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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.
Verboticisms
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Musolate
Created by: Krixwell
Pronunciation: moos-o-layt
Sentence: Emma really loved to listen to music, taking refuge from problems, annoyances and real life in general, usually musolating herself from everything else.
Etymology: music + isolate (to seperate something from its surroundings, in this case usually oneself)
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COMMENTS:
Just for the record, I made this before I went to read the other verboticisms, so the similarity to the submission "musisolating" is coincidental. - Krixwell, 2013-09-11: 09:26:00
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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)
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.
Hitune
Created by: hairydoginparis
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I HiTuned my iPod until I couldn't hear the baby's screams.
Etymology: Hi-from high, like high volume iTune-from the music played on iPods
Narcissipod
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: nahr/ses/i/pod
Sentence: Narcissipodding is the only time I can get away from it all and deal with ME!
Etymology: narcissistic + ipod
Allaboutme
Created by: bghicks
Pronunciation: all about me
Sentence: it's allaboutme!
Etymology: whatever
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.
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
Ipodicate
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I'm going to ipodicate, I may be sometime.
Etymology:
Oblivego
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: oh bliv eego
Sentence: Melody had shortened her name to MeMe and it suited her well. She could not pass a window or mirror without gazing adoringly at herself. It was always all about her. Until that day when she strapped on her i-pod and went running, dancing down the busy street oblivego to all else around her. Too bad the loud rendition of "I did it my way" prevented her from hearing that Greyhound Bus heading her way...oops!
Etymology: Oblivious (Unaware of anything else;forgetful;unmindful)& Ego (an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others;your consciousness of your own identity;vanity;self-importance)
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