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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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Knoblivion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nob liv ee yon
Sentence: When Olivia hit the volume button on her ipod, she managed to enter her own little world, unaware of anything around her. She created a world of knoblivion, where nothing else existed but her. It was during this state of knoblivion that she failed to notice the red sports car that barely missed her and had to swerve into a big tree, flipping over the vehicle and trapping the driver. Calamities to others followed her until one day, she ignored the warning bells and the 4:15 downtown bus punched her ticket permanently.
Etymology: Knob (dial;button that controls volume) & Oblivion (forgetfulness;a state of being unaware)
Ignoiser
Created by: Hjason
Pronunciation: ig-noi-ser
Sentence: They are such an ignoiser that unless we are talking about how wonderful they are, they simply ignoise us.
Etymology: ignore+noise+poser
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).
Poddybraining
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: pod-ee-brain-ing
Sentence: You could always tell when Bob's wife had been nagging, as you'd find him poddybraining afterwards.
Etymology: ipod, brain
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.
Noblivious
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nob liv ee us
Sentence: Isadora was noblivious when she zoned in on her music and dialed away the world. She missed seeing so many accidents that she caused due to her inattention.
Etymology: Nob (variant spelling of KNOB,a button on a dial to adjust sound on a radio) & Oblivious (failing to keep in mind)
Intunent
Created by: EonaFrae
Pronunciation: in-two-nent
Sentence: With the music blaring and her arms shaking, Rebecca's intunent energy was contagious.
Etymology: In [prefix: in, into] + Tune [a succession of musical sounds forming a melody] + Ent [suffix: full of]
Ignorance
Created by: hamburgerman
Pronunciation: eye gno ranse
Sentence: the man's iGnorance led him to forget that he could be using a far more advanced music system.
Etymology: i(as in ipod/i anything made by steve jobs) + ignorance = iGnorance
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COMMENTS:
stupid steve - hamburgerman, 2009-08-20: 21:23:00
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Ipotunism
Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts
Pronunciation: "eye-poe-tune-is-im"
Sentence: I find my personal zen in the practice of ipotunism.
Etymology: from IPod, Tune and the buddhist "ism"
Comments:
ituneout