Handango’s Word of the Week Contest
October 9, 2005 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under The Unwired Life, Unwired Oddities
Holy cow, Handango has been sponsoring a contest that’s meant to build an online dictionary of the mobile lifestyle we all live day by day. When you read some of these words, you’ll realize that we’re all part of the same sphere of technology, especially with phones.
Here are some samples:
Bricktastic: brick·tast·ic adj. (1) Describes the huge brick that is sometimes a device; often confused for a blackboard eraser. (2) Refers to old school convergence devices that require a special hip pack to carry it around.
Flirtxt: flir·txt v. To send playful and/or romantic overtures by way of text messaging.
Phonifobia: phon·i·fob·ia n. Abnormal fear of being without one’s cell phone or other mobile device for any period of time.
Flip Happy: flip hap·py adj. Achieving state of calm via the repeated opening and shutting of one’s clam-shell design cell phone.
Phonnoying: phon·noy·ing adj. Causing irritation through loud talking on a cell phone in public. See also, Mobinoxious.
Nodjust: nod·just v. To attempt to improve cellular reception during a call by turning one’s head incrementally and systematically.
I made my own:
Contactbulate: khon·tak·yu·leyht v. To accidentally send an SMS to someone’s home phone or fax number because of a wrong key press in selecting the contact’s desired field.
Haha! So what’s your mobile lifestyle?
Check out the contest at Handango
