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DEFINITION: v. To turn up the volume on your ipod and zone out all exterior noise, chatter, distractions, and focus on what's really important - your own feelings! n. A person who is humming their own tune, and ignoring everything else.
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Oblissvious
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: əblisvēəs
Sentence: Mary seems to always have her earbuds stuck in her ears. She goes through life completely oblissvious to what is going around her. Co-workers are amused to see her dancing down the hall whisper-singing her favorite tune. The scary part is that her iPod hasn't worked for weeks. All the music she hears comes from her head.
Etymology: oblivious (not aware of or not concerned about what is happening around one) + bliss (perfect happiness; great joy)
Ipodicate
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I'm going to ipodicate, I may be sometime.
Etymology:
Emodiate
Created by: ScyldScefing
Pronunciation: /imO:djEIt/ (EI is dypthong)
Sentence: The street was so noisy, and all that people... lucky I had my Ipod so I could emodiate through it all the way home
Etymology: "emo", root taken from both "emotion" and also "emote", or show emotion through audiovisual means or signs, such as "smileys". "dia" as termination for "multimedia", referring to what you can hear or see in the "ipod". "-te" as verb ending.
Audiosamigo
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: aw-dee-OHS-a-MEE-goh
Sentence: Jim sat behind his desk, closed the textbook, took out his MP3 player, smiled at the class, and -- audiosamigo!
Etymology: audio + adios + amigo
Myopera
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: My-op-er-ah
Sentence: Maria's myopera did not mean she needed to wear her headphones ALL the time, no, it was just whenever she was awake.
Etymology: Rythmic fusion of 1) Myopia - condition commonly referred to as shortsightedness (which is quite a long word) and 2)Opera - musical which is very small (or far away) and requires the audience to use binoculars in order to see the players on the stage.
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COMMENTS:
Based on myopia? - artr, 2009-08-06: 11:11:00
Diva-licious word!!! Does this mean the Presbyopera means when you sing in a Protestant Church??? - Nosila, 2009-08-07: 22:29:00
Presbyopera, some kinda weird Elvis convention, probably would've could've should've been the subject of a Fr Ted Christmas special. - scrabbelicious, 2009-08-08: 09:43:00
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Oblivipod
Created by: microwavedboy
Pronunciation: Ob-live-i-pod
Sentence: She didn't notice the traffic swarming around her - she was a complete oblivipod.
Etymology: Oblivious. Ipod.
Tonezoner
Created by: logan260
Pronunciation: TONE-ZONE-UR
Sentence: SHE'S SUCH A TONEZONER I'M SUPRISED SHE DOESN'T GET RUN OVER
Etymology: TONE-BEING TONED IN TO TUNES BEING ZONED OUT AS IN IN HER OWN WORLD
Narcisstatistic
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nar sis stat tis tik
Sentence: No wonder there are so many distracted driving laws and lawsuits against people too stupid to concentrate on what they are doing and act safely. Take Penny, who merrily walked into the path of a car on the street, oblivious due to her wearing her earpads, listening to fluffy pop music. The driver of the car lost control to avoid her, flipped over and went to Heaven. Penny herself narrowly avoided becoming another narcisstatistic and still doesn't know it!
Etymology: Narcississtic (characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance) & Statistic (a datum that can be represented numerically)
Ignorance
Created by: hamburgerman
Pronunciation: eye gno ranse
Sentence: the man's iGnorance led him to forget that he could be using a far more advanced music system.
Etymology: i(as in ipod/i anything made by steve jobs) + ignorance = iGnorance
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COMMENTS:
stupid steve - hamburgerman, 2009-08-20: 21:23:00
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Escapod
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ess-cayp-odd
Sentence: as her parents started fighting in the front seat, she decided to escapod for the rest of the journey
Etymology: escape, ipod
Comments:
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