Verboticisms

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: sell/borg

Sentence: We are a society of cellborgs, rudely leaving a live face to face conversation to answer on the cue of a fashionable ringtone our cyber aquaintances.

Etymology: cell - (cell phone) + cyborg  (a person whose physiological functioning is aided by, or dependent upon a mechanical, or electronic device)

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COMMENTS:

Good word. I too have joined the collective... - whipspeak, 2009-12-03: 18:46:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: nuu keee aaaaaaah

Sentence: His coitus was so regularly interrupted by the phone, he dubbed it his nookia

Etymology: nokia nookie

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: kuh-myoo-ni-puhl-shuhn

Sentence: The minister thought he must have really hit a nerve with his sermon when one of his parishioners jumped up with a shout and ran out of the church on Sunday. His ego was slightly deflated when he later learned that the member of his congregation had been a struck by communipulsion - a vibrating cell phone in her pocket and not his masterful words.

Etymology: communication (a strong, usually irresistible impulse to perform an act) + compulsion (something imparted, interchanged, or transmitted)

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Created by: BuenoCabra

Pronunciation: (AW-toh-spond)

Sentence: I hear my ring so often that whenever Beyonce's new song comes on the radio, I totally autospond.

Etymology: From "auto," short for automatic and "respond," meaning to react or answer.

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Created by: oren22

Pronunciation: ring as in ring stant- like in instant

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: SELL-eh-dik-shun

Sentence: Harold has what amounts to a celladdiction, an irresistible instinct to answer calls on his cell phone, no matter the time of day or activity he might be engaged in, even including romantic interludes.

Etymology: Blend of words 'cell' (for cell phone) and 'addiction' (n. the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming)

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: phone + pull + shun

Sentence: No matter I'm doing, I gotta answer it when it rings - it's a phonepulsion.

Etymology: phone + compulsion

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kal pul ay shun

Sentence: The scene was set. Soft music, candles, champagne, oysters, a luxurious hotel suite. They were passionately entwined. They barely knew each other, but they were well on their way to changing that. Just when things were getting very hot and heavy, she could not resist the callpulation. Her cell was singing out the message that always got her attention, "I'm so excited...". She could not resist and just had to answer. "Yeah, we'll be done in five, Rudy, where's my next trick?" At that point, her bedmate knew that although he ate a dozen oysters, only 6 of them were going to work tonight!

Etymology: Call (a telephone connection) & Pull (direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes) & Copulation (the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman)

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: ring-stinct

Sentence: Jill interrupted a passionate kiss as her ringstinct kicked in, fumbling for the phone, she tells her man to hold the thought and they can resume the kiss as soon as she gets off the phone.

Etymology: ring/instinct

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COMMENTS:

clever! - galwaywegian, 2007-05-18: 07:27:00

Jill should have read the ringstructions and set up her voicemail - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-18: 10:48:00

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Created by: angelheart

Pronunciation: Ring-an-no-play

Sentence: "Answer that and it's ringannoplay"

Etymology:

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