thought and they can resume the kiss as soon as she gets off the phone.

Etymology: ring/instinct

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COMMENTS:

clever! - galwaywegian, 2007-05-18: 07:27:00

Jill should have read the ringstructions and set up her voicemail - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-18: 10:48:00

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Created by: mikebezner

Pronunciation: yoo-ring

Sentence: Despite being on the toilet, Isaac couldn't help himself and, once again, uringed.

Etymology: Urinate+ring

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: sell-ob-sess

Sentence: My friend is cellobsessed because she always takes her phone into the washroom with her.

Etymology: cell (as in cell phone) obsess (to be preocupied or controlled by)

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Created by: BuenoCabra

Pronunciation: (AW-toh-spond)

Sentence: I hear my ring so often that whenever Beyonce's new song comes on the radio, I totally autospond.

Etymology: From "auto," short for automatic and "respond," meaning to react or answer.

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˌθʌmˈdʒɝk/

Sentence: Answering my cell phone is such a thumbjerk reaction that when it rings while I'm asleep, I will pick it up, open it, put it to my ear, say "Hello," and wake up, in that order. I sometimes have to ask whoever called to to repeat their first sentence.

Etymology: As in knee-jerk, only with a thumb.

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Created by: guesser

Pronunciation: auto-pilot-mode

Sentence: Despite her better judgement to leave the burning house, her brain, in autopilotmode, stopped to answer the phone on the way out the door!

Etymology:

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