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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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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)
Gronkdialing
Created by: milorush
Pronunciation: (n.) grŏngk'dīl-ĭng; (tr. v.) grŏngk'dīl
Sentence: Gronkdialing is a useful technique up until the cellphone battery dies.
Etymology: gronk = (a fool or idiot) + [drunk]dialing
Callmeme
Created by: retoricaljoe
Pronunciation: call me me
Sentence: She´s still callmemeing. she might have left her cellphone in another place.
Etymology:
Tonely
Created by: earljw
Pronunciation: tohn-lee
Sentence: When I called my cell I could hear its tonely sound coming from the pocket of my jeans. Now if I only knew where I left my jeans.
Etymology: tone + lonely
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COMMENTS:
nice word. brings back bad memories though - leechdude, 2007-11-09: 20:50:00
Celp! - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-10: 05:12:00
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Acryptomne
Created by: EvelynS
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After suffering from various cases of acryptomne, I've learned to never keep my ringtone on silent.
Etymology: (a- without + crypt- hidden + mne- remember, memory)
Mobilunearth
Created by: Kevcom
Pronunciation: mao-bull-unn-err-th
Sentence: Mr. Jenkins mobilunearthed his Loserphone L535 by calling it systematically 7 times in a row while he was in different places about the house. Luckily, the phone wasn't on vibrate, but was on the lowest volume setting, and with Mr. Jenkins' 20/20 like hearing, it was no problem finding his L535.
Etymology: mobile cell + unearth (to discover)
Amnegon
Created by: YourEnglishPal
Pronunciation: nope
Sentence: Finding this cell phone will be an amnegon...
Etymology: MNE- to remember Agon- Struggle "Struggle to remember"
Sonacryptaphone
Created by: danibriggs
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Hold on dude, I'm listening for my sonacryptaphone!
Etymology: sona-sound crypt-hidden phone-sound
Cellectivehearing
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: sell/ek/tiv/hearing
Sentence: Fortunately for Bill, who was forever misplacing his cell phone, his cellectivehearing was so finely tuned that he could pick out his ring tone in a hay stack.
Etymology: selective hearing + cell
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COMMENTS:
nice one JW - galwaywegian, 2008-10-08: 14:55:00
Good one! - TJayzz, 2008-10-08: 14:59:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James'
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James