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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.
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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
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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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)
Surrepicturious
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sur-uh-pik-cher-uhs
Sentence: The proliferation of camera phones has meant an explosion of surrepicturious moments.
Etymology: surreptitious(obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized) + picture (photograph)
Cellpwnd
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: selpoĘŠnd
Sentence: Michael certainly has a better idea that his life has few private moments after being cellpwnd at a house party.
Etymology: Cell (cellular telephone) + pwnd (a leetspeak slang term, derived from the word "own", that implies domination or humiliation of a rival)
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COMMENTS:
nice etymology - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-06: 11:59:00
A modern word for these modern times! Excellent sentence, too. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-09: 20:02:00
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Cellsnapped
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: sell-snapp-d
Sentence: Deedra Directionless, cellsnapped her ears and face and sometimes body parts when she used her new iPhone. Her boyfriend, Sam Snickering was cellsnapping her while she slept, filling up her phone with all kinds of unusual images.
Etymology: Cell-short for cellular phone-(Electronics & Computer Science / Telecommunications) a portable telephone operated by cellular radio In full cellular telephone. Snapped-To take (a photograph).
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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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)
Kleptograph
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: KLEP to graf
Sentence: Kleptographing with a cell phone camera is very difficult, with the delay after pressing the shutter, the person will move and you'll end up with a fuzzy image of the wrong body part. To get a good frame of the body part you want, use an expensive digital camera, preferrably one with an image stabilizer. Practise! practise! will allow for stealth in sneaking your kleptographs.
Etymology: kleptograph n. or v. is from the words kleptomania (urge to take) and photograph.
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COMMENTS:
Wonderful etymoplogy and verbotomy - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 22:21:00
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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