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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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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
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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Nokiass
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: no key ass
Sentence: She sighed as she watched him fumble through the sheets in search of his phone. This was the last straw. He may have been humg like a stallion, but he acted like a complete nokiass
Etymology: nokia ass
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COMMENTS:
Looks like he\'ll have to resort to mastercallwaiting. - artr, 2009-10-22: 06:23:00
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Cellibate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sell a bet
Sentence: Anthony soon learned the hard way that when you answer your cell phone, gab to the other party for ages and leave your wife ignored, you will very soon become cellibate! Yes, the only sex you will have is phone sex.
Etymology: Cell (phone) & Celibate ( abstaining from sexual intercourse)
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COMMENTS:
brilliant :) - galwaywegian, 2011-03-11: 03:31:00
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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
Cellphcentered
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: self/sen/turd
Sentence: Jack was so cellphcentered that he had his cell phone surgically attached to his ear
Etymology: cell phone + self centered ( really implies cell phone centered)
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COMMENTS:
Like the "ph" in the middle! - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-05: 08:57:00
thanks Purple - I had actually thought of your word and was phrantically trying to come up with another - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-05: 14:43:00
I hate when that happens! Very phrustrating. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-05: 16:14:00
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Standunk
Created by: Beutesant
Pronunciation: Stan-dunk
Sentence: Last night Jim and I were off to a really good start, then that asshole interrupted our conversation to answer a phone call. What a standunk!!!!
Etymology: Standunk: from Stand-derived from the phrases: To stand up(lisa stood me up on this date) and "one night stand" and the word dunk. To Stand up/temporarily dump(dunk) someone due to their seeming lack of importance for a measly phone call.
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
Callchurl
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: caw-l-ch-url
Sentence: Since Maggie got her job working for a phone sex call centre, her friends thought she was a callchurl -- when the phone rang she immediately went into embarrassing, steamy, phone-siren mode.
Etymology: callgirl (prostitute) + call (telephone conversation) + churl (boor, bad mannered)
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