DEFINITION: v. To feel stressed and anxious and when your mobile phone runs out of battery power, drops its network connection, or in the worst case, gets misplaced and lost. n. A panic attack caused by an interruption in your mobile phone service.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Cellulardysfunction: /sel-U-lar-dis-func-tion/ Jill’s bars suddenly dropped to zero as they approached the tunnel. Jill started to shake and sweat. She suffers from cellulardysfunction and the thought of “no phone service” makes her blood pressure soar. Etymology: cellular/dysfunction Created by: toadstool57.
Roamophobe: /Rohm-ah-fobe/ Bruce, with his pink Razr phone and its several Hello Kitty charms attached, would openly weep in roamophobic terror when the bus would enter the Lincoln Tunnel. How was he supposed to watch reruns of Project Runway with no bars? Etymology: roam – use of a cell phone outside of one’s calling area, phobe – person who has a particular phobia Created by: Banky.
Comments on Roamophobe:
Jabberwocky, 2008-04-03: 10:58:00
very funny sentence
Discellusionment: /dis-sell-oo-shun-ment/ Cathy froze in a state of complete discellusionment when her cellphone disconnected. The experience was so shocking that she remained cellibate forever after. Etymology: disillusionment + cell + lose Created by: Jabberwocky.
Comments on Discellusionment:
OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-04: 04:54:00
Great word.
Nophonobia: /no-fn-obia
the accent is on OBIA. fn is barely pronounced/ Despite Lana’s nophonobia, ironically, she’s always one to lose her phone or accidentally destroy it in odd ways like when she dropped it in her water at Pei Wei as she passed it to Zack. Etymology: no + phone + phobia (an intense, abnormal, or illogical fear of a specified thing) Created by: diyan627.
Comments on Nophonobia:
Mustang, 2008-04-03: 18:59:00
Great word!
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James
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Definition Comments:
stache – 2008-04-03: 01:35:00
?stache – 2008-04-03: 01:37:00
to whom is credit for the definition owed, james?Verbotomy – 2008-04-03: 07:55:00
Ah… Actually I made it up! Cheers ~ Jamesstache – 2008-04-03: 18:47:00
way to go.