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DEFINITION: v. To greet a person on the phone in rude or obnoxious manner, and then do your best to ignore, or talk over, whatever they say as the conversation continues. n. A person with atrocious phone manners.
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Telephant
Created by: catgrin
Pronunciation: tel-uh-fuhnt
Sentence: "Jane is such a telephant! I swear, once she gets on her cell her behaviour becomes telephaniccal, barking orders and screaming obscenities at some poor slob who doesn't even know who she is. Maybe she needs therapy?"
Etymology: telephone + elephant + tyrant
Lineswine
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: line-swine
Sentence: "WHO'S THIS?!?!?" barked the old lady over the phone. I immediately hung up. Not dealing with lineswine today.
Etymology: line (phone line) + swine (pig)
Telebarketer
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: tehl-uh-barrk-at-err
Sentence: Jolene was the perfect Customer Service Rep: she talked fast and loud, was completely deaf, and had years of experience as a Bill Collector, Meter Maid, and Telebarketer.
Etymology: bark at her, from telemarketer
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COMMENTS:
And she cxalls during dinner each night! - Nosila, 2009-06-02: 12:19:00
So THAT's who keeps calling. Good one! - Mustang, 2009-06-02: 21:00:00
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Phonetroll
Created by: phonesalad
Pronunciation: Phone-troll
Sentence: That guy was a real phonetroll.
Etymology: Phone + Troll
Rudemannersaddictivative
Created by: balku4
Pronunciation: roo-de-man-ner-sad-dic-tai-vey-tiv
Sentence: you're a rudemannersaddictivative
Etymology: look at the word and you will find out
Grembiseech
Created by: diyan627
Pronunciation: grem bi seeech
Sentence: My cell phone company has a whole lovely array of grembiseeches working for them. Works out really well for them and the way they put erroneous charges to my account that can never be resolved or even disputed properly because I can't actually carry on a decent conversation with any of them. Me thinks part of customer service training is a course on the art of being a grembiseech in order to make communicating with them as painful and inefficient as possible.
Etymology: greet + gremlin (adept at subverting or sabotaging mechanical systems) + Bit*% + beseech (to address or request earnestly)
Moodycall
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: moōdēkôl
Sentence: Ron and his girlfriend are not seeing eye to eye just now or any body part to corresponding body part for that matter. When he calls her on the yellphone, the hellphone, a bootycall quickly turns into a moodycall. What makes this even more ridiculous is that neither of them can remember what she is so mad about.
Etymology: moody (given to unpredictable changes of mood) + booty call (a sexual invitation or rendezvous)
Recepshunist
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ree sepp shun issst
Sentence: the recepshunist was off sick with a partial cold.....two cold shoulders
Etymology: receptionist shun
Agressevere
Created by: pieceof314
Pronunciation: uh gres uh veer
Sentence: You could just sense the sneer on the other end of the phone. The venom and anger of the agressevere completely trampled any notion that George had for complaining about the missing parts of the mail order kit he just received. When he tried to explain the problem, he was mocked and talked over. Eventually he gave up and threw the kit away.
Etymology: agressive + perservere/severe
Telegrater
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: tele/grate/ur
Sentence: A telegrater answers the phone and then cuts the listener to shreds.
Etymology: telephone + greeter + grater
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by stache. Thank you stache. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by stache. Thank you stache. ~ James
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