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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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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)
Ituned
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ītoōnd
Sentence: Joyce is completely iTuned. If anything does not effect her directly or is not about her, she isn\\\'t interested. If any of her few friends try to tell her about their lives, she just iTunes them out. She refuses to use FaceBook because postings by others show up there and wastes her time. She preferrs to Tweet even though she has trouble understanding why more people haven\'t subscribed to her account.
Etymology: I (pronoun: first person singular) + tuned (adjust a receiver circuit such as a radio or television to the frequency of the required signal) + itunes (iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files)
Meetime
Created by: kaprikornbabe
Pronunciation: mee-time
Sentence: huh? i'm sorry i don't believe i was paying attention, for i was indulging in some MEETIME.
Etymology:
Dinsulate
Created by: durananrananran
Pronunciation: Din-SOO-late
Sentence: So she could focus on her yoga, Jane dinsulated herself from the traffic accident outside with a bit of Bon Jovi. Jane never joins in the conversation, she's always dinsulating.
Etymology: portmanteau of din and insulate
Apathedonize
Created by: danboaz
Pronunciation: ap-aw-thi-DO-NIZ
Sentence: Any time the world gets to be too much, she apathedonizes through her diregard for what goes on around her by focusing on her own pleasure and favorite tunes
Etymology: apathy + hedonist
Ignoiser
Created by: Hjason
Pronunciation: ig-noi-ser
Sentence: They are such an ignoiser that unless we are talking about how wonderful they are, they simply ignoise us.
Etymology: ignore+noise+poser
Dittydunce
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: dittie-dunce
Sentence: She was acused of being a dittydunce when her tone-deaf humming made all the neighbourhood dogs run for cover.
Etymology: ditty (song, tune) + dunce (idiot, simpleton)
Narcisstatistic
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nar sis stat tis tik
Sentence: No wonder there are so many distracted driving laws and lawsuits against people too stupid to concentrate on what they are doing and act safely. Take Penny, who merrily walked into the path of a car on the street, oblivious due to her wearing her earpads, listening to fluffy pop music. The driver of the car lost control to avoid her, flipped over and went to Heaven. Penny herself narrowly avoided becoming another narcisstatistic and still doesn't know it!
Etymology: Narcississtic (characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance) & Statistic (a datum that can be represented numerically)
Obmusicate
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: Verb: ob-mUs-i-kait Noun: ob-mUs-i-kuht
Sentence: Verb: Travellers on the London Underground frequently obmusicate. Noun: (Usually teenager) "Please turn off your music at the dinner table - you're such an obmusicate".
Etymology: From 'ob' (against).
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