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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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Jakasitis
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.
Etymology:
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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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
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)
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.
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
Polygamouth
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: poll igg am ow th
Sentence: he could'nt see how his polygamouth behaviour was interfering with his chances of having any polygomous behaviour.
Etymology: polygamy, mouth
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)
Nophonetics
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
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