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DEFINITION: v. To feel stressed and anxious and when your mobile phone runs out of battery power, drops its network connection, or in the worst case, gets misplaced and lost. n. A panic attack caused by an interruption in your mobile phone service.
Verboticisms
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Cellohpain
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: sell-oh-pane
Sentence: Passing through the cellyouvoid tunnel, Sue's cellohpain was plainly written on the furrowed lines of her face.
Etymology: cell (phone), oh, pain
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-03: 13:01:00
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Tunamobphobia
Created by: valevans
Pronunciation: ton-a-mo-bee-fo-bee-a
Sentence: Sally suffered from tunamobphobia when she was on a train about to go into a tunnel
Etymology: mob-move phobia-fear
Cellxiety
Created by: Lauren19
Pronunciation: cell-ex-ziedy
Sentence: The woman has major cellxiety and couldn't let anything happen to her phone. She could not part from it.
Etymology: cell- mobile device exiety- to keep at all times.
Phonozmiac
Created by: Gidaio
Pronunciation: fon-oz-me-ak
Sentence: The phonozmiac screamed, "Stop the train!!"
Etymology: I dunno. Just something that sounded cool. I guess "phone" + "phobiac."
Deringed
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: dee - ring - d
Sentence: Cindy became positively deringed when her cell phone lost power during the thunderstorm.
Etymology: deranged, ring (as in phone call)
Cellphobiainterruptis
Created by: thebaron
Pronunciation: cell phobia inter rupt is
Sentence: Suddenly, she launched into a severe case of cellphobiainterruptis, while on the train!
Etymology: Latin- phobia -fear interruptis- Latin sudden attack
Exomund
Created by: beardo
Pronunciation: As its spelled... Ex-o-mund
Sentence: I have been Exomunded ever since the satilite fell out of the sky.
Etymology: Exo-, outside -mund, world
Discellusionment
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: dis/sell/oo/shun/ment
Sentence: Cathy froze in a state of complete discellusionment when her cellphone disconnected. The experience was so shocking that she remained cellibate forever after.
Etymology: disillusionment + cell + lose
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COMMENTS:
Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-04: 04:54:00
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Anite
Created by: Mclovin
Pronunciation: an.iht.
Sentence: i have anite. :)
Etymology: an-without ite-one connection too.
Impossaphone
Created by: Jessalynne
Pronunciation: im-pass-a-fone
Sentence: Kathy's friend treated her impossaphone by limitting her texting and calling at night.
Etymology: noun-to be unable to live without your phone or cell phone/service
Comments:
stache - 2008-04-03: 01:35:00
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stache - 2008-04-03: 01:37:00
to whom is credit for the definition owed, james?
Ah... Actually I made it up! Cheers ~ James
stache - 2008-04-03: 18:47:00
way to go.
holy smokes, half the universe gave a verboticism