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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.
Verboticisms
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Telemarketeerbasher
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: telly-market-ear-basher
Sentence: Tellymarketeerbashing had never been on Lilith's career plans, however her dominearing manner and the fact that she had no qualms about abusing complete strangers on the telephone led to her being head-hunted by the Insultancy firm to answer their calls. http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=insult
Etymology: telemarketer + ear bash
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COMMENTS:
love it! - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-16: 15:06:00
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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
Phonediva
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: phone+diva
Sentence: Watch out for her if you dial-in, she is such a phonediva, you may not ever get to speak.
Etymology: phone+diva
Operaver
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: OP-ehr-ayvr
Sentence: Lucinda hated her job as customer service operator and as each day wore on and she tired of handling so many complaints and insults she became an operaver, returning insults and making slurs of all sorts.
Etymology: Blend of operator and 'raver' (one who utters as if in madness)
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COMMENTS:
Good match to today's illustration. - artr, 2009-06-02: 06:57:00
clever! - mweinmann, 2009-06-02: 08:45:00
Raving good word - Nosila, 2009-06-02: 12:18:00
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Operantor
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Opp - uhr - RANT - er
Sentence: Hildegarde hated her job as a customer service representative and took every opportunity to respond with her mean mouth operantor persona.
Etymology: Blend of operator and ranter.
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COMMENTS:
great! - bookowl, 2008-04-16: 15:04:00
Clever angle — great word! - Tigger, 2008-04-16: 23:04:00
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Cellacious
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sel-ey-shuhs
Sentence: Judy thought it was the biggest joke to send out cellacious messages on hers and friends phones. Her little prank backfired on her when she accidentally left an obscene voicemail for the head of HR for the company she used to work for.
Etymology: cell (wireless phone) + salacious (obscene; grossly indecent)
Uncivilservant
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: un siv ill ser vant
Sentence: Rudi was aptly named. She was employed by the Dept. of Political Correctness and Fair Treatment. Unfortunately she had been a transferee from the Taxation Dept. so in fact, she was an uncivilservant. She snarled into telephones, was rude with co-workers and clients and apparently hated her job. The irony was that she had more Employee of the Month and Outstanding Customer Service Awards than anyone else in her department. Can you imagine what the rest of them were like???
Etymology: Uncivil (lacking civility or good manners) & Civil Servant (a public official who is a member of the civil service)
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COMMENTS:
"Rudi" - ha! - karenanne, 2010-06-24: 13:42:00
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Rudeceptionist
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Rood-sepshunist
Sentence: I swear that by the way the rudeceptionist spoke to me on the phone, she thought that I was some kind of simpleton!
Etymology: Rude (Impolite,unnecessarily curt) + Receptionist(Person that answers company calls and deals with Customer service enquiries
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COMMENTS:
Love it! - Tigger, 2008-04-16: 23:05:00
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Viletone
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: vial tone
Sentence: Helen worked at the Help Desk of her company's IT Dept. Hah, Helen thought,Help Desk was an oxymoron of a name for it. She went out of her way to ensure that Help Desk was an ironic choice of name. Whenever those moronic employees would call about their petty issues, she'd snidely say things like: "Is your computer plugged in? Did you turn it on yet? How can you be so stupid as to not know the terminology? Call us back when you get a clue!" She was always cutting people off, swearing at them and taking out her bad moods by being a viletone with the callers. Her co-workers cringed when she answered the phone and they felt pity for the poor slob on the other end of the line. That was until one day when she picked the wrong client to offend. After viletoning him for ten minutes, Helen was left speechless to find that she had bad-mouthed her boss. Bill Gates told her that she would never have to worry about hating her job again...
Etymology: vile (thoroughly unpleasant, morally reprehensible,nasty, offensive,despicable) & tone (the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people,the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli) & dial tone (sound given by telephone exchange to show line is clear to make a call)
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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