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DEFINITION: v. To secretly take a photo of someone with your cellphone. n. A cellphone photo, especially if it was taken surreptitiously.
Verboticisms
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Snurk
Created by: elcanyonazo
Pronunciation: s-nur-k
Sentence: some weirdo just tried to snurk an upskirt when i walked downstair
Etymology: sneak
Eyepawed
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: eye pod
Sentence: Electronic devices have been a God-send for shy and somewhat bizarre people like Julie. When she gets a crush on some hot guy in her school (like a new one each week...way out of her league), she follows him around and secretly takes pics of him for her to daydream over. These poor guys don't even know they are being eyepawed by a stalker like Julie. Doesn't she watch CSI or Criminal Minds? This is how they eventually takedown people like her when the restraining order is enforced.
Etymology: Eye Pawed (to touch/drool over with your eyes) & Wordplay on iPod (portable media device range of products produced by Apple Inc, including ones with camera connectors)
Circumspicked
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sir cum spikt
Sentence: Jolene circumspicked her subjects well. Her cellphone was full of sexy pictures of hot guys running past her, looking at her oddly and hurriedly hiding their faces with their hands. Apparently she was looking for her Prints Charming.
Etymology: circumspect (heedful of potential consequences) & Pic (picture)& picked (chosen, selected)
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COMMENTS:
ROFL! Adore Prints Chrarming. Circumspicked sounds so delightfully naughty! Great creates - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 11:12:00
like it - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-06: 11:58:00
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Cellophoto
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sello foto
Sentence: Now everyone who owns a cell phone has become a paparazzo. When they see a famous person, they quick use their cell phone camera to get a candid shot, which in turn they try to market to the newspapers and magazines. It is a cellophoto moment, where a picture of a cellebrity is something you can sellaphoto to the media.
Etymology: Cell (cellular telephone;a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections (cells), each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver) & Telephoto (a photograph made with a telephoto lens)
Mobileguile
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Mow-bial-gy-al
Sentence: Fiona used mobileguile to take a photo of the new manager at work (who she had the hots for) to show all her friends in the pub how gorgeous he was.
Etymology: Mobile(as mobile phone) + Guile(sly,cunning) = Mobileguile
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COMMENTS:
A rhyme is good anytime! Nice one - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 22:19:00
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Creepertography
Created by: Alysonia
Pronunciation: Cree-per-ta-grah-fee
Sentence: "Someone is stalking me and sending me some serious creepertography." Can also be: "Look at this picture I found on Ted's phone of the back of my neck! He is such a Creepertographer!"
Etymology: A "creep," someone who is really sketchy, in the action of being sketchy and stalking becomes a "creeper," combined with "photography" thus forms creep-er-tography.
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COMMENTS:
Creepertography/Creepertographers - Alysonia, 2009-02-06: 14:08:00
Reminds me of a line from an old fun song: 'Jeerpers! Creepers! Where'd ya get those eyes?' Great create - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 22:18:00
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Concelling
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kon sel ling
Sentence: Jane became concerned that she was being cyberstalked and that the stalker was concelling her all the time. The fact that her hunter only took pictures of her ear should have been her first clue that she had accidently hit a button and was stalking herself.
Etymology: Concealing (hiding;doing something coverly or secretly) & Celling (using a cell app)
Spiphone
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sp eye fowhn
Sentence: Thanks to his spiphone, Veronica's secret no longer was.
Etymology: spy iphone
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COMMENTS:
ROFL! Supremely funny sentence wtih a superb verbote. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 11:04:00
terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-06: 11:57:00
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Skulkleptofurtigrab
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: skull-KLEPTO-fur-ti-GRAB (skulkleptofurtigraph)
Sentence: Sookie was lovely but shy and quite sneaky. Multiple piercings made her seem freaky. She shunned all the guys that she could've brought home, Preferring to just snap their pix with her phone. Sookie was later ejected from the local mall for trying to SKULKLEPTOFURTIGRAB a compromising shot of Santa Claus and his overworked captive Elf. She later returned wearing a ghillie suit, and is now undergoing court-ordered recalcitraining for her new-age affliction.
Etymology: SKULk+KLEPTOmania+FURTIve+GRAB= SKULKLEPTOFURTIGRAB.....SKULK:to act in a stealthy or furtive manner,to hide or conceal something (as oneself) often out of cowardice or fear or with sinister intent;Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian dialect skulka to lie in wait, lurk.....KLEPTOmania:a persistent neurotic impulse to steal especially without economic motive; New Latin 1830.....FURTIVE:obtained underhandedly,done by stealth, surreptitious, sly;French or Latin; French furtif, from Latin furtivus, from furtum theft, from fur thief, from or akin to Greek phōr thief; akin to Greek pherein to carry.....GRAB: to obtain unscrupulously, to take hastily,to take or seize by a sudden motion or grasp; obsolete Dutch or Low German grabben.
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COMMENTS:
GHILLIE SUIT:A ghillie suit, originally designed for hunting and now also used for military operations, is arguably the best type of wearable camouflage. Specifically, the suit is a full body piece of clothing that is designed to break up your body's outline and add texture. - metrohumanx, 2009-02-06: 09:00:00
You deserve a prize for the most sizable verbotomies and etymologies!Sighs-able! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 22:25:00
Thanks Silvery! Next week i'll stive to reduce. - metrohumanx, 2009-02-08: 11:43:00
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Photosinthisis
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: foe-toe-SIN-this-is
Sentence: Knowing she was once again committing an act of photosinthisis by sneaking a picture of Lawton while he showered, Juanita nevertheless went ahead with the deed anyway.
Etymology: Blend of PHOTO + SIN + THIS + IS Word play on the word photosynthesis. Dunno why, it just had a cool sound.
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COMMENTS:
Bodaciously badacious! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 11:03:00
Great word! - TJayzz, 2009-02-06: 14:16:00
Sinsational word! - Nosila, 2009-02-06: 22:16:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James