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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.
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Noblivious
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nob liv ee us
Sentence: Isadora was noblivious when she zoned in on her music and dialed away the world. She missed seeing so many accidents that she caused due to her inattention.
Etymology: Nob (variant spelling of KNOB,a button on a dial to adjust sound on a radio) & Oblivious (failing to keep in mind)
Musicape
Created by: lebeast
Pronunciation: muse-i-cape
Sentence: I live to musicape
Etymology: music+escape
Obsessebrate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: obb-SESS-eh-brayt
Sentence: Melanie is a totally self absorbed person who will ignore the needs or feelings of others and her worst annoying habit it obsessebrating when her favorite tunes are playing and will have the volume turned as high as it will go.
Etymology: Blend of 'obsessed' (To preoccupy the mind of excessively) and 'celebrate' (publicly acknowledge (a significant or happy day or event) with a social gathering or enjoyable activity)
Knoblivion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nob liv ee yon
Sentence: When Olivia hit the volume button on her ipod, she managed to enter her own little world, unaware of anything around her. She created a world of knoblivion, where nothing else existed but her. It was during this state of knoblivion that she failed to notice the red sports car that barely missed her and had to swerve into a big tree, flipping over the vehicle and trapping the driver. Calamities to others followed her until one day, she ignored the warning bells and the 4:15 downtown bus punched her ticket permanently.
Etymology: Knob (dial;button that controls volume) & Oblivion (forgetfulness;a state of being unaware)
Egonore
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: E-go-nor
Sentence: While the clerk was robbed, I egonored her while listening to the new song from Justin Timberlake.
Etymology: Ego - an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others Ignore - to refrain from noticing or recognizing
Iselfpodsessed
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: i - sellf - pod - sessed
Sentence: Julia became iselfpodsessed the very day she purchased her new ipod. Her new joy in life was to "plug-in" and tune out to the world around her. It enabled her to escape all worries, responsibilities and concern for other people. She now focused on what was important, her own musical happiness.
Etymology: ipod, self-possessed (having control of one's emotions or behaviour)
Myopera
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: My-op-er-ah
Sentence: Maria's myopera did not mean she needed to wear her headphones ALL the time, no, it was just whenever she was awake.
Etymology: Rythmic fusion of 1) Myopia - condition commonly referred to as shortsightedness (which is quite a long word) and 2)Opera - musical which is very small (or far away) and requires the audience to use binoculars in order to see the players on the stage.
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COMMENTS:
Based on myopia? - artr, 2009-08-06: 11:11:00
Diva-licious word!!! Does this mean the Presbyopera means when you sing in a Protestant Church??? - Nosila, 2009-08-07: 22:29:00
Presbyopera, some kinda weird Elvis convention, probably would've could've should've been the subject of a Fr Ted Christmas special. - scrabbelicious, 2009-08-08: 09:43:00
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Emptyme
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: empty-me
Sentence: Joy would plug into her Emptyme Player to tune out everything but what she wanted to hear. She was so shallow that, even when she wrecked her dad's new car with her boyfriend in it, the paramedics found her sitting on the curb singing along to "Oops I did it again" by Brittany Spears while her boyfriend moaned in pain in the front seat.
Etymology: empty+me -- wordplay on MP3 player
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COMMENTS:
Emptymology is perfect! - Nosila, 2009-08-07: 22:22:00
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Podaway
Created by: Adamson
Pronunciation: pod-a-way
Sentence: A nuke, no prob man, I'll just podaway from that sheed !
Etymology: Pod (iPod)+away
Escapod
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ess-cayp-odd
Sentence: as her parents started fighting in the front seat, she decided to escapod for the rest of the journey
Etymology: escape, ipod
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