DEFINITION: v., To call your cellphone when you have misplaced it, hoping that it will ring so that you can locate it. n., The sound of a lost cellphone.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Cellabait: /sell a bate/ Hope was running out. Hope had to get to work at the Drag Club soon. But Hope could not find his cellphone. After much searching through the piles of clothes and costumes scattered around Hope’s house, Hope dialed the cellphone number on the house phone and Hallelujah, the cellabait cellabrations could begin when the weak but distinctive musical sound of Hope’s cellphone belting out “I’m just a girl who cayn’t say no” rang out joyously amid the heaps of lace and satin! Etymology: cell (cellular telephone) & abate (to reduce in intensity)& bait (to lure) & celibate (abstaining from sex by taking a vow) Created by: Nosila.
Cellicit: /cell-lis-it/ When Joe misplaces his phone, he cellicits it by relying on the cellhearular method of calling his own number and listening carefully for his personal and unique ring tone.
Etymology: CELLICIT – verb – from – CELL PHONE + ELICIT (to bring, draw out, or call forth)
Created by: Stevenson0.
Comments on Cellicit:
Jabberwocky, 2008-10-08: 10:10:00
great wordNosila, 2008-10-08: 20:33:00
Cellicit is also when telemarketers for phone companies call you at home, during dinner, every night!Mustang, 2008-10-09: 05:17:00
ExcellentOZZIEBOB, 2008-10-09: 17:03:00
Terrific
Lostone: /-lÉ”:stəʊn-/ Shh, shh, please, allow me to lostone my cell… Try to locate its lostone, can you hear it? Etymology: LOSTONE. From Lost (No longer in the possession, care, or control of someone or something) + Ringtone (A ringtone or ring tone is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming call) Created by: vmalcolm.
Tingalinquery: /TING-uh-LING-kweer-ee/ A teasing telenigma or tingalinquery taunted Bob with the usual “notingaling” when he tried to diallocate and phonepoint his cellphone.
Etymology: TING -A- lING: the sound of a phone & QUERY: a question; an inquiry. Created by: OZZIEBOB.
Comments on Tingalinquery:
Jabberwocky, 2008-10-08: 10:08:00
excellent!
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