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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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Ipotunism
Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts
Pronunciation: "eye-poe-tune-is-im"
Sentence: I find my personal zen in the practice of ipotunism.
Etymology: from IPod, Tune and the buddhist "ism"
Emodiate
Created by: ScyldScefing
Pronunciation: /imO:djEIt/ (EI is dypthong)
Sentence: The street was so noisy, and all that people... lucky I had my Ipod so I could emodiate through it all the way home
Etymology: "emo", root taken from both "emotion" and also "emote", or show emotion through audiovisual means or signs, such as "smileys". "dia" as termination for "multimedia", referring to what you can hear or see in the "ipod". "-te" as verb ending.
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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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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Inthezone
Created by: Flamechick911
Pronunciation: In-the-zone
Sentence: Later on they told me she'd been screaming my name for an hour, but I can't help it if I'm inthezone.
Etymology: from zoning out
I-thistic
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: Ithistic
Sentence: Often an autist is recognised ad its I-thistic earphones.
Etymology: from autism
Poddybraining
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: pod-ee-brain-ing
Sentence: You could always tell when Bob's wife had been nagging, as you'd find him poddybraining afterwards.
Etymology: ipod, brain
Narcissipodism
Created by: adobrodt
Pronunciation: NAR-si-SIP-aw-dism
Sentence: Jenny's rampant narcissipodism caused her to miss all of Thanksgiving dinner.
Etymology: From narcissism and IPOD.
Oblivivapoding
Created by: highwireart
Pronunciation: O-bli-va-pod-ing
Sentence: The spreadsheet was due by the end of the day and oblivapoding was the only way it was going to get done.
Etymology: Oblivious=The only existance is you and your world. Viva=To live IPod=Preserves sanity in a cubicle office environment
Iblissfulignorance
Created by: schleppo
Pronunciation: eye-bliss-full-ig-nor-ants
Sentence: Sally is in a state of iblissfulignorance
Etymology:
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