Verboticism: Crypthphon

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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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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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
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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Cellfing
Created by: hendrixius
Pronunciation: "selfing"
Sentence: I've been cellfing my phone for hours, to no avail...I must have left it at the pub.
Etymology:
Amnegon
Created by: YourEnglishPal
Pronunciation: nope
Sentence: Finding this cell phone will be an amnegon...
Etymology: MNE- to remember Agon- Struggle "Struggle to remember"
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Denialtone
Created by: cysglyd
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Calling the missing mobile gained him nothing but a plaintive denialtone.
Etymology: dialtone, denial
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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Ecallocation
Created by: MithrilShadow
Pronunciation: E-kȯl-lō-ˈkā-shən
Sentence: Erin stumbled around her room, trying to find her cell phone via Ecallocation.
Etymology: From the words: Call: to get or try to get in communication with by telephone. and Echolocation: a physiological process for locating distant or invisible objects (as prey) by sound waves reflected back to the emitter (as a bat) from the objects
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COMMENTS:
EXCELLENT! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-11: 16:28:00
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Stolange
Created by: suchipatel
Pronunciation: Stoh - linj
Sentence: She spent the day stolanging in the hopes that she'd hear her ringtone in the clutter of her room.
Etymology: Stol - To send Angel - Message "To send a message"
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:
