Verboticisms

Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Com-u-nic-ay-shun

Sentence: Joe drove his friends mad whenever he received a call on his cell phone, as he would always communicashun them and proceed to talk for ages to the person on the other end of the line. Eventually most of them started to take great exception to this and decided to 'disconnect' their friendship!

Etymology: Communication (to share or exchange information or ideas) Origin Latin communicare 'to share'. + Shun (avoid, ignore or reject)Origin Old English abhor. = Communicashun

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COMMENTS:

Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:13:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: self/sen/turd

Sentence: Jack was so cellphcentered that he had his cell phone surgically attached to his ear

Etymology: cell phone + self centered ( really implies cell phone centered)

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COMMENTS:

Like the "ph" in the middle! - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-05: 08:57:00

thanks Purple - I had actually thought of your word and was phrantically trying to come up with another - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-05: 14:43:00

I hate when that happens! Very phrustrating. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-05: 16:14:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: no key ass

Sentence: She sighed as she watched him fumble through the sheets in search of his phone. This was the last straw. He may have been humg like a stallion, but he acted like a complete nokiass

Etymology: nokia ass

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COMMENTS:

Looks like he\'ll have to resort to mastercallwaiting. - artr, 2009-10-22: 06:23:00

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: fone-junk-ee

Sentence: Steve was a phonejunkie because he could never let a call go by without taking it and ignoring whoever he was with in the process.

Etymology: phone + junkie

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: FONE-ee-yak

Sentence: Raul is such a phoniac that Mary will not even go out with him anymore unless he leaves both cells and his pager at home.

Etymology: phone, maniac, phony, yack

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: SWIHTSH-bohr

Sentence: Alex gave up on carrying on meaningful conversation with his friend, a real switchbore whose cellphone seemed to conveniently ring whenever Alex brought up a serious subject.

Etymology: switchboard (means of switching over telephone conversations) + bore (effect upon the person who got interrupted)

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COMMENTS:

You could also use boor as in someone with really bad manners. - petaj, 2007-04-05: 23:36:00

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Created by: jrogan

Pronunciation: cal-gurl

Sentence: Angela was ignored and jealous. Her boyfriend was a callgurl. And would respond whenever anyone called, regardless of what THEY were doing. And worst of all, he was paying for it by the minute. She started to think, that maybe she should charge...

Etymology: call girl

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COMMENTS:

Interesting:like your approach on this one. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:11:00

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Created by: PythianHabenero

Pronunciation: con-vers-ir-it-ay-shun-al-ist

Sentence: Jenny was a true conversirritationalist: upon receiving a phone call in a movie theatre, she rushed out to catch it and spent the rest of the movie gabbing.

Etymology: "conversationalist" + "irritation"

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: cell/out

Sentence: Brian's rudeness was abounding. Whenever he got a call, he would cellout, totally ignoring the person he was with. Cellout behaviour is the twenty-first century's virtual slap in the face. Cellout is uncivil, uncultured, boorish, tasteless, insensitive, disrespectful, ill-mannered, loutish, discourteous and just damn plain rude and impolite.

Etymology: cell + sell out

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COMMENTS:

Something tells me that you have an "issue" with this type of... Oh! Excuse me my cell's singing... - wordmeister, 2007-04-05: 13:56:00

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Created by: Beutesant

Pronunciation: Stan-dunk

Sentence: Last night Jim and I were off to a really good start, then that asshole interrupted our conversation to answer a phone call. What a standunk!!!!

Etymology: Standunk: from Stand-derived from the phrases: To stand up(lisa stood me up on this date) and "one night stand" and the word dunk. To Stand up/temporarily dump(dunk) someone due to their seeming lack of importance for a measly phone call.

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