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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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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.
Cryptemneia
Created by: kelseyslack
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I think i have cyyptemnia because i hear ringing of my phone but i cant find it!
Etymology: crypt- hidden... e-out...mne-amnesia..
Cellocator
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: SEL-oh-cayt-ehr
Sentence: Brad was forever misplacing his cell phone or having it hidden under a pile of clothing or other items and he had become fairly adept with his cellocator method which consisted of calling his cell from another phone, hoping to hear it ringing.
Etymology: Blend of 'cell' (cell phone) and 'locator' (a device for finding something)
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
Celelone
Created by: Eyeshah
Pronunciation: /CELL-uh-lone/
Sentence: "Where's my bloody cell!" clamored a flummoxed and fuming Ringo. "I've celeloned it several times now to no avail."
Etymology: cell+alone. Sounds like telephone.
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COMMENTS:
fun verb :) - badsnudge, 2007-11-11: 00:37:00
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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
Mnecrypt
Created by: eloper
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Trying to remember where his hidden phone is was a Mnecrypt.
Etymology: Greek: Mne- to remember Crypt- hidden
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
Lostone
Created by: vmalcolm
Pronunciation: /lɔ:stəʊn/
Sentence: Shh, shh, please, allow me to lostone my cell... Try to locate its lostone, can you hear it?
Etymology: LOSTONE. From Lost (No longer in the possession, care, or control of someone or something) + Ringtone (A ringtone or ring tone is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming call)
Fringer
Created by: xirtam
Pronunciation: fring-ger
Sentence: Yesterday I couldn't find my cell phone. I had to fringer it from my land line. Turns out it was on the roof of my car.
Etymology: Mash up of Finger and Ring. Finger: Greek Finger; To discover, locate. + Ring: Old English hringan; To announce or proclaim.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James'
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James