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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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Celfish

Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: (sel-fish)

Sentence: We were just getting into the meat of our conversation when he answered his mother's call and talked for hours, he's such a celfish person.

Etymology: "cell" [cellular phone] and "selfish" [lacking concern for others]

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COMMENTS:

I like this! But maybe, it's because I'm too cell-centered. - wordmeister, 2007-04-05: 13:58:00

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Phoneaholics

Created by: josje

Pronunciation: phoneaholic

Sentence: I like to phone, i am an phoneaholic

Etymology: aholic ans phone.

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Celloutish

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: cel-lout-ish

Sentence: David acted like a celloutish big shot, taking every call and ignoring Jill, even during the wedding.

Etymology: cell, as in cell phone/sellout, as in betray/loutish, as in rude

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Lonecall

Created by: simoneshin

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Incellent

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: in/sell/ent

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

Etymology: INCELLENT - noun - from INSOLENT (boldly rude, or disrespectful; insulting) + CELL (as in cell phone)

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Celphcentered

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: self/sent/ured

Sentence: Jack was so celphcentered that he had his cell phone surgically attached to his ear so that he wouldn't miss a call.

Etymology: cell + self centered

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COMMENTS:

ExCELLent! (What? Someone had to say it...) Fits the definition perfectly. - Tigger, 2008-06-10: 10:30:00

You may joking about the surgery, but I bet this will be really happening within five years. And so the "me generation" will be ultimately be replaced by the "celphcentered generation". - wordmeister, 2008-06-10: 13:40:00

So very well constructed. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:09:00

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Cellovain

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: seləvān

Sentence: Bob’s love for his new phone is transparent. He is completely cellovain. He is such a servant to this electronic mistress that he will respond to its chirping at almost any time or place. The whole church was aghast when he stopped the proceedings of his wedding to take a call.

Etymology: cell (a telephone with access to a cellular radio system) + vain (having or showing an excessively high opinion of one’s appearance, abilities, or worth)

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Nokiavoid

Created by: rebelvin

Pronunciation: NOKIa+AVOID

Sentence: At first I thought he was fine, but soon enough I discovered he was a closet nokiavoid, seemingly unaware of how rude it is to interrupt in-person conversation for cell phone calls, even going so far as chatting up wrong-number callers.

Etymology: NOKIa+AVOID

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Cellectivehearing

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: sell/ec/tiv/hearing

Sentence: Cellectivehearing is a modern pandemic.

Etymology: selective hearing + cell

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You are so right! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:18:00

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Cellbait

Created by: ewigkeit

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Comments:

Verbotomy 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 Verbotomy - 2009-10-22: 03:35:00
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0. Thank you Stevenson0. ~ James