Verboticism: Lostandphoned
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.
Lostandphoned
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lost and foned
Sentence: Stanley's swinging bachelor pad was always such a mess that he usually misplaced his cell phone. The only way he could ever find it was to call it from the land phone and trace it. He called it the lostandphoned method. Too bad they had not yet invented a similar idea for missing eyeglasses...like if you made a spectacle of yourself, they would come into sight. Maybe if Stanley cleaned his place he wouldn't always lose his stuff!
Etymology: Play on Lost & Found (A repository in a public place, as in a school or theater, where found items are kept for reclaiming by their owners.) & Phoned (called on the telephone)
Points: 506
Comments: Lostandphoned
karenanne - 2010-03-08: 12:30:00
Good one
artr - 2010-03-08: 15:07:00
Good word. Just what I would have thought if I thought of it.