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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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Stolange
Created by: suchipatel
Pronunciation: Stoh - linj
Sentence: She spent the day stolanging in the hopes that she'd hear her ringtone in the clutter of her room.
Etymology: Stol - To send Angel - Message "To send a message"
Phonamne
Created by: 719985
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I lost Katy Perry's phone and couldn't find it, so I called it and heard the phonamne!
Etymology: phon - sound, a, mne - to remember
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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Sonacryptaphone
Created by: danibriggs
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Hold on dude, I'm listening for my sonacryptaphone!
Etymology: sona-sound crypt-hidden phone-sound
Cellabait
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sell a bate
Sentence: Hope was running out. Hope had to get to work at the Drag Club soon. But Hope could not find his cellphone. After much searching through the piles of clothes and costumes scattered around Hope's house, Hope dialed the cellphone number on the house phone and Hallelujah, the cellabait cellabrations could begin when the weak but distinctive musical sound of Hope's cellphone belting out "I'm just a girl who cayn't say no" rang out joyously amid the heaps of lace and satin!
Etymology: cell (cellular telephone) & abate (to reduce in intensity)& bait (to lure) & celibate (abstaining from sex by taking a vow)
Hyperphonism
Created by: ysledd
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His hyperphonism was beginning to give me a headache.
Etymology: Hyper-, excessive phon-, sound, voice ism-, belief in
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
Rinloctize
Created by: worthingway
Pronunciation: rin-lock-tize
Sentence: i can't find my phone, will you rinloccitize it for me?
Etymology: ring+lost+tize
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COMMENTS:
I like the pronounciation and the way it sounds. - worthingway, 2007-11-10: 18:59:00
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Alzherphoning
Created by: Floatzilla
Pronunciation: Like an American would say it
Sentence: "Whoever you are, go in the other room and listen while I'm altzerphoning."
Etymology: Tastless humorous reference to symptoms associated with Alzheimer's
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James'
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James