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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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Ringslave
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪŋsleɪv/
Sentence: I worry about becoming a ringslave because I do answer the phone almost immediately every time it rings, but I think my humanity may be saved by the fact that I seem incapable of carrying on a conversation that lasts more than 30 seconds over the phone.
Etymology: From ring + slave
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COMMENTS:
I'm actually not quite that bad. I don't answer it at family events (unless it's more family), in theaters, or during class. And I always keep it on silent. But I worry about it nonetheless. - ErWenn, 2007-04-05: 08:31:00
Ringslave precedes ringworm. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-05: 08:56:00
Ringworm at dinner? Yikes... - wordmeister, 2007-04-05: 14:01:00
Ringworm just about anywhere near me earns a "Yikes." - ErWenn, 2007-04-05: 23:26:00
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Celluloner
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.
Cellbidate
Created by: pinwheel
Pronunciation: sell/bi/date
Sentence: Simon was such a cellbidate that Sophie was beginning to feel that the only way she could interact with him, when they were out together, was to call him on his cell.
Etymology: Sell-by-date (an indication of freshness!) + bi + date
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COMMENTS:
Sounds like this would lead to permanent celibacy... Perhaps it was a religious calling. - wordmeister, 2007-04-05: 05:01:00
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Recepshunned
Created by: Erikv
Pronunciation: Re sep shund
Sentence: Julie was enjoying their time together in the mountains but reality rushed back when they returned to civilization and the calls caused her to be immediately recepshunned.
Etymology: reception plus shunned
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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Callgurl
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: cal-gurl
Sentence: Angela was ignored and jealous. Her boyfriend was a callgurl. And would respond whenever anyone called, regardless of what THEY were doing. And worst of all, he was paying for it by the minute. She started to think, that maybe she should charge...
Etymology: call girl
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COMMENTS:
Interesting:like your approach on this one. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:11:00
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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
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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Isoboor
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: eye-sow-boor
Sentence: I was in the express checkout when some ISOBOOR in front of me started droning on about his self-important lifestyle. When pulled from the wreckage, the ISOBOOR said he's been distracted while using his cellphone. When Mickey gets off the phone, IGNORE her! She's an ISOBOOR. isoboorish,isoboorism,isoboored
Etymology: iso-to isolate one's self boor- a person with no manners
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COMMENTS:
...and that applies to those annoying little spaceships they stick in their ears!
james sternick - metrohumanx, 2008-06-15: 12:01:00
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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
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