Verboticisms

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.

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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

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: te-LING-kwuh nt

Sentence: Bob had plans to made mega-bucks as a tele-salesman and, to hone his skills in being able to keeps several potential customers on the line for ages, he devised a game, called "Telinquency," engaging up to half a dozen friends and family members on the phone simultaneously. As expected, it was not long before this ting-a-ling telinquent, broke and friendless, was seeking professional help for his "hang-ups."

Etymology: TEL (telephone); TING-A-LING (linq)ELINQUENT(delinquent) :failing in what duty or behaviour requires; offending by neglect; guilty of a misdeed.

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COMMENTS:

how immature - he must have been a juvenile telinquent - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-10: 13:10:00

He probably even used it while having a tinkle!nice word - galwaywegian, 2008-06-10: 16:57:00

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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.

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: mobile + oozer

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

Etymology: mobile + loser

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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

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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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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)

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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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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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