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DEFINITION: v., To call your cellphone when you have misplaced it, hoping that it will ring so that you can locate it. n., The sound of a lost cellphone.
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Couchufindit
Created by: tvharper
Pronunciation: kouch-you-fin-dit
Sentence: I lost my phone! Alright, I'll just have to couchufindit.
Etymology:
Cryptophonagogue
Created by: 718114
Pronunciation:
Sentence: We cryptophonagogued my phone and followed the hidden sound to it.
Etymology: Crypt: hidden, secret Phon: sound Agogue: to lead
Faultercall
Created by: haptotrope
Pronunciation: Fawl-ter-call
Sentence: Peering into the breeze of the abyss of things, and piles, and dirty underwear, Bill knew that the cellphone was there... so close, but a faultercall away.
Etymology: Faulter - being at fault, also evokes earthquake "fault" - and Call; phone call.
Cellfing
Created by: hendrixius
Pronunciation: "selfing"
Sentence: I've been cellfing my phone for hours, to no avail...I must have left it at the pub.
Etymology:
Amnegon
Created by: YourEnglishPal
Pronunciation: nope
Sentence: Finding this cell phone will be an amnegon...
Etymology: MNE- to remember Agon- Struggle "Struggle to remember"
Vibring
Created by: sipsoccer
Pronunciation: (vi-bring)
Sentence: To find his phone he had to use the house phone to vibring, so he knew where it was.
Etymology: Vi: vibrate Bring: as to ring.
Calltrawl
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kawl trawl
Sentence: When Fred's room got so messy that he'd lose his cellphone, he made a calltrawl from his landline to find it.
Etymology: Call (a telephone connection) & Trawl (to fish for something;search)
Marcalporing
Created by: scola
Pronunciation: mar-CALL-poh-ring
Sentence: Having left his phone in a pants pocket, the muffled marcalporing sounded from the bottom of Steve's laundry pile.
Etymology: "call" and "ring" meet "Marco Polo", the classic call and response kids game.
Exocryptomne
Created by: ntaylor
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After experiencing exocryptomne, now I will always keep my phone on ringer, not silent.
Etymology: (exo- outside + crypt- hidden + mne- memory)
Purscellual
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: per-sell-yu-uhl
Sentence: The piles of clothes and junk made for a difficult purcellual, luckily his dad had a metal detector.
Etymology: pursual (search) + cell (phone)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James'
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James