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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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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.
Phonejunkie
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: fone-junk-ee
Sentence: Steve was a phonejunkie because he could never let a call go by without taking it and ignoring whoever he was with in the process.
Etymology: phone + junkie
Conversirritationalist
Created by: PythianHabenero
Pronunciation: con-vers-ir-it-ay-shun-al-ist
Sentence: Jenny was a true conversirritationalist: upon receiving a phone call in a movie theatre, she rushed out to catch it and spent the rest of the movie gabbing.
Etymology: "conversationalist" + "irritation"
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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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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Cellaphant
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: sell a phant
Sentence: Paul was the worst kind of cellaphant one could imagine, with a cell phone that seems to be sprouting from his ear.
Etymology:
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)
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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Conversaswitch
Created by: sarabeth20
Pronunciation: kahn-verse-ah-switch
Sentence: Bob pulled a conversaswitch on me today and I was so ticked.
Etymology:
Longphoner
Created by: WhiteRhino
Pronunciation: Long-phone-er
Sentence: John couldn't help but talk - he was a natural longphoner.
Etymology: Long, phone
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