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DEFINITION: n. A person who immediately answers all cell phone calls, then chats on and on, leaving the people they're with, hanging. v. To answer your phone even when you are in the middle of another conversation.
Verboticisms
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Junkia
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: junn keee ya
Sentence: Her only way to sustain the relationship with this junkia was to call him up while they dated. There they would sit on the abandoned beach holding hands, while talking to each other on their mobiles.
Etymology: nokia, junkie
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COMMENTS:
very funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-10: 13:11:00
Very nice - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:17:00
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Telinquent
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: te-LING-kwuh nt
Sentence: Bob had plans to made mega-bucks as a tele-salesman and, to hone his skills in being able to keeps several potential customers on the line for ages, he devised a game, called "Telinquency," engaging up to half a dozen friends and family members on the phone simultaneously. As expected, it was not long before this ting-a-ling telinquent, broke and friendless, was seeking professional help for his "hang-ups."
Etymology: TEL (telephone); TING-A-LING (linq)ELINQUENT(delinquent) :failing in what duty or behaviour requires; offending by neglect; guilty of a misdeed.
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COMMENTS:
how immature - he must have been a juvenile telinquent - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-10: 13:10:00
He probably even used it while having a tinkle!nice word - galwaywegian, 2008-06-10: 16:57:00
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Cellfish
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: sell-fish
Sentence: When he started taking calls from telemarketers during intimate moments, I realized that he wasn't that into me and was really quite cellfish.
Etymology: cell phone, selfish
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COMMENTS:
another eelegant word from purpeartichokes - petaj, 2007-04-05: 05:00:00
Ooo now that's really fine. - pinwheel, 2007-04-05: 05:02:00
perfect! - playdohheart, 2007-04-05: 05:07:00
Proof that sometimes the most obvious ones are the best. - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-05: 05:40:00
Thanks all. OOoo... I feel like such a cell-ebrity. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-05: 07:12:00
great one! as usual. being a cell-ebrity, this one might get you the verboscar - toadstool57, 2007-04-05: 08:24:00
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Decellerate
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: dee CELL er ate
Sentence: Meetings with my boss are a giant pain in the neck and take way too long, because he always manages to decellerate the meeting at least once by answering his cell phone while we are meeting. And everyone is trapped just sitting there because he does the "wait a minute sign" with his index finger throughout the call. Sometimes he even decellerates things further by placing a call and then holding a three-way phone conversation about other business!
Etymology: cell + decelerate
Cellibrat
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: sell - uh - brat
Sentence: Alexander has always been a cellibrat, rudely leaving friends and even his fiancée, Belle, hanging while he chatted aimlessly with pals about sports, cars, or even other women.
Etymology: Blend of cell and brat, play on the word 'celibrate'.
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COMMENTS:
if he keeps it up he may end up cellibat - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-10: 13:34:00
or the cellibut of a joke! - galwaywegian, 2008-06-10: 16:58:00
Excellent - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:10:00
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Conversaswitch
Created by: sarabeth20
Pronunciation: kahn-verse-ah-switch
Sentence: Bob pulled a conversaswitch on me today and I was so ticked.
Etymology:
Cellibate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sell a bet
Sentence: Anthony soon learned the hard way that when you answer your cell phone, gab to the other party for ages and leave your wife ignored, you will very soon become cellibate! Yes, the only sex you will have is phone sex.
Etymology: Cell (phone) & Celibate ( abstaining from sexual intercourse)
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COMMENTS:
brilliant :) - galwaywegian, 2011-03-11: 03:31:00
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Phonejunkie
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
Polygamouth
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: poll igg am ow th
Sentence: he could'nt see how his polygamouth behaviour was interfering with his chances of having any polygomous behaviour.
Etymology: polygamy, mouth
Cellbidate
Created by: pinwheel
Pronunciation: sell/bi/date
Sentence: Simon was such a cellbidate that Sophie was beginning to feel that the only way she could interact with him, when they were out together, was to call him on his cell.
Etymology: Sell-by-date (an indication of freshness!) + bi + date
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COMMENTS:
Sounds like this would lead to permanent celibacy... Perhaps it was a religious calling. - wordmeister, 2007-04-05: 05:01:00
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Comments:
Verbotomy - 2007-04-05: 04:30:00
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0.
Thank you Stevenson0! ~ James
pungineer - 2008-08-04: 07:15:00
Verbotomy - 2009-10-22: 03:35:00
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0. Thank you Stevenson0. ~ James