Verboticism: Brrringtone
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)
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)
Hiddaring
Created by: forlove169
Pronunciation: hid-a-ring
Sentence: When Jan could not find her phone, her last option was hiddaringing it to find its location.
Etymology: A combination of hidden and a ring.
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)
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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Cellseeus
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: sell/see/us
Sentence: When a cell phone is well and truly lost, a sure fire remedy is to phone your number and shout loudly 'cellseeus' - works ever time because they are just as reliant on us as we are on them.
Etymology: cell + see + us + celsius
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
Cellflocation
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: self-location
Sentence: Miranda had misplaced her mobile phone so many times that she had downloaded a special ringtone of Kelly Clarkson's song "you found me" for those cellflocation calls. At last she had really found herself.
Etymology: cell (as in cellphone) + self + location (the act of finding something)
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COMMENTS:
If it were only so easy to "find one's self"... Kudos for working Kelly Clarkson into your sentence. "Aaah, Kelly Clarkson!! -- Steve Carell, from 'The 40 Year Old Virgin' - Tigger, 2007-11-09: 02:56:00
good one petaj - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-09: 10:20:00
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Clutterring
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: klətərring
Sentence: Charley is quite poor at keeping track of things. He never sets things down in the same place twice. Things end up in the strangest places. He is still trying to figure out how one of his socks ended up in a mayonnaise jar in the fridge, but that*s a different story. His current challenge is to not loose his company-issued Blackberry. He has tried several unique techniques. First there was the gecko location which involved rubber-banding the phone to his pet lizard. FAIL! Mr. Green Britches just shed a tail and went off to sell insurance. Then he tried the string theory. He tied a string around his finger and one around the phone with the thought that like things attract. FAIL! He attached a cookie with a thought that somehow his computer would help him. FAIL! Following the ants only worked for a short time. Finally he has a method that works, clutterring. He bought a tiny, cheap cell that he keeps on a cord around his neck and calls the Blackberry when he needs it. If it is dark, the light on the phone acts like one of those **as seen on TV** specials, the Clapper.(clapperring)
Etymology: clutter (a collection of things lying about in an untidy mass) + ring (of a telephone; produce a series of resonant or vibrating sounds to signal an incoming call)
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:
