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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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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.
Transcendipod
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: tran+send+ip+od
Sentence: Teenagers are famous for transcendipoding in the presence of their parents
Etymology: Transcend (ental meditation) + ipod
Ituned
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)
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.
Poditive
Created by: shieldspikes
Pronunciation: po-di-tive
Sentence:
Etymology: iPod+Positive
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COMMENTS:
- shieldspikes, 2006-12-26: 19:35:00
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Iblissfulignorance
Created by: schleppo
Pronunciation: eye-bliss-full-ig-nor-ants
Sentence: Sally is in a state of iblissfulignorance
Etymology:
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)
Ituneout
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: "eye-toon-owt"
Sentence: On stressful Subway rides, Glenda would often ituneout.
Etymology: iTunes, tune out
Podaway
Created by: Adamson
Pronunciation: pod-a-way
Sentence: A nuke, no prob man, I'll just podaway from that sheed !
Etymology: Pod (iPod)+away
Interpodize
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
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