Verboticism: Selfphone
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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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)
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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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.
Amneing
Created by: scaredboy617
Pronunciation:
Sentence: It's hard amneing where I put my phone.
Etymology: The act of remembering.
Myselocate
Created by: badsnudge
Pronunciation: my sell uh kate
Sentence: Henrietta did not accompany Herman to the dog show because she could not successfully myselocate her mobile phone and she was awaiting an important call from her dentist who eventually informed her that the radio signal she was receiving through her molar was actually not transceiver-related, but rather a side effect of the anti-psychotic medication she was taking.
Etymology: my+cell+locate
Logmnegloss
Created by: AcesOfHearts
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Once again, the irresponsible adult began logmenglossing to look for his phone.
Etymology: Log-Speech mne- to remember gloss-Language
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..
Seafone
Created by: nhtbrink
Pronunciation: sea as in see, fone as in phone
Sentence: I'll try a seafone, perhaps I'll find it that way
Etymology:
Crypthphon
Created by: ashrogers1734
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I must crypthphon quickly! My phone has been lost for days, try to listen for the ring!
Etymology: Crypth - hidden or secret Phon - sound or telephone
Tingalinquery
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: TING-uh-LING-kweer-ee
Sentence: A teasing telenigma or tingalinquery taunted Bob with the usual "notingaling" when he tried to diallocate and phonepoint his cellphone.
Etymology: TING -A- lING: the sound of a phone & QUERY: a question; an inquiry.
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COMMENTS:
excellent! - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-08: 10:08:00
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