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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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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)
Appattack
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ap-ah-tak
Sentence: When her Iphone failed for reasons beyond her ability to discern, Muriel had a major appattack from losing her connection to Facebook, GPS and other services.
Etymology: Blend of 'app' (software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks) and 'attack' (a period of being strongly affected by something (as a desire or mood)
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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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
Blackberror
Created by: TimTheEnchanter
Pronunciation: BLACK-bare-er
Sentence: It wasn't bad enough that Gwen was running late for the meeting, but all hell broke loose when she suffered another BlackBerror and wasn't able to find out that the location had changed.
Etymology: BlackBerry + Error
Ipanic
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: eye-panic
Sentence: Demetri began to iPanic as the power bled dry from his iPhone in the middle of an Angry Birds battle.
Etymology: i - apple prefix for everything; panic - to panic
Cellphobia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: sell-FO-bya
Sentence: Celine would suffer bouts of debilitating cellphobia whenever her cell phone service suffered even a momentary outage and as often as not she'd shriek or make other kinds of noises that gave those around her great concern.
Etymology: Blend of 'cell' (short name for cell phone) and 'phobia' (irrational fear)
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COMMENTS:
She needs to get weaned off cells gradually with some cell-you-light! Good Word. - Nosila, 2009-05-22: 11:54:00
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Breakupphobia
Created by: LARRYHOOVER
Pronunciation: brak-ahup-fo-be-ah
Sentence: i have breakuphobia with my women when were on the phone and i have bad service (Verizon :p) #attalltheway
Etymology: breakup-self explanatory phobia-scared
Cellanxious
Created by: queenjane75
Pronunciation: Sell-aink-shus
Sentence: Some neighbors figured Martha had been cheating on Ed, but really it was her cellanxious dependency to stay within a wireless service area that inspired him to leave her for good and head up to the mountains on a permanent hunting trip. He didn't feel like he was abandoning her as he packed up the jeep; he could see her through the dirty windows, talking on her damn cell phone.
Etymology: Cell+anxious
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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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