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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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Celluloner
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: cell - you - loner
Sentence: The best thing you can do in your life: stay away from celluloners.
Etymology: cellular phone + loner = celluloner.
Telecommunicashunsexpert
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: tell-ee-cuh-myoo-knee-cay-shuns-ex-pert
Sentence: the first time he answered the phone she figured it must be important... but by the fourth phone call she realised he was a telecommunicashunsexpert
Etymology: telecommunications expert, shun
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
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
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:
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
Gallowsbeaver
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: gal-ohs-bee-ver
Sentence: We were keenly discussing the Tolkien references in Zeppelin's music, when Robert's mate Jimmy phoned; and of course the gallowsbeaver had to ramble on, seemingly forgetting our presence.
Etymology: From "gallows" which leaves people hanging, and "beaver" used to mean someone who is eager, and "dam" rude. Boom boom. Also "beavers" in Scouting are the youngest members, giving my word connotations of "childish".
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COMMENTS:
a little convoluted but I'll give you a vote for originality - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-05: 14:46:00
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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
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
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