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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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Knoblivion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nob liv ee yon
Sentence: When Olivia hit the volume button on her ipod, she managed to enter her own little world, unaware of anything around her. She created a world of knoblivion, where nothing else existed but her. It was during this state of knoblivion that she failed to notice the red sports car that barely missed her and had to swerve into a big tree, flipping over the vehicle and trapping the driver. Calamities to others followed her until one day, she ignored the warning bells and the 4:15 downtown bus punched her ticket permanently.
Etymology: Knob (dial;button that controls volume) & Oblivion (forgetfulness;a state of being unaware)
Zombiplod
Created by: ce0brb
Pronunciation: Zomb-i-plod
Sentence: Mildred was zombiplodding around without a care in the world
Etymology: Zombie & Plodding & an "i" for good measure.
Poddybraining
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: pod-ee-brain-ing
Sentence: You could always tell when Bob's wife had been nagging, as you'd find him poddybraining afterwards.
Etymology: ipod, brain
Iptrovert
Created by: librarian
Pronunciation: ip'-tro-vert
Sentence: i was listening to my sister for a while but then just iptroverted because he was complaining about her friends.
Etymology: ipod + introvert
Dinsulate
Created by: durananrananran
Pronunciation: Din-SOO-late
Sentence: So she could focus on her yoga, Jane dinsulated herself from the traffic accident outside with a bit of Bon Jovi. Jane never joins in the conversation, she's always dinsulating.
Etymology: portmanteau of din and insulate
Buboomville
Created by: egonschiela
Pronunciation: bub-oom-vil
Sentence: It was useless shouting at Tracy; she was away in buboomville.
Etymology: buboom buboom buboom (you've all heard it) + ville (Fr.) area.
Hitune
Created by: hairydoginparis
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I HiTuned my iPod until I couldn't hear the baby's screams.
Etymology: Hi-from high, like high volume iTune-from the music played on iPods
Exclufect
Created by: Partario
Pronunciation: Ex-clu-fect
Sentence: I was walking along and it was exclufect
Etymology: Exclu from the word Exclusion and fect from perfect..perfect exclusion
Intunent
Created by: EonaFrae
Pronunciation: in-two-nent
Sentence: With the music blaring and her arms shaking, Rebecca's intunent energy was contagious.
Etymology: In [prefix: in, into] + Tune [a succession of musical sounds forming a melody] + Ent [suffix: full of]
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