Verboticism: Blackberror
DEFINITION: v. To feel stressed and anxious and when your mobile phone runs out of battery power, drops its network connection, or in the worst case, gets misplaced and lost. n. A panic attack caused by an interruption in your mobile phone service.
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Discellusionment
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: dis/sell/oo/shun/ment
Sentence: Cathy froze in a state of complete discellusionment when her cellphone disconnected. The experience was so shocking that she remained cellibate forever after.
Etymology: disillusionment + cell + lose
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COMMENTS:
Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-04: 04:54:00
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Phonecrashing
Created by: Suzanne112
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Your phone doesn't work, you can't help it. Your phone crashes, and you.
Etymology:
Potty
Created by: jockeymo
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
? - stache, 2008-04-03: 01:36:00
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Distelephobia
Created by: lauram22
Pronunciation: dis-tell-eh-fo-b-ia
Sentence: Jenny was overcome with distelephobia when she couldn't find her cell phone
Etymology: dis- lost tele- phone phobia- fear of
Nonconexaphobia
Created by: jboileau97
Pronunciation: NoN-Con-Ex-A-PhO-BiA
Sentence: My friend suffers noncenexaphobia.
Etymology: Non- not Conex-conecceted Phobia- fear of Fear of not being connected
Panicphonia
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: pan - ick - fon - ee - aaaaaahhhh
Sentence: Lucille was so dependent on being in constant phone communication that she experienced panicphonia anytime her service was inerrupted, even if it was just for a few seconds.
Etymology: panic (a sudden fear which dominates or replaces thinking) ---> phone (electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances) ---> phobia (an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things)
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COMMENTS:
sounds like a real word - good one - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-22: 13:11:00
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Blackberiberi
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: blahk behree behree
Sentence: It was the worst case of blackberiberi ever seen, causing severe iphobia and naukea
Etymology: blackberry beriberi
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COMMENTS:
phonetically perfect! - Nosila, 2011-10-26: 07:20:00
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Cellinervosa
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: sell - eh - nerv - oh - sa
Sentence: Judy had a severe attack of cllinervosa when she realized that she had left her phone charger at home and her battery was almost run down. How would she live without live chat, mobile social apps, games and her tunes. These things were what allowed her to survive her workday.
Etymology: Cell (cell-phone) + Nervosa (a nervous disorder)
Nophonobia
Created by: diyan627
Pronunciation: no-fn-obia the accent is on OBIA. fn is barely pronounced
Sentence: Despite Lana's nophonobia, ironically, she's always one to lose her phone or accidentally destroy it in odd ways like when she dropped it in her water at Pei Wei as she passed it to Zack.
Etymology: no + phone + phobia (an intense, abnormal, or illogical fear of a specified thing)
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COMMENTS:
Great word! - Mustang, 2008-04-03: 18:59:00
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