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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.
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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)
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
Communicashun
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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Isoboor
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: eye-sow-boor
Sentence: I was in the express checkout when some ISOBOOR in front of me started droning on about his self-important lifestyle. When pulled from the wreckage, the ISOBOOR said he's been distracted while using his cellphone. When Mickey gets off the phone, IGNORE her! She's an ISOBOOR. isoboorish,isoboorism,isoboored
Etymology: iso-to isolate one's self boor- a person with no manners
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COMMENTS:
...and that applies to those annoying little spaceships they stick in their ears!
james sternick - metrohumanx, 2008-06-15: 12:01:00
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Jakasitis
Created by: Karuma
Pronunciation: jak-ass-ie-tis
Sentence: don't mind the twitching, everytime i hear a celphone ring my jakasitis starts to act up.
Etymology:
Mobiloser
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: mobile + oozer
Sentence: Stupid mobilosers, answering their phones while we're eating dinner.
Etymology: mobile + loser
Contamobilvernacularity
Created by: Jaxies
Pronunciation: /kon-ta-moe-bill-verna-cue-lar-i-tea/
Sentence: "If he didn't stop contamobilvernacularising to his ex-girlfriend while she was having lunch with him soon, she was going to grab her fork and stab him in the eye."
Etymology: Continuous + mobile [phone] + vernacular + -ity
Cellaphant
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: sell a phant
Sentence: Paul was the worst kind of cellaphant one could imagine, with a cell phone that seems to be sprouting from his ear.
Etymology:
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