DEFINITION: v. To instinctively answer your cell phone ring, even when caught in a somewhat compromising position. n. The instinct to answer your phone
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Ringstinct: /ring-stinked/ Honey, please try to fight your ringstinct in future. Or, you know, wait a few minutes. Etymology: Ring (of phone) + Instinct = Ringstinct Created by: Rhyme79.
Comments on Ringstinct:
Discoveria, 2012-09-14: 07:29:00
I thought about this exact word but decided against, still it gets my vote 🙂
Communipulsion: /kuh-myoo-ni-puhl-shuhn/ The minister thought he must have really hit a nerve with his sermon when one of his parishioners jumped up with a shout and ran out of the church on Sunday. His ego was slightly deflated when he later learned that the member of his congregation had been a struck by communipulsion – a vibrating cell phone in her pocket and not his masterful words. Etymology: communication (a strong, usually irresistible impulse to perform an act) + compulsion (something imparted, interchanged, or transmitted) Created by: artr.
Ringclination: /Ring-klihn-ay-shun/ Dorothy’s ringclination was so powerful that not even being in bed with her best friend Jemma’s husband could stop her answering the call – even with it being Jemma on the line. Etymology: RING – to call someone up by telephone.
INCLINATION – the predisposition to do something.
Created by: Kirubeza.
Pickupulsion: /pik-uh-PUL-shun/ The stark echo confirms that Jane’s pickupulsion extended even to the loo. Etymology: archaic 20th cent Eng. v. to answer a ringing phone; to lift or pick up the receiver in order to respond to a phone call; + [comp]ulsion: loss of choice or control in a personal decision, usually as a result of obsession Created by: lwoodsky.
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