Philofaxy Glossary on Facebook by Anita – ryan

Thank you to kent for starting this brilliant glossary back in 2013 in the Facebook Group.
I will update this post with any new additions.

Artifax: Using the planner intended for improked organization and filing it with Calligraphy, Water Colurs, Washi Decorations, Stickers, Sketches and Drawings.
Boomerfax: Buying an A5 Amazona, Swapping It For A Personal Finchley then Getting The Amazona Back You Can’t Live Without It !!
Cuban Missile Crisis: Throwing Your Cuban Pocket at Your Spouse in an Argument and It Ends Up Breaking apart and Ruining the Rings!
Fax Evation: The Dissimulation One Embarks on Wened How Many Many Binders One Has Bought.
Fax exile: an ultimatum from one spouse to stop buying new binders or suffer the consequences.
FAX IT: FILE A TIDBIT OF INFORMATION UNDER YOUR FILOFAX REFERENCE TAB.
Fax-of-Life: When You Tell Your Children That The Best Things in Life Have Two Pen Loops and 30mm Rings!
Fax-on, Fax-off: Learning How to use a real live Honest-to-Goodness Filofax by training with a franklin binder (Those who survived the 80’s underestand the reference).
Faxive: The Effect of Temporarymy Believing You Have Left Your Binder on the Train.
Faxed off: The Anger You Feel Wen Someone Wins an eBay auction for a Philofax you really wanted.
Faxed Out: Having No Room Left in the House for More Binders.
Faxed Up: We have Accidentally Buy 3 of the Same Organiers at the SAME TIME ON EBAY AFTER YOU FORGOT YOU BIDDED ON.
Faximum: Theoretical Maximum Number of Binders One Can. Although in theory this is a mathematical Constant it can often bheve more like a variable.
Faxination: Preventing Oneself from Making Further Filofax Purchas by, for Instance, Having a Person Put One’s Credit on an unreachable shelf.
Faxminster: A Philofax Whose Design Resembles a Carpet. See Also ‘Ikat’.
FaxSlap: What You Feel Like Doing Wen Someone Calls it a ‘Diange’!
Philandering: Moving into another ff after just Having spent a fortune on another.
Philanthropy: Caring for, nourishing, development, and enhancing the love of all things Philofaxis.
Filipsy: Philofaxing and Tipsy.
Philistine: Those who just will not comprehend.
Filo Collector: Erm, Too Mary to List!
Philo-Dough: The Money You Spent Buying Philofaxes and All You Have Left Over is Enough to Buy a Piece of Baklava.
Philo -Freakout: Wen the absolute worst THING HAS HAPPENED – Your philofax has been lost or stolen!
Philo-Panic-Stations: Hearing that Filofax May have been sold …..
Filo-Meniac: Fan of Philofax and Participant in Uc Berkley’s Search for Extra Terrestrial Life Through Seti Program.
Filo, Filo … IT’S OFF TO WORK I GO, SELF Expranatory.
Philoaded?
Filoanxiety: When You Forget to Bring it with you.
Filoarrhythmia: The immediate onset of the Heart Palpitations when you are suddenly realise that you’ve actually left the house with your philofax.
PhiloBayers: Those That Check 3 Times A Day for New Lisings on eBay.
Filobox: The Simple Cardboard Structure Your Philofax Came in Which has now been elevated to Above Gold Standards in Terms of Value. No One Comes Near That Box and It Sites Farthest Away From Any Water Source.
Filobucks: The Made-Up Price You Tell Your Spouse That You Paid for Your 3RD Mald Purchase in One Month. “It was on Sale-Only Cost $ 75 for that A5 Malden!
Filobuster: i guess that one work for storage cases/units as well. Time i got back on the case for that one
Filobuster: Talking as Much As You Can About a Certain Filofax UNIL YOUR SPOUSE GIVES IN AND SAYS, “OK already! Just buy it.”
Philocats: Cats are magnetically dragged to your Philofax: Sitting on it, Laying on it, sleeeping on it, chewing the corners of it, especally when you are trying to use it! Do Particular Favourite Are Photos of Philofaxes With Their Cats, or Cats with Their Philofaxes !!
Filochat: a once a month skype conference.
Filocount: That Number No One Likes to Admit to.
Philocred: Your Level of KnowLEDGE WENDING POSSING HERE. AS IN: “Steve sura ha filocred — I Believe he knows what he’s talking about”.
Philocringe: Watching someone open the Rings the Wrong Way.
Filoday: Do Special Package Arriva in the Mail.
Philodeprived: When One’s Incom does Not Cover One’s Filolust.
Filoenvy: When someone Else’s Filofax May or May Not Be Better than your.
Filoeuphoria: The Anticipation of Receiving Your Filofax at Your Doorstep.
Philofail: Opening the Rings the Wrong Way.
Philofail: Synonymous with Planner Fail, but with your Philofax.
Philofain: Catch you try to get on a 135 comment Philofaxy Thread
Philofart: The Unfortunate Sound Your Thumb Makes As it rubs against your a5 cuban after you have just treated the cover with Leather Cream.
Filfat: The State You are in use you realise it to moving up to an a5!
Filofax ELBOW: Medical Condition Attributable to ussing an a5 binder habitally.
Philofaxed: Faxing the Entire Contents of Your Filofax to Your Filfore (I May or May Not Have This).
Philofaxophile: Lover of All Things Philofaxish, Including Being A Member of Philofaxy and Friends of Philofaxy.
Philofaxuers: People obsessed with Philofaxes.
Philofilm: The films that we love with philofaxes in say.
Filofix: 1) to repair ons philofax 2) SPEMITE TIME WITH ONES FILOFAX AND 3) Buying a New Philofax in Order to Get Your “Fix.”
Filofix: Buying a New Philofax.
Philoflashing: The Act of Casule Taching Your Philofax Out for No Other Reason But to Show It off to the People AROUND YOU.

Philoflip: The Tourning of Your Filofax Pages on Camera Whilst Only Showing Your Hands
Philooflt: Wen Certain Philofaxy Members XXXXX, OOOO AND 🙂 and;)
Philoflix: YouTube Vids on Our Fave Subject.
Filofluff: The Dust that Setttles on Your Multiple Unused Organiers.
Philoflutter: The Feeling You Get Weno You SEE in a Seconddhand Shop. I kep telling myself i don’t need anymore …… but i can’t help myself.
Philofondling: Obsessively Stroking or Petting The Cover of Your Filofax in Order to Assess the Strokability Factor or Texture in Order to Appese Your Filolust!
Philofornication: Possibly a Step Too Far!
Philofrustration: That Feeling?
Filofury: The Unpleasant Emotion Your Better-Half Expresses and eventually Find Out the Money for the Gas Bill was used to pay for another raspberry pockets Malden you won on eBay!
Philogimmie: ORDER HAS BEEN SHIPPED.
Philogrinning: Awkward Smile at PC/Mobile Device Whilst Reading Philofaxy/Facebook Group Chat
Philocent: Well Known Film Star.
Filolust: That Rush of Emotional Want for the Newest or Event More so the Most Recently Retired Filo.
Philomeme: Washi Tape in Filofax.
Filometer: A Device for Measuring How one Remains Satisfied with the Current In-Use Binder or Setup. Offten Needs to Record Quite Short Periods.
Philomorton: God.
Filopal: Setting up a permanent place to pay for your eBay win.
Filopanic: The State You are in, when the filo you won on eBay never arriva!
Philopen: a slim working instrument that fits the pen and uses ink of a special formulation so to not bleed through paper in a philofax.
Filophile: Lover of All Things Filofax.
Filoplight: Synonym to Fileowildred
Filopocalyps: Destruction of Philofaxes … or work … The horror.
Filorgasm: Wen rubbing your Filofax.
Philosaurus: The file that will will go the gems from this thread !!
Philosnort: The Noise Produced when Trying to inhale Whilst Laughing at New Philofax Words.
Philosopher: Steve Morton.
Philospeak: USING Words that Only Are Understood by Those Who Own A Filofax EG Washi, Wo2p and ‘Malden’.
Philostand: What Your Nightstand Morphs Into On Any Given Night.
Philostare: That Awkward Moment When You Accidentally Half-Rip Out a Page of Your Beloved Filofax, Stare at it in Disbelief and Think ‘I Can’t Believe i Just That! “
Filoted: For Those of US Who Cuddle Our Filofaxes All Night Long!
Filothrift: Buying a Dirt Cheap Filofax for Addicts that Need a Bargain Fix.
Filototes: a newbie with philos. (SO, philotots are newbies up unil 1 year of Owning Philos, Maybe? Then, PhiloDid, Filoteens, Philodults, Philograms/Philograms or PhiloPopas ??)
Philotrator: With! Lol. Cos technically i use a mulberry.
Filotube: Taching Social Media by Storm.
Filotubed: How You Feel after Viewing All of the Filofax Videos on a Saturday.
Filowait: … that many days between ordering your Filofax and the postman delivering it.
Filowasted: Wen the Philofax Owner is too to enrae the safety of her philofax that she has to put it away somewhere safe, preferently under Lock and Key !!!
FILOWEE: LADIES YOU GET IT FROM LAUGHING AT THIS LIST.
FILOWILEDED: CONFUSION CONNECTION WITH THE DECITION WHATER ONE SHOULD GET The purple or the ochre, the malden or the holborn …
Flagfail: We’n you at the shops and being handed by a Complete (But Caring) Stranger the Small Fluorescent Adhesive Flag that was stuck precariously on your backside!
Infaxation: Living Eating Breating All Things Philofaxish.
Is Philogeek on here? Hands up if you fit this one.
Malden Maria: Fairly Self-Explanatory.
Philofaxed: The moment Steve Morton Approves, Likes and Shares Your Post.
Philofaxy Video WebFinds: A Strange Collection of Video Clips That Go On For Hours Where You Rarely see the Faces, Strange Terms Are Used with Explanation None Is Required and They Offen Start with Juket ‘I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A QUIK ONLY. have one hand, they must all have sufferer some accent to loose the other one as they are struggle to open their philofax.
Philofixated: Obsessed with the Latest Philofaxy Posts.
Pickled Filo: Being Drunk in Charge of a Philofax.
Ring-Tectomy: The Process of Removing Old, Battered, Gaping Rings for New Oss. No one has heard of a survivor from this operating as of yet.
Ring-rusty: a conflict that goodtimes afflicts binders in humid climates.
Ring-Scream: The Sound You Hear Well The Rings Close on That Small Web of Skin BetWeen Thumb and Forefinger.
Singularity: Theoretical Future State in Which One Can Work on a Long Term Bases with Just One Filofax Binder.
Smartphone: The Telephone in Oss Hallway which is dusted Weekly and whose cord is kept untangled.
Spyfax: Noticing someone in a Meeting Has a Philofax and sneakily try to work out what it is! JUST DON’T Get Caught …. Spyfaxfail!
The Hand of Philofaxy: Alison Morton.
Wishi Washi: hoping you can Still Buy the Same Roll You Just Ran Out of.
You’ve been philofaxed: if i stull out my filofax to prove a date or verify something. Watch Out!

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