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DEFINITION: n. A message, which does not include a name, a number, or any other relevant information which could be used to identify the caller. v. To leave a message without identifying yourself.
Verboticisms
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Namelessage
Created by: EffingCharms
Pronunciation: name-less-edge
Sentence: GR! If I find out who keeps leaving me these annoying namelessage's, I swear I'll... leave them one back!!!!
Etymology: nameless- without a name; without an identifyable characteristic -age the end of message, a letter or note left for someone when they're unattainable
Crypticall
Created by: iwasatripwire
Pronunciation: crip-tih-call
Sentence:
Etymology: cryptic + call
Anonymail
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: An-non-nee-male
Sentence: Jill got so many anonymails that she eventually learnt to identify her friends by the length of their pausing between words.
Etymology: Anonymous + mail
Telememorondumb
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: tele-mem-mOr-on-dum
Sentence: David listens to his telememorondumb messages, trying to use voice recognition to guess the ID of the callers leaving no information.
Etymology: telephone/memorandum,as in message/moron/dumb
Generovoice
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: jen-aro-voyce
Sentence: Ginger tired to figure out who left the generovoice message, but couldn't because she didn't recognize the caller's voice.
Etymology: Genero;(slang for "generic")Generic; is something that is general, common, or inclusive rather than specific, unique, or selective. Voice; sound produced by vertebrates by means of lungs, larynx, or syrinx; especially : sound so produced by human beings.
Callmoflage
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: kall - moe - flaj
Sentence: It looked like a phone call, it looked like a message. Wait; it was a callmoflage because Monica could not tell who it was from. The identity of the caller remained hidden inside the message and could not be identified.
Etymology: call, camoflage (hide by closely resembling the natural environment)
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COMMENTS:
The callmoflage before the storm...good word! - Nosila, 2009-09-25: 00:31:00
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Fromwhonication
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: from who nik kay shun
Sentence: Gisele hated the fact that all her 14 year old girlfriends left her messages, but she could not figure out who had sent them. She called this a fromwhonication and her friends could never figure out why she never called them back.
Etymology: From who? & Communication (the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information)
Beepbeepditch
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: beep-beep-ditch
Sentence: Thanks to caller-ID the number of beepbeepditches has drastically decreased over the last decade
Etymology: from the game ding-dong-ditch
Callerhidee
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kawl ler hy dee
Sentence: Ginger's new phone had all the bells and whistles and yet she still received mysterious calls from unknown senders. The person trying to reach her obviously had a callerhidee feature on their phone. After fretting for two weeks that she was being stalked by some masher, she went to the phone company. Mystery solved...it turned out to be a five year old in Buenos Aires who had just discovered his mom's phone and among other things, loved the beepy noises that the re-dial button made.
Etymology: Play on Caller ID (a small display that will show you the telephone number of the party calling you) & Hide (make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing)
Uselessage
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: use + less + edge
Sentence: Oh great, somebody left me another uselessage. When will they learn? WHEN?
Etymology: usless + message
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by erasmus.
Thank you erasmus! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by erasmus. Thank you erasmus. ~ James
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