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DEFINITION: v. To arrange with a friend to phone you with a "crisis" during a blind date, in case you need to make an emergency exit; n. A fake "emergency" phone call that is used to end a blind date.
Verboticisms
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Aracknaphonya
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ah-rak-na-PHONE-ya
Sentence: Pheobe's first impression of her blind date, Winston, was that he looked like a giant insect and was actually frightening and as a result she hovered near the phone awaiting a prearranged 'just in case' phone call that would offer her an 'escape clause'.
Etymology: Blend of 'arachnophobia' (fear of arachnids), 'acck' (expression of disgust' and 'phone' (cell phone)
Paramourgency
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: para merjin see
Sentence: When Tara met Gord, it was love at first fright. She had arranged for her best friend, May, to call her to interrupt the date if it was a paramourgency...and sadly it was. Gord neither looked as good as his photo, displayed the same characteristics as his profile, nor smelled especially fresh, even if his moves were. She knew if she had to save herself, she would have to resort to divirginary tactics. It was definitely time for a May Day call to come in!
Etymology: Paramour (a woman's lover) & Emergency (a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action)
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COMMENTS:
Hilarious! - especially the fresh moves and \'divirginary tactics\'! - splendiction, 2009-07-09: 12:00:00
great blend - Jabberwocky, 2009-07-09: 13:12:00
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Liedescape
Created by: edgegirl
Pronunciation: lie-de-scape
Sentence: I need to come up with a liedescape before tonite.
Etymology:
Wolfoption
Created by: tbAG84
Pronunciation: Wul-fop-shun
Sentence: "Sandra sure knows how to pick em. She was out with that nose-picker Dylan last night. I offered her the perfect wolfoption when i called her about my stubbed toe but she didn't take it!"
Etymology: Wolf- to cry wolf is to fraudulently raise alarm. from the modern parable The boy who cried wolf. Option- the availability of a choice in which to 'opt'
Celltingency
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: cell/tin/gen/see
Sentence: Jenny always arranged with Marsha a celltingcy escape on all her dates. Marsha was to call thirty minutes after the arranged meeting time to give Jenny 'an out' in case the guy was 'the date from hell'.
Etymology: cell + contingency (an event, or emergency that may happen, but is not certain to occur
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COMMENTS:
Nice word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-28: 21:37:00
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Outcallibi
Created by: pieceof314
Pronunciation: owt-call-ih-bye
Sentence: Janice kept looking at her phone. Her best friend was "giving birth" and she had to be on call to help her she told her date she just met for the first time in person. The pre-arranged outcall couldn't come any sooner she thought as he kept inching closer to her in the booth of the diner.
Etymology: out, as in giving someone a way out of a situation + call, a request or command to come + alibi, being somewhere else at a particular time
Ringormorsos
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ring/or/mors/us
Sentence: Since Julie wasn't sure if she could let her phone ring or simply vibrate during the date she pleaded with her friend to ringormorsos her so she could make her escape if necessary.
Etymology: ring + morse (as in morse code) + SOS + take on rigor mortis
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COMMENTS:
Good etymology - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-28: 21:38:00
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Palibi
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: pahl ib eye
Sentence: The palibi which was provided by her pally's, palarming phone call came just in time. she saw him reach for the breath freshener out of the corner of her eye as she answered the call.
Etymology: alibi, pal
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COMMENTS:
I hope she didnt have to pay palimony. Good word. - Mustang, 2008-05-28: 06:31:00
very nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-28: 16:07:00
Good word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-28: 21:37:00
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Pseudodatend
Created by: verbotobard
Pronunciation: pseudo date end
Sentence: Charlotte asked her friend for a pseudodatend, just in case she needed a quick finish to her blind date gone wrong.
Etymology: pseudo + date + end
Dialiverance
Created by: Rutilus
Pronunciation: dial-iver-anse
Sentence: "This guy was a creep" thought Gemma. Then the mobile went off. "Hi Lisa...Oh my god, you're joking...look I'll be right over!" "I'm really sorry but I've got to dash, I'll ring you, bye!" Thank God for Lisa, she'd kept to the plan and given Gemma dialiverance from this awful blind date.
Etymology: dial - to make phone call; deliverance - rescue from danger
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COMMENTS:
exellent word - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-28: 10:51:00
Hits it on the head. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-28: 21:36:00
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Simulurgent
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: simyəˈlərjənt
Sentence: Bob had a standing arrangement with his buddy Jim to give him simulurgent phoneycall to give him an escape if a blind date was not going well. This one was going very badly but no call was coming. If he had checked his voicemail, Bob would have known that Jim was on a blind date of his own and was expecting Bob to use his cellphoney to create a bogusaster.
Etymology: simulation (imitate the appearance or character of) + urgent (requiring immediate action or attention)
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COMMENTS:
lots of great words - Jabberwocky, 2009-07-09: 13:13:00
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Ringsquirm
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Ring-sqworm
Sentence: The blind date seemed to be going quite well until Bob mentioned his schizophrenia. Luckily for Sue she had arranged with her best mate to ringsquirm her with a phony emergency, so when her mobile rang to tell her that her 'cat' had been run over she made her excuses to leave immediately, leaving Bob in 'two minds' about what to do next.
Etymology: Ring(to contact by telephone)Squirm(to wriggle out of something) =Ringsquirm
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COMMENTS:
She'd always wonder which one she was out with...good word! - Nosila, 2008-05-28: 08:25:00
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Dentalcellepathy
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: dent/al/sell/epathy
Sentence: Dentists are providing dentalcellepathy for emergency calls. A microchip is implanted in a molar which can activate the emergency number needed to get you out of a scrape.
Etymology: mental telepathy + dental + cell
Amourgency
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: a moor jen see
Sentence: Muriel thought there really ought to be a law against the lies people said about themselves over the Internet. Like her date tonight. He said his name was Mel Gibson (and that picture of a younger Mel Gibson on his site was really misleading). It turns out his name was Smell Gibson and that was the name his biker gang had given him. There were other clues: he was single (because his wife had kicked him out); had a career (as a criminal); financially secure (since his pogey had kicked in); loved home cooking (as opposed to prison food);liked to go for long walks (since he'd lost his license);loved children (had several in various cities);and seeking female companionship (by the hour). Muriel had arranged for an amourgency phone call from her best friend Lisa if this meeting turned out to be disastrous. Come on Lisa, hurry up and make the darn call...before Muriel's picture ended up on a milk carton!
Etymology: amour (love; a secret or illicit relationship) & emergency (a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action)
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COMMENTS:
If you were cought cheating you'd nee the paramourmedics. great word! - galwaywegian, 2008-05-28: 05:55:00
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Fallbackcallback
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: fôlbakkôlbak
Sentence: When Cindy's blind date turned out to be a screaming bore, she resorted to a fallbackcallback, secretly texting her roommate, Gloria who called her to report an "emergency". Gloria may need some practice at this. The best crisis she could muster was a lost sock.
Etymology: fallback (an alternative plan that may be used in an emergency) + callback (a telephone call made to return a call received)
Blindoneone
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: bl ine d wun wun
Sentence: Flossie arranged that Marcy would make a blindoneone phone call to her sometime during the evening of her blind date with Harold. Flossie could then easily extricate herself on pretense of an emergency, if Harold proved to be an unpleasant experience.
Etymology: 911 (emergency phone number, emergency call), blind (blind date)
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COMMENTS:
- excellent! - splendiction, 2009-07-09: 12:02:00
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Phonexit
Created by: Redrover
Pronunciation: fone-exit
Sentence: Darlene had made specific arrangements with her friend Marsha to call 20 minutes into her blind date with Richard. She had met him online but when he pressed her for a live meeting she just had a nagging suspicion that he wouldn't be everything he professed to be. So she told Marsha that she needed a phonexit opportunity in case her intuition had been correct - and boy was it ever! She could smell him before he even approached the table and she wished she had arranged for the call the moment he arrived.
Etymology: phone + exit
Liephone
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: līfōn
Sentence: Jill and Heather have a standing agreement. If either is out on a blind date the other is to liephone to report an emergency as an out from a bad evening. It’s amazing how many times Jill’s grandmother has been rushed to the hospital this year.
Etymology: lie (an intentionally false statement) + phone (short for telephone)
Fleebyte
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: flea bite
Sentence: Elena quickly discovered she was allergic to her blind date. She started scratching her arms and neck as she waited impatiently for the fleebyte text on her mobile phone. Failing miserably at small talk under the itchy circumstances, she inwardly cursed that her best friend was so slow at composing a fake emergency message even though she could plainly see from the other side of the restaurant that Elena was a damsel in serious distress.
Etymology: flee (escapte) + byte (combination of bits used for digital characters)
Amourgency
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: a moor jen see
Sentence: When Katie was duped into a blind date with Chad, she had a contingency plan in case he didn't turn out to be her Prince Charming. She had her friend call her with an amourgency call. Unfortunately, quick as this call came, it was not quick enough because her eyes watered from his overpowering body odor. Maybe it was just The Chad, but Katie scentsed that when he said Eureka! she'd say You Reek-a!
Etymology: Amour (French for Love) & Emergency (a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action)
Ringormorsos
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ring/or/mors/us
Sentence: Since Julie wasn't sure if she could let her phone ring or simply vibrate during the date she pleaded with her friend to ringormorsos her so she could make her escape if necessary.
Etymology: ring + morse (as in morse code) + SOS + take on rigor mortis
Callvalry
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: call-var-ee
Sentence: Jen sent the callvalry to Anne just in time to rescue her from her blind date with the loser from the mailroom by pretending to be her sick grandmother.
Etymology: Wordplay on Calvalry. In old Western movies, the heroine was often rescued from peril in the nick of time by the calvalry coming over the hill to shoot or frighten away the bad guys.
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COMMENTS:
Good one...I wonder if they really played the trumpet as they rode into battle the way they do in the movies? I mean can you hold a horn and steer a horse at the same time? Probably no different than driving and talking on a cell... - Nosila, 2009-07-09: 11:07:00
clever - Jabberwocky, 2009-07-09: 13:12:00
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Punctumate
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: PUNCTUate+MATE
Sentence: He sounded fine on the internet, but please punctumate me in an hour, just in case.
Etymology: PUNCTUate+MATE
Amourgency
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: a mur jen cee
Sentence: When Violet had prearranged to have her friend Brenda call her ten minutes after her blind date started, she had no idea it would be such an amourgency...her date smelled, was possessive and creepy!
Etymology: Amour (French for Love) & Emergency (crisis situation)
Telibi
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: TEL-uh-bahy
Sentence: Bob didn't smell a rat, when Roxie's phone rang and she told him that she had to break their date and leave immediately, in order to return to her post at the local hospital and care for a patient suffering from bromhidrosis. It was a clever telibi, hatched together with her girlfriend, in case of an emergency, for in the end all they finished up doing was going to a theatre and watching "Lord of the Rings."
Etymology: Blend of TEL of telephone & LIBI of alibi, with a homophonic suggestion of bi, bi of goodbye. Alibi: an excuse, esp. to avoid blame or to use to find one's way out of trouble, work etc.
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COMMENTS:
Excellent verboticism...covers the definition very nicely. - Mustang, 2008-05-28: 06:30:00
Roxie must have been the Ringleader...good word! - Nosila, 2008-05-28: 08:27:00
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-28: 10:18:00
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Araccknophonya
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Arr - accck! - na - fon - ya
Sentence: When her blind date, Delbert, showed up looking like some kind of insect, Phoebe had a major case of araccknaphonya and hovered near the phone awaiting a phonus interruptus call from her friend, Alberta offering an escape 'clause'
Etymology: Blend of arachnophobia, Acck! and phone.
Celltingency
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: cell/tin/gen/see
Sentence: Jenny always arranged with Marsha a celltingcy escape on all her first dates with the latest. Marsha was to call precisely thirty minutes after the arranged meeting time to give Jenny an emergency involving my best friend, in case the guy was another loser, or mental case.
Etymology: cell + contingency (conditional on something uncertain)
Callrescyou
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: call res cue
Sentence: Deana and her close friend Diana arranged for Diana’s callrescyou if her blind date was a disasster. Diana’s signal that the date required intervention was simply to say ‘HELLo’ instead of ‘hi’.
Etymology: From CALL and RESCUE and YOU.
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COMMENTS:
Your callrescyou is important to us... - Nosila, 2009-07-09: 11:08:00
thanks for your immediate response, but please hold the line... - splendiction, 2009-07-09: 11:10:00
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Amourgency
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: a moor jen see
Sentence: When Penelope arranged to meet her blind date, Pierre, at Le Cafe Bistro, she was very glad that she had arranged an amourgency call with her best friend Brigitte. Brigitte was to call ten minutes into their meeting and Penelope could use the opportunity to abort the mission if her date disappointed. The foul aroma which permeated Pierre and his clothing made that ten minutes seem like an eternity. Luckily she was saved by the bell and escaped from Pepe LePew just in time...eyes watering, breath held, gorge rising...need to throw away clothes and scrub down quickly...eewwww!
Etymology: Amour (French word for "love"... an intense feeling of affection;a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship) & Emergency (a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action)
Catrastrophoney
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kuh-tas-truh-foh-nee
Sentence: Joan was not at all sure about going out on a date with a guy she met through an online dating service. Even though one of her girlfriends swore by it, Bubba's Buds didn't feel quite right to her so she arranged for June to give her a catastrophoney call just to be safe.
Etymology: catastrophe (a sudden and widespread disaster) + phone (telephone) + phoney (not genuine; fake )
Cellafeign
Created by: focusteacher
Pronunciation: cell uh feyn
Sentence: Marsha, please remember to cellafeign at 8:00 and we'll see if I need it.
Etymology: From the Modern American cell, indicating a phone area since 1977, and the Old French feindre meaning to pretend, represent, imitate or shirk.
Comments:
Verbotomy - 2008-05-28: 00:00:01
Today's definition was suggested by doseydotes. Thank you doseydotes. ~ James
Verbotomy - 2009-07-09: 00:02:00
Today's definition was suggested by doseydotes. Thank you doseydotes. ~ James