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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
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Cellinervosa
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: sell - eh - nerv - oh - sa
Sentence: Judy had a severe attack of cllinervosa when she realized that she had left her phone charger at home and her battery was almost run down. How would she live without live chat, mobile social apps, games and her tunes. These things were what allowed her to survive her workday.
Etymology: Cell (cell-phone) + Nervosa (a nervous disorder)
Hysterimissedcall
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: hiss/ter/i/mist/call
Sentence: Sally became hysterimissedcall when her cell phone broke down just as she was about to accept a once in a lifetime job offer.
Etymology: hysteria + missed call + hysterical
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COMMENTS:
Good one...nightmare scenario. Don't you think they should call it histeria when it's a guy and hersteria when it happens to a girl??? - Nosila, 2009-05-22: 12:00:00
clever! - libertybelle, 2009-05-22: 14:24:00
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Exomund
Created by: beardo
Pronunciation: As its spelled... Ex-o-mund
Sentence: I have been Exomunded ever since the satilite fell out of the sky.
Etymology: Exo-, outside -mund, world
Serviceinterruptus
Created by: Jamagra
Pronunciation: sur'/vis/in/tuh/rup'/tus
Sentence: Lucy became quite anxious whenever she was without cell phone cabability. What if her friends were trying to reach her? What if there were an emergency at home? How would she ever know the correct time?? Serviceinterruptus always left Lucy feeling lonely and unsatisfied.
Etymology: service - the supplier or supplying of commodities demanded by the public (water, gas, cell phone usage) + coitus interruptus - interruption of sexual intercourse
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COMMENTS:
Ha! I was gonna do callitusinterruptus. - purpleartichokes, 2008-04-03: 18:45:00
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Cellyoufrightus
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sell ewe freye tusss
Sentence: she had all the symptoms of cellyoufrightus, red face, hyperventilation, itchy finger and tunnel vision. They all cleared up once the train left the tunnel.
Etymology: cellulitus cell you fright us
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COMMENTS:
she should have remained cellyoubate! - Nosila, 2010-06-11: 11:55:00
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Tingalingxiety
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: tingaling-Zahy-i-tee.
Sentence: "Ring, ring, why don't you give me a call" abbamatically reperdittied inside Bob's tunestuck head. He had lost his mobile, and felt like he was in cellutary confinement. Exilophoned, he cried out, "How loud is the silence, doesn't it ever go away?" Orphoned, telereaved, he prayed that it hadn't fallen into the wrong hands. His pathetic dependence on it, together with his excessive texting and phoning, made him a chatatonic cliche, a stereotype of tingalingxiety.
Etymology: TINGALINNG: onomatopoeia for the sound of a phone & ANXIETY:troubled, uneasy, distressed.
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COMMENTS:
five bonus verboticisms, not counting the off-def ones. Amazing. You're a star. Pronunciation is a bit awkward, though. Is that what you really meant? - stache, 2008-04-03: 07:23:00
so many great words - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-03: 13:00:00
yes, that's what I thought. Better now (says your friendly pronuncidunce (Pro NUN suh dunce)). - stache, 2008-04-03: 18:41:00
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Anthrophobiaectoclaacu
Created by: roulouken331
Pronunciation: AnthrOE- Phobia- EctOE- ClAH- AHcu
Sentence: Her Anthrophobiaectoclaacu was so bad she had to live only where there was service from her cell phone company.
Etymology: Anthro- Human Phobia- Fear of Ecto- outside Cla- to break Acu- To hear
Mobilephobia
Created by: lindseyhamrick
Pronunciation: Mo-bull-pho-bia
Sentence: Anne went through mobilephobia for a week when she left her phone at her house when she went on vacation.
Etymology: Phobia- fear of
Cellphobiainterruptis
Created by: thebaron
Pronunciation: cell phobia inter rupt is
Sentence: Suddenly, she launched into a severe case of cellphobiainterruptis, while on the train!
Etymology: Latin- phobia -fear interruptis- Latin sudden attack
Deringed
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: dee - ring - d
Sentence: Cindy became positively deringed when her cell phone lost power during the thunderstorm.
Etymology: deranged, ring (as in phone call)
Comments:
stache - 2008-04-03: 01:35:00
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stache - 2008-04-03: 01:37:00
to whom is credit for the definition owed, james?
Ah... Actually I made it up! Cheers ~ James
stache - 2008-04-03: 18:47:00
way to go.
holy smokes, half the universe gave a verboticism