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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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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
Hipodnotism
Created by: lynx13
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: it is a word that contains the words "hypnotism" and "ipod" in one word
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)
Inarcisdissociate
Created by: bokashiman
Pronunciation: eye-nar-sis-dis-so-she-ate
Sentence:
Etymology: from narcissism - love of self and dissociation - zoning out
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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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.
Idore
Created by: mdschermer
Pronunciation: I-dore
Sentence: Only when I really pump it up, I can tune out all the ordinary people around me and truly iDore myself.
Etymology: iPod and to adore put together, with the "i" at the beginning also stressing the importance of the self.
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.
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
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