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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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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).
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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Poditive
Created by: shieldspikes
Pronunciation: po-di-tive
Sentence:
Etymology: iPod+Positive
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COMMENTS:
- shieldspikes, 2006-12-26: 19:35:00
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Oblivipod
Created by: microwavedboy
Pronunciation: Ob-live-i-pod
Sentence: She didn't notice the traffic swarming around her - she was a complete oblivipod.
Etymology: Oblivious. Ipod.
Ipodulate
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: eye-pod-yoo-late
Sentence: Sometimes it helps to ipodulate and escape the trivialities and trials of life.
Etymology: Very obvious. From "ipod" and "isolate". Also note the "u" as a reference to the notion of making time for yourself.
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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Enpodden
Created by: llimllib
Pronunciation: En-`pod-en
Sentence: I yelled at John, but he'd already enpoddened himself.
Etymology: En = to enter pod = iPod den = action suffix
Hipodnotism
Created by: lynx13
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: it is a word that contains the words "hypnotism" and "ipod" in one word
Intunent
Created by: EonaFrae
Pronunciation: in-two-nent
Sentence: With the music blaring and her arms shaking, Rebecca's intunent energy was contagious.
Etymology: In [prefix: in, into] + Tune [a succession of musical sounds forming a melody] + Ent [suffix: full of]
Comments:
ituneout