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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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Chatterat
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: cha-ter-rat
Sentence: He was a complete chatterat even in movie theaters, so I put a mousetrap on his cellpone and the cat got his tongue
Etymology: chat+rat
Cellcentered
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: selsentər
Sentence: Joey is completely cellcentered. If his phone rings, he*s on it like a hawk on a mouse. It doesn*t matter what*s happening or who he*s with, the phone gets all his attention. It*s gotten to the point where his girlfriend called to break up with him despite the fact that they were in the same room. Of course she had to leave voicemail because he was already on a different call.
Etymology: Cell (a telephone with access to a cellular radio system) + centered (in the center) A play on self-centered
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COMMENTS:
Nice one - galwaywegian, 2009-10-22: 05:51:00
Joey will be cellibate now... - Nosila, 2009-10-23: 01:31:00
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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
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
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:
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
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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Communicashun
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Com-u-nic-ay-shun
Sentence: Joe drove his friends mad whenever he received a call on his cell phone, as he would always communicashun them and proceed to talk for ages to the person on the other end of the line. Eventually most of them started to take great exception to this and decided to 'disconnect' their friendship!
Etymology: Communication (to share or exchange information or ideas) Origin Latin communicare 'to share'. + Shun (avoid, ignore or reject)Origin Old English abhor. = Communicashun
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COMMENTS:
Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:13:00
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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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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
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