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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.
Verboticisms
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Diallocate
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: dahyl-LOH-keyt
Sentence: A teasing telenigma taunted Bob with the usual "notingaling" when he tried to diallocate and phonepoint his cellphone.
Etymology: 1. Dial & locate. 2. Notingaling (Pr. no-ting-a-ling): The sound of a lost (cell) phone. 3. Phonepoint: Based on phone & pinpoint.
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COMMENTS:
I love notingaling - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-09: 09:38:00
Wow, four great words! ...Gets my vote. - Tigger, 2007-11-09: 19:21:00
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Cellicit
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: cell/lis/it
Sentence: When Joe misplaces his phone, he cellicits it by relying on the cellhearular method of calling his own number and listening carefully for his personal and unique ring tone.
Etymology: CELLICIT - verb - from - CELL PHONE + ELICIT (to bring, draw out, or call forth)
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COMMENTS:
great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-08: 10:10:00
Cellicit is also when telemarketers for phone companies call you at home, during dinner, every night! - Nosila, 2008-10-08: 20:33:00
Excellent - Mustang, 2008-10-09: 05:17:00
Terrific - OZZIEBOB, 2008-10-09: 17:03:00
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Awtellme
Created by: looseball
Pronunciation: awe tell me
Sentence: listen I hit the awtellme button
Etymology:
Blackdingleberry
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Black-DING-gull-bare-ree
Sentence: Ricky had to blackdingleberry his smartphone for 15 minutes before he finally found it in his pants pocket, in the laundry bin, in the basement, just before Hildegarde dropped it into the washing machine.
Etymology: Black: as in 'black hole' + Blackberry: a popular cell phone organizer gizmo + Ding: a vague and unspecific ringtone + Dingleberry: what you feel like when you can't find your cell phone.
Reconnaiscelling
Created by: thebaron
Pronunciation: re-con-nais-cel-ling
Sentence: Jerry lost his phone again... So began the daily reconnaiscelling mission.....
Etymology:
Cowcell
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: cow-sel
Sentence: Not only do I keep losing my phone, but also keep forgetting where I am, so my wife tied a cellphone around my neck and told me to call it whenever I get lost. It works! 'Cause now I know where I am -- right here.
Etymology: Cowbell transformed by a cellular phone
Anticicall
Created by: leechdude
Pronunciation: an-ti-si-cal
Sentence: In order to hear the ring tone, Joe had to anticicall quite hard because some guy yesterday had changed his ringtone to a faint humming noise.
Etymology: anticipate, call
Selfphone
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: self-fone
Sentence: When rummaging through the dirty laundry, garbage, and refrigerator didn't work, Bob tried to selfphone his number in the hope that he could hear his lost phone.
Etymology: cel phone, self
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COMMENTS:
I dig it. - dubld, 2007-11-09: 09:40:00
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Callmeme
Created by: retoricaljoe
Pronunciation: call me me
Sentence: She´s still callmemeing. she might have left her cellphone in another place.
Etymology:
Crypthesis
Created by: delanybug
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I lost my phone a few days ago, its now in a crypthesis place never to be seen again.
Etymology: crypt-hidden the-place a hidden place, no where to be found.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James'
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James