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DEFINITION: v. To instinctively answer your cell phone ring, even when caught in a somewhat compromising position. n. The instinct to answer your phone
Verboticisms
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Tigerror
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: tie gerr urrr
Sentence: One tigerror too many and he ended up looking like a car crash!
Etymology: tiger error
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COMMENTS:
"snigger" - galwaywegian, 2009-12-03: 06:52:00
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Pickall
Created by: logarithm
Pronunciation: pik-all
Sentence: My boss is looking for a natural PICKALL to replace the receptionist whom he has just fired because he caught her polishing her fingernails unperturbed by the ringing phone.
Etymology: Pick + all + call
Comproinstinctivringobsession
Created by: grasshopper
Pronunciation: compro-instinctive-ring-obsession
Sentence: I was diagnosed with comproinstinctivringobsession and all my phone were taken away at the intervention.
Etymology:
Helloto
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: hel - LOH - to
Sentence: Like a monster out of a horror movie, Jill's hand shot out of the shower and in a second, hellotoed her ringing cellphone.
Etymology: Hello [What is often said at the beginning of a call conversation] + Auto [automatic]
Blewcouth
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: bloo-kooth
Sentence: Sue knew that Bob was cellfish, but when he committed blewcouth in bed - that was the last straw.
Etymology: bluetooth, couth, whoops I "blew" it.
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COMMENTS:
Also the past tense of blow!... - petaj, 2007-05-18: 06:43:00
Blewcouth You saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a cell of my own (aha - now you've been Sinatra'd Purple) - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-18: 09:43:00
Verbitch. - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-18: 10:15:00
ouch!! I think verbich is verboten - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-18: 10:20:00
hehe! - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-18: 10:24:00
Bluecouth of Kentucky, keep on ringing,
Ring the one that's gone and left me blue.
- petaj, 2007-05-18: 19:59:00
Hey! Who declared it Pick on Purple week? I'm telling Verbmommy! I'm taking my toys and going home now... home, where my thought's escaping, home, where my music's playing, home, where my love lies waiting... ack! I just garfunkled myself. - toadstool57, 2007-05-19: 06:04:00
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Cellofanitis
Created by: shutz
Pronunciation: Cell-o-Fan-itis
Sentence: He knew her cellofanitis had reached the next level when she answered a call from her her husband as he was proposing to her.
Etymology: From "Cell" (cellular phone), "Fan" (short for fanatic) and "-itis", the common suffix that is used to denote an inflammation, irritation, or more generally, a negative medical condition.
Callflex
Created by: surfstang
Pronunciation: call/flex
Sentence: I was busy but callflex got the better of me and I answered the call.
Etymology: call + reflex
Autopilotmode
Created by: guesser
Pronunciation: auto-pilot-mode
Sentence: Despite her better judgement to leave the burning house, her brain, in autopilotmode, stopped to answer the phone on the way out the door!
Etymology:
Cellborg
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: sell/borg
Sentence: We are a society of cellborgs, rudely leaving a live face to face conversation to answer on the cue of a fashionable ringtone our cyber aquaintances.
Etymology: cell - (cell phone) + cyborg (a person whose physiological functioning is aided by, or dependent upon a mechanical, or electronic device)
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COMMENTS:
Good word. I too have joined the collective... - whipspeak, 2009-12-03: 18:46:00
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Phobsession
Created by: DaddiezGyrl
Pronunciation: fo-b-session
Sentence: It was his case of phobsession that made him answer the phone while they were making love.
Etymology: combo of phone+obsession
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by duchessella. Thank you duchessella! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by duchessella. Thank you duchessella. ~ James