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'Sure, I'd love to talk...'

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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Talkitter

Created by: timmy

Pronunciation: Talk it ter

Sentence: Youre a talkitter! I'm a talkitter.

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Attdd

Mrgoodtimes

Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: A T n T D D

Sentence: She couldn't believe that in the middle of her "mother doesn't love me" story he would allow his ATTDD to pull his attention away from her to the car insurance telemarketer..."You say I can save up to 47% on my car insurance, no! Wait does that also mean I could pay more?"

Etymology: AT&T - ADD Not a true word, but 1/2 credit ish?

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Mobiloser

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: mobile + oozer

Sentence: Stupid mobilosers, answering their phones while we're eating dinner.

Etymology: mobile + loser

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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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your sentence sexcells - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-10: 13:20:00

great stuff. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:20:00

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Decellerate

karenanne

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

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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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Cellout

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: cell/out

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

Etymology: cell + sell out

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Something tells me that you have an "issue" with this type of... Oh! Excuse me my cell's singing... - wordmeister, 2007-04-05: 13:56:00

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Cellfish

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: sell-fish

Sentence: When he started taking calls from telemarketers during intimate moments, I realized that he wasn't that into me and was really quite cellfish.

Etymology: cell phone, selfish

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COMMENTS:

petaj another eelegant word from purpeartichokes - petaj, 2007-04-05: 05:00:00

Ooo now that's really fine. - pinwheel, 2007-04-05: 05:02:00

playdohheart perfect! - playdohheart, 2007-04-05: 05:07:00

Proof that sometimes the most obvious ones are the best. - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-05: 05:40:00

Thanks all. OOoo... I feel like such a cell-ebrity. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-05: 07:12:00

great one! as usual. being a cell-ebrity, this one might get you the verboscar - toadstool57, 2007-04-05: 08:24:00

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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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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)

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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