Verboticism: Phonar
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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Denialtone
Created by: cysglyd
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Calling the missing mobile gained him nothing but a plaintive denialtone.
Etymology: dialtone, denial
Selfone
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sel fōn
Sentence: Mary was not very good at keeping track of her stuff. She once lost a sock while she was wearing it but her cellphone was the worst. She would selfone her cellphone whenever she misplaced it. Just last month she used up about nearly half of her minutes calling the bottom of her purse.
Etymology: self (a person's essential being that distinguishes them from others) + phone (short for telephone)
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-08: 10:12:00
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Phonlymne
Created by: InuYasha11
Pronunciation:
Sentence: For the third time this week, Melissa had once again made a phonlymne after leaving her cellphone on vibrate.
Etymology: Phon - sound Ly - to loosen Mne - to remember
Need-dial
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: need-diyul
Sentence: i find it helpful to put need-dial on speed-dial
Etymology: need, speed dial
Acryptomne
Created by: EvelynS
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After suffering from various cases of acryptomne, I've learned to never keep my ringtone on silent.
Etymology: (a- without + crypt- hidden + mne- remember, memory)
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.
Cellarouse
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: SEL-uh-rouz
Sentence: Brent was forever losing his cell phone in the clutter around his apartment and would often resort to a technique he called 'cellarouse' wherein he would call his cell from another phone hoping to locate the cell by it's ring.
Etymology: Blend of Cell (for cell phone) and arouse...to awaken.
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COMMENTS:
nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-08: 10:10:00
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Tonely
Created by: earljw
Pronunciation: tohn-lee
Sentence: When I called my cell I could hear its tonely sound coming from the pocket of my jeans. Now if I only knew where I left my jeans.
Etymology: tone + lonely
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COMMENTS:
nice word. brings back bad memories though - leechdude, 2007-11-09: 20:50:00
Celp! - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-10: 05:12:00
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Cellulocating
Created by: dubld
Pronunciation: sel-yu-LOH-keyt
Sentence: "Hey Mike!" "Shutup, I'm cellulocating and it's on vibrate."
Etymology: Cellular + Locating
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COMMENTS:
I think I should have said Self-cellulocating. Because regular cellulocating would happen when you get someone else to call your phone for you. - dubld, 2007-11-09: 09:32:00
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