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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.
Verboticisms
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Ipodigy
Created by: vishalrix
Pronunciation:
Sentence: From the day she got her first ipod, her parents knew she was a ipodigy.
Etymology: ipod + prodigy
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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Ivoid
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ahy-void
Sentence: Mary loves her music. Once she sticks her earbuds in she can ivoid anything unpleasant or bothersome.
Etymology: i (from iPod/iPad) + avoid (to keep away from; keep clear of; shun)
Exteriorizing
Created by: soundbabyyy
Pronunciation: ex tear arise ing
Sentence: i am exteriorizing with my ipod
Etymology:
Igone
Created by: Wriiight
Pronunciation: Eye-Gawn
Sentence: Don't even try and talk to her, she's iGone.
Etymology: iPod + Gone
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)
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
Hitune
Created by: hairydoginparis
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I HiTuned my iPod until I couldn't hear the baby's screams.
Etymology: Hi-from high, like high volume iTune-from the music played on iPods
Musolate
Created by: Krixwell
Pronunciation: moos-o-layt
Sentence: Emma really loved to listen to music, taking refuge from problems, annoyances and real life in general, usually musolating herself from everything else.
Etymology: music + isolate (to seperate something from its surroundings, in this case usually oneself)
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COMMENTS:
Just for the record, I made this before I went to read the other verboticisms, so the similarity to the submission "musisolating" is coincidental. - Krixwell, 2013-09-11: 09:26:00
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Iptrovert
Created by: librarian
Pronunciation: ip'-tro-vert
Sentence: i was listening to my sister for a while but then just iptroverted because he was complaining about her friends.
Etymology: ipod + introvert
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