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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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Convoswitch
Created by: CaptainLoggins
Pronunciation: kahn-vo-switch
Sentence: "She just stopped talking to me when her phone rang! She's such a convoswitch!" "He convoswitched me when his best friend called earlier..."
Etymology: Convo (Conversation) + switch
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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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)
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
Cellout
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: sel-lout
Sentence: Jim became a cellout to be more popular. Although his mother raised him to be polite and respectful, if one of the "plastics" called he would stop everything to answer his phone. He was so rude and irritating that even Mother Theresa would have slapped him upside the head.
Etymology: Wordplay on sellout: one who turns his back on his principals or compromises integrity for personal advancement -- cell: cellular phone + lout: rude, ill-mannered. (plastics - term used for the popular kids in the movie "Mean Girls")
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COMMENTS:
good one! - Nosila, 2009-10-23: 01:30:00
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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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COMMENTS:
You are so right! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:18:00
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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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Icellationist
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /ahy-SEL-ley-shun-ist/
Sentence: They were out on a date, but Laura had seen Drew's icellationist behavior already tonight, and on previous dates, when he would talk with his friends for an hour everytime his cellphone rang. He should have been paying attention to her, shouldn't he? So, when he went to the bathroom, she didn't feel guilty at all about popping out the battery, sticking a piece of napkin across the contacts, and putting it back in. He would probably just think the battery went dead.
Etymology: Blend of: Isolationist - one who insulates themselves from ouside or foreign influences (from Latin, insula "island") + Cell - mobile telephone (shortening of 'cellular')
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COMMENTS:
Very good! - TJayzz, 2008-06-10: 09:49:00
he really gave her the cold shoulder - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-10: 13:09:00
Great word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:10:00
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Cellebratty
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: sel-EBB-rat-ee
Sentence: Derek is a real cellebratty, considering himself to be a big 'star' among his cell phone friends list and having the exceedingly bad manners to ignore those around him to go on and on with others who call on his cell phone.
Etymology: Blend of 'cell' (cell phone) and a form of 'brat' (bratty) A play on the word celebrity.
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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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