Verboticisms

Created by: weyrlady

Pronunciation: na-vel-pod-ing

Sentence: That girl on the subway was navelpodding so much she missed her stop.

Etymology: From "navel-gazing" and "iPod".

Vote For | Comments and Points

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: ob li vee meuse

Sentence: florence had a moment of complete oblivimuse until frank tapped her on the shoulder because she was singing out of key

Etymology: from being oblivious and amused by something

Vote For | Comments and Points

Created by: grammatically

Pronunciation: in-TER-pod-ize

Sentence: The school banned all music players for fear of students trying to interpodize.

Etymology: "inter" from root INTERNAL; "pod" from root iPOD

Vote For | Comments and Points

Created by: stormee

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology:

Vote For | Comments and Points

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ītoōnd

Sentence: Joyce is completely iTuned. If anything does not effect her directly or is not about her, she isn\\\'t interested. If any of her few friends try to tell her about their lives, she just iTunes them out. She refuses to use FaceBook because postings by others show up there and wastes her time. She preferrs to Tweet even though she has trouble understanding why more people haven\'t subscribed to her account.

Etymology: I (pronoun: first person singular) + tuned (adjust a receiver circuit such as a radio or television to the frequency of the required signal) + itunes (iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files)

Vote For | Comments and Points

Created by: jrogan

Pronunciation: idiopod

Sentence: Annie was a compulsive idiopod who was permanently plugged into her ipod. It was the soundtrack of her life, and she never missed a beat, unless it happened outside her head.

Etymology: ipod + idiot

Vote For | Comments and Points

Created by: adobrodt

Pronunciation: NAR-si-SIP-aw-dism

Sentence: Jenny's rampant narcissipodism caused her to miss all of Thanksgiving dinner.

Etymology: From narcissism and IPOD.

Vote For | Comments and Points

Created by: danboaz

Pronunciation: ap-aw-thi-DO-NIZ

Sentence: Any time the world gets to be too much, she apathedonizes through her diregard for what goes on around her by focusing on her own pleasure and favorite tunes

Etymology: apathy + hedonist

Vote For | Comments and Points

Created by: bghicks

Pronunciation: all about me

Sentence: it's allaboutme!

Etymology: whatever

Vote For | Comments and Points

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: empty-me

Sentence: Joy would plug into her Emptyme Player to tune out everything but what she wanted to hear. She was so shallow that, even when she wrecked her dad's new car with her boyfriend in it, the paramedics found her sitting on the curb singing along to "Oops I did it again" by Brittany Spears while her boyfriend moaned in pain in the front seat.

Etymology: empty+me -- wordplay on MP3 player

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Emptymology is perfect! - Nosila, 2009-08-07: 22:22:00

----------------------------

Vote For | Comments and Points