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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.
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Ancellphobia
Created by: ThomasCannaday
Pronunciation: An-sell-foe-be-ah
Sentence: A lot of the teenage girls of the 21st century often suffer from Ancellphobia during school.
Etymology: An-Without Cell- Reference to a cell phone Phobia- Fear of
Ademophobia
Created by: Haydon
Pronunciation: A, Dem O, Phopia
Sentence: The fear of losing conention of others.
Etymology: A- without demo- people phobia- fear
Imservusphobia
Created by: moontopia
Pronunciation: im-ser-vus-fo-bee-a
Sentence: The crazy and wishing to be youthful woman was stricken with imservusphobia, when her cell phone made the undesirable beep when she was texting her 92-year old mom.
Etymology: im-not servus-sevice phobia-fear
Panicell
Created by: scarletzinc
Pronunciation: pah-nee-sayl
Sentence:
Etymology: Panic Cell
Mobilephobia
Created by: lindseyhamrick
Pronunciation: Mo-bull-pho-bia
Sentence: Anne went through mobilephobia for a week when she left her phone at her house when she went on vacation.
Etymology: Phobia- fear of
Nophonobia
Created by: diyan627
Pronunciation: no-fn-obia the accent is on OBIA. fn is barely pronounced
Sentence: Despite Lana's nophonobia, ironically, she's always one to lose her phone or accidentally destroy it in odd ways like when she dropped it in her water at Pei Wei as she passed it to Zack.
Etymology: no + phone + phobia (an intense, abnormal, or illogical fear of a specified thing)
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COMMENTS:
Great word! - Mustang, 2008-04-03: 18:59:00
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Phonecrashing
Created by: Suzanne112
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Your phone doesn't work, you can't help it. Your phone crashes, and you.
Etymology:
Loconnection
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: lo-co-neck-shun
Sentence: Debbie was having a peaceful morning until she realized that she forgot to charge her cell phone. She went into a fit of pure loconnection as she panicked over not being able to send texts or make calls for the 2 hours while it charged.
Etymology: loco - spanish for crazy + connection also it is pronounced as "low connection" which could also set off a wave of panic in the cellular dependent
Fatalmobia
Created by: ziggy
Pronunciation: fay-tal-mo-bia
Sentence: A panic arising from the threat of imminent disconnection whilst holding a conversation on your cell phone.
Etymology: fatal-dead mo-mobile bia-from phobia
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