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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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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
Applesmack
Created by: memexikon
Pronunciation: ap ul smak'
Sentence: Applesmack my weird brain, I can't take it anymore.
Etymology: Apple (computer) + smack (heroin or slap)
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
Carefreeling
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: cayr-free-lingz
Sentence: Everyone has time when they just need to take care of their carfreelings.
Etymology: Carefree+feeling
Autoaudiosensualise
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation:
Sentence: to autoaudiosensualise is the perfect method of making oneself extreaneous to sonal diversions
Etymology: auto = self audio = sound sensualise = you all know what that means
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.
Impodsolate
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: im pod so late
Sentence: I was wrong to think I could impodsolate my way through the city streets without being distracted by reality.
Etymology: ipod + isolate
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
Tunehead
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: toon-hed
Sentence: "Wow, Rachel is a real tunehead. She walked right past that old woman who fell down without so much as a glance"
Etymology: tune + head
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.
Mpfree
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: empēfrē
Sentence: Brenda listens to music to the exclusion of all else. Her friends call her oblivious. She prefers MPfree.
Etymology: A play on MP3 music players
Obsessebrate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: obb-SESS-eh-brayt
Sentence: Melanie is a totally self absorbed person who will ignore the needs or feelings of others and her worst annoying habit it obsessebrating when her favorite tunes are playing and will have the volume turned as high as it will go.
Etymology: Blend of 'obsessed' (To preoccupy the mind of excessively) and 'celebrate' (publicly acknowledge (a significant or happy day or event) with a social gathering or enjoyable activity)
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
Iblissfulignorance
Created by: schleppo
Pronunciation: eye-bliss-full-ig-nor-ants
Sentence: Sally is in a state of iblissfulignorance
Etymology:
Audioblivious
Created by: Ahoytheship
Pronunciation: odd-ee-o-bliv-ee-us
Sentence: Due to the rockin' tune playing over his headphones, he was audioblivious to the large tiger stalking him.
Etymology: audio= having to do with sound oblivious= not paying attention to anything
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COMMENTS:
Please contract me on the real meaning I am audioblivious thank you - audioblivious, 2012-11-28: 19:58:00
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Emptyme
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
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COMMENTS:
Emptymology is perfect! - Nosila, 2009-08-07: 22:22:00
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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.
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)
Dittydunce
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: dittie-dunce
Sentence: She was acused of being a dittydunce when her tone-deaf humming made all the neighbourhood dogs run for cover.
Etymology: ditty (song, tune) + dunce (idiot, simpleton)
Ipotunism
Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts
Pronunciation: "eye-poe-tune-is-im"
Sentence: I find my personal zen in the practice of ipotunism.
Etymology: from IPod, Tune and the buddhist "ism"
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
Iternalize
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /I-'t&r-n&-"lIz/
Sentence: Iternalizing is a good way to avoid annoying small talk with the person sitting next to you on the bus.
Etymology: From i- (as in iPod, iTunes, and iMac) and internalize
Ituneout
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: "eye-toon-owt"
Sentence: On stressful Subway rides, Glenda would often ituneout.
Etymology: iTunes, tune out
Oblivego
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: oh bliv eego
Sentence: Melody had shortened her name to MeMe and it suited her well. She could not pass a window or mirror without gazing adoringly at herself. It was always all about her. Until that day when she strapped on her i-pod and went running, dancing down the busy street oblivego to all else around her. Too bad the loud rendition of "I did it my way" prevented her from hearing that Greyhound Bus heading her way...oops!
Etymology: Oblivious (Unaware of anything else;forgetful;unmindful)& Ego (an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others;your consciousness of your own identity;vanity;self-importance)
Iselfpodsessed
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: i - sellf - pod - sessed
Sentence: Julia became iselfpodsessed the very day she purchased her new ipod. Her new joy in life was to "plug-in" and tune out to the world around her. It enabled her to escape all worries, responsibilities and concern for other people. She now focused on what was important, her own musical happiness.
Etymology: ipod, self-possessed (having control of one's emotions or behaviour)
Audiovile
Created by: omista
Pronunciation: aw-di-O-VIL
Sentence: her disregard for the world around her was exemplified in her audiovile ways, especially when she was plugged into her new Ipod
Etymology: Audiophile + vile
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
Ipodulate
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: eye-pod-yoo-late
Sentence: Sometimes it helps to ipodulate and escape the trivialities and trials of life.
Etymology: Very obvious. From "ipod" and "isolate". Also note the "u" as a reference to the notion of making time for yourself.
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)
Narcissipodism
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.
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
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
Musolate
Created by: Krixwell
Pronunciation: moos-o-layt
Sentence: Emma really loved to listen to music, taking refuge from problems, annoyances and real life in general, usually musolating herself from everything else.
Etymology: music + isolate (to seperate something from its surroundings, in this case usually oneself)
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COMMENTS:
Just for the record, I made this before I went to read the other verboticisms, so the similarity to the submission "musisolating" is coincidental. - Krixwell, 2013-09-11: 09:26:00
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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.
Idiopod
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
Musisolating
Created by: seifip
Pronunciation: mus e solating
Sentence: Don't talk to me. I won't answer you as I'll musisolate.
Etymology: music + isolation
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
Ivoid
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ahy-void
Sentence: Mary loves her music. Once she sticks her earbuds in she can ivoid anything unpleasant or bothersome.
Etymology: i (from iPod/iPad) + avoid (to keep away from; keep clear of; shun)
Apathedonize
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
Iegosize
Created by: Stump
Pronunciation: I/ee-goh/sahyz
Sentence: Whenever things are bad I like to grab my MP3 player and iEgosize.
Etymology: mash of iPod, Ego and internalize.
Oblivivapoding
Created by: highwireart
Pronunciation: O-bli-va-pod-ing
Sentence: The spreadsheet was due by the end of the day and oblivapoding was the only way it was going to get done.
Etymology: Oblivious=The only existance is you and your world. Viva=To live IPod=Preserves sanity in a cubicle office environment
Allaboutme
Created by: bghicks
Pronunciation: all about me
Sentence: it's allaboutme!
Etymology: whatever
Igone
Created by: Wriiight
Pronunciation: Eye-Gawn
Sentence: Don't even try and talk to her, she's iGone.
Etymology: iPod + Gone
Enpodden
Created by: llimllib
Pronunciation: En-`pod-en
Sentence: I yelled at John, but he'd already enpoddened himself.
Etymology: En = to enter pod = iPod den = action suffix
Meetime
Created by: kaprikornbabe
Pronunciation: mee-time
Sentence: huh? i'm sorry i don't believe i was paying attention, for i was indulging in some MEETIME.
Etymology:
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
Inarcisdissociate
Created by: bokashiman
Pronunciation: eye-nar-sis-dis-so-she-ate
Sentence:
Etymology: from narcissism - love of self and dissociation - zoning out
Enpodded
Created by: hermionesnape
Pronunciation: en-pod-ed
Sentence: I was so enpodded that I didn't hear Mike fall into the ditch.
Etymology: to be enveloped in your ipod and the music therein.
Exteriorizing
Created by: soundbabyyy
Pronunciation: ex tear arise ing
Sentence: i am exteriorizing with my ipod
Etymology:
Obmusicate
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: Verb: ob-mUs-i-kait Noun: ob-mUs-i-kuht
Sentence: Verb: Travellers on the London Underground frequently obmusicate. Noun: (Usually teenager) "Please turn off your music at the dinner table - you're such an obmusicate".
Etymology: From 'ob' (against).
Oblivasorb
Created by: Marli
Pronunciation: O-bilv-a-sorb
Sentence: Charolette had not a care in the world as she oblivasorbed her way through the day!
Etymology: oblivious + self-absorbed
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]
Mpme
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: em-pee-me
Sentence: Cindy was having an mpme moment while she tuned out the world around her and listened to her iPod.
Etymology: mp3 + me
Idore
Created by: mdschermer
Pronunciation: I-dore
Sentence: Only when I really pump it up, I can tune out all the ordinary people around me and truly iDore myself.
Etymology: iPod and to adore put together, with the "i" at the beginning also stressing the importance of the self.
Michilton
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: mc hill ton
Sentence: She was too busy being michilton that she didn't see her boyfriend and me leaving the restaurant.
Etymology: to mimic paris hilton
Mypod
Created by: Psychicsi
Pronunciation: My-Pod
Sentence: Belle was a Mypod, and not a thing else mattered.
Etymology: I-pod, the popular mp3 player, and my pod, denoting ownership of the self imposed bubble one listening to an ipod inhabits.
Ignoiser
Created by: Hjason
Pronunciation: ig-noi-ser
Sentence: They are such an ignoiser that unless we are talking about how wonderful they are, they simply ignoise us.
Etymology: ignore+noise+poser
Noblivious
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nob liv ee us
Sentence: Isadora was noblivious when she zoned in on her music and dialed away the world. She missed seeing so many accidents that she caused due to her inattention.
Etymology: Nob (variant spelling of KNOB,a button on a dial to adjust sound on a radio) & Oblivious (failing to keep in mind)
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)
Narcissipod
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: nahr/ses/i/pod
Sentence: Narcissipodding is the only time I can get away from it all and deal with ME!
Etymology: narcissistic + ipod
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)
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
I-thistic
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: Ithistic
Sentence: Often an autist is recognised ad its I-thistic earphones.
Etymology: from autism
Oblivimuse
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
Ituneout
Created by: celeron450
Pronunciation: "eye-toon-owt"
Sentence: On stressful Subway rides, Glenda would often ituneout.
Etymology: iTunes, tune out
Inthezone
Created by: Flamechick911
Pronunciation: In-the-zone
Sentence: Later on they told me she'd been screaming my name for an hour, but I can't help it if I'm inthezone.
Etymology: from zoning out
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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Ipodicate
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I'm going to ipodicate, I may be sometime.
Etymology:
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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Egonore
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: E-go-nor
Sentence: While the clerk was robbed, I egonored her while listening to the new song from Justin Timberlake.
Etymology: Ego - an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others Ignore - to refrain from noticing or recognizing
Ipodigy
Created by: vishalrix
Pronunciation:
Sentence: From the day she got her first ipod, her parents knew she was a ipodigy.
Etymology: ipod + prodigy
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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Hipodnotism
Created by: lynx13
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: it is a word that contains the words "hypnotism" and "ipod" in one word
Musicape
Created by: lebeast
Pronunciation: muse-i-cape
Sentence: I live to musicape
Etymology: music+escape
Comments:
playdohheart - 2007-04-05: 06:14:00
ituneout