Verboticism: Ignoiser
DEFINITION: v. To turn up the volume on your ipod and zone out all exterior noise, chatter, distractions, and focus on what's really important - your own feelings! n. A person who is humming their own tune, and ignoring everything else.
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Inthezone
Created by: Flamechick911
Pronunciation: In-the-zone
Sentence: Later on they told me she'd been screaming my name for an hour, but I can't help it if I'm inthezone.
Etymology: from zoning out
Ipodigy
Created by: vishalrix
Pronunciation:
Sentence: From the day she got her first ipod, her parents knew she was a ipodigy.
Etymology: ipod + prodigy
Iternalize
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /I-'t&r-n&-"lIz/
Sentence: Iternalizing is a good way to avoid annoying small talk with the person sitting next to you on the bus.
Etymology: From i- (as in iPod, iTunes, and iMac) and internalize
Narcisstatistic
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nar sis stat tis tik
Sentence: No wonder there are so many distracted driving laws and lawsuits against people too stupid to concentrate on what they are doing and act safely. Take Penny, who merrily walked into the path of a car on the street, oblivious due to her wearing her earpads, listening to fluffy pop music. The driver of the car lost control to avoid her, flipped over and went to Heaven. Penny herself narrowly avoided becoming another narcisstatistic and still doesn't know it!
Etymology: Narcississtic (characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance) & Statistic (a datum that can be represented numerically)
Inarcisdissociate
Created by: bokashiman
Pronunciation: eye-nar-sis-dis-so-she-ate
Sentence:
Etymology: from narcissism - love of self and dissociation - zoning out
Dittydunce
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: dittie-dunce
Sentence: She was acused of being a dittydunce when her tone-deaf humming made all the neighbourhood dogs run for cover.
Etymology: ditty (song, tune) + dunce (idiot, simpleton)
Obmusicate
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: Verb: ob-mUs-i-kait Noun: ob-mUs-i-kuht
Sentence: Verb: Travellers on the London Underground frequently obmusicate. Noun: (Usually teenager) "Please turn off your music at the dinner table - you're such an obmusicate".
Etymology: From 'ob' (against).
Emodiate
Created by: ScyldScefing
Pronunciation: /imO:djEIt/ (EI is dypthong)
Sentence: The street was so noisy, and all that people... lucky I had my Ipod so I could emodiate through it all the way home
Etymology: "emo", root taken from both "emotion" and also "emote", or show emotion through audiovisual means or signs, such as "smileys". "dia" as termination for "multimedia", referring to what you can hear or see in the "ipod". "-te" as verb ending.
Audiovile
Created by: omista
Pronunciation: aw-di-O-VIL
Sentence: her disregard for the world around her was exemplified in her audiovile ways, especially when she was plugged into her new Ipod
Etymology: Audiophile + vile
Mypod
Created by: Psychicsi
Pronunciation: My-Pod
Sentence: Belle was a Mypod, and not a thing else mattered.
Etymology: I-pod, the popular mp3 player, and my pod, denoting ownership of the self imposed bubble one listening to an ipod inhabits.