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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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Fullbarsbaric
Created by: playdohheart
Pronunciation: full-bars-bare-ic
Sentence: It's really quite fullbarsbaric of you to talk to your ex girlfriend on the phone while you already have perfect reception with me in person!
Etymology: "Full bars" (having excellent cell phone reception) + barbaric
Ruceller
Created by: Tanik
Pronunciation: roo-sell-er
Sentence: It is hard to go to dinner with Bob because he is a "ruceller."
Etymology: rude + cell + er = ruceller
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COMMENTS:
Sounds like there was lot's of chatting at the dinner. Unfortunately, you weren't part of the conversation - wordmeister, 2008-06-10: 14:36:00
Nice. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:12:00
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Attdd
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: A T n T D D
Sentence: She couldn't believe that in the middle of her "mother doesn't love me" story he would allow his ATTDD to pull his attention away from her to the car insurance telemarketer..."You say I can save up to 47% on my car insurance, no! Wait does that also mean I could pay more?"
Etymology: AT&T - ADD Not a true word, but 1/2 credit ish?
Cellout
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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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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Nophonetics
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: nofoneticks
Sentence: Mary's nophonetics meant that her firends got up and left the coffee shop without her.
Etymology: no - meaning haveing no phone - meaning hearing, particulary the mechanical hearing device uaed across distances ,abbreviation of telephone. ethics - moral guidelines
Cellwhipped
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: sell-wip-t
Sentence: "Doug is cellwhipped. He can never just let a call go to voice mail. How rude!"
Etymology: cell, as in cellphone and whip
Ignorrantus
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: ig-nor-rant-us
Sentence: After a beautiful romantic dinner, Sally and Edward were sitting in the car preparing their good-byes. Sally batted her eyes and demurely looked down, past the stick-shift, towards the pulsing bulge in Edward's lap. She quickly shifted her eyes up, and met his, which were filled with passion. In fact, it looked like he was about to explode, when he suddenly reached down pulled out his vibrating cellphone! Edward's faced relaxed as pulled the phone to his face, turned away and started ignorranting with one of his buddies. Sally was left to her thoughts and sighed, "What an ignorrantus!"
Etymology: ignore + rant = ignorant
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COMMENTS:
your sentence sexcells - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-10: 13:20:00
great stuff. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:20:00
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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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Callisinterruptus
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kawl is inter rup tus
Sentence: Wendy was furious at her fiance Paul's poor manners. He always took phone calls when they were in the middle of something together, like a serious discussion and put her on hold until he was finished. The final straw was on their honeymoon, when at the most intimate moment, he answered a call and talked for ten minutes. She was really mad when she found out that the callisinterruptus was a poll company doing a survey about what he did to make his relationships more romantic!
Etymology: Call is (telephone connection is) & Interrupt us (interfere in someone else's activity)& play on Coitus Interruptus (contraceptive method)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0.
Thank you Stevenson0! ~ James
pungineer - 2008-08-04: 07:15:00
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0. Thank you Stevenson0. ~ James