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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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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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Nokiass
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: no key ass
Sentence: She sighed as she watched him fumble through the sheets in search of his phone. This was the last straw. He may have been humg like a stallion, but he acted like a complete nokiass
Etymology: nokia ass
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COMMENTS:
Looks like he\'ll have to resort to mastercallwaiting. - artr, 2009-10-22: 06:23:00
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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)
Cellout
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: sel-lout
Sentence: Jim became a cellout to be more popular. Although his mother raised him to be polite and respectful, if one of the "plastics" called he would stop everything to answer his phone. He was so rude and irritating that even Mother Theresa would have slapped him upside the head.
Etymology: Wordplay on sellout: one who turns his back on his principals or compromises integrity for personal advancement -- cell: cellular phone + lout: rude, ill-mannered. (plastics - term used for the popular kids in the movie "Mean Girls")
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COMMENTS:
good one! - Nosila, 2009-10-23: 01:30:00
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Cellabate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sell a bayt
Sentence: Rita thought it rude when Fritz interrupted their discussions by answering all his cellphone calls and chatting for ages, ignoring her. Fritz was always on the phone instead of the phone being on the Fritz. She told him that if he could not cellabate, then he would become celibate.
Etymology: Cell (handheld portable telephone) & Abate (become less in amount or intensity) & Wordplay on Celibate (abstaining from sexual intercourse)
Ruceller
Created by: Tanik
Pronunciation: roo-sell-er
Sentence: It is hard to go to dinner with Bob because he is a "ruceller."
Etymology: rude + cell + er = ruceller
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COMMENTS:
Sounds like there was lot's of chatting at the dinner. Unfortunately, you weren't part of the conversation - wordmeister, 2008-06-10: 14:36:00
Nice. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:12:00
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Cellout
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: cell/out
Sentence: Brian's rudeness was abounding. Whenever he got a call, he would cellout, totally ignoring the person he was with. Cellout behaviour is the twenty-first century's virtual slap in the face. Cellout is uncivil, uncultured, boorish, tasteless, insensitive, disrespectful, ill-mannered, loutish, discourteous and just damn plain rude and impolite.
Etymology: cell + sell out
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COMMENTS:
Something tells me that you have an "issue" with this type of... Oh! Excuse me my cell's singing... - wordmeister, 2007-04-05: 13:56:00
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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
Celfish
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: (sel-fish)
Sentence: We were just getting into the meat of our conversation when he answered his mother's call and talked for hours, he's such a celfish person.
Etymology: "cell" [cellular phone] and "selfish" [lacking concern for others]
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COMMENTS:
I like this! But maybe, it's because I'm too cell-centered. - wordmeister, 2007-04-05: 13:58:00
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Gallowsbeaver
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: gal-ohs-bee-ver
Sentence: We were keenly discussing the Tolkien references in Zeppelin's music, when Robert's mate Jimmy phoned; and of course the gallowsbeaver had to ramble on, seemingly forgetting our presence.
Etymology: From "gallows" which leaves people hanging, and "beaver" used to mean someone who is eager, and "dam" rude. Boom boom. Also "beavers" in Scouting are the youngest members, giving my word connotations of "childish".
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COMMENTS:
a little convoluted but I'll give you a vote for originality - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-05: 14:46:00
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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