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'Sure, I'd love to talk...'

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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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"

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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

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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:

artr Looks like he\'ll have to resort to mastercallwaiting. - artr, 2009-10-22: 06:23:00

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Decellerate

karenanne

Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: dee CELL er ate

Sentence: Meetings with my boss are a giant pain in the neck and take way too long, because he always manages to decellerate the meeting at least once by answering his cell phone while we are meeting. And everyone is trapped just sitting there because he does the "wait a minute sign" with his index finger throughout the call. Sometimes he even decellerates things further by placing a call and then holding a three-way phone conversation about other business!

Etymology: cell + decelerate

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Icellationist

Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /ahy-SEL-ley-shun-ist/

Sentence: They were out on a date, but Laura had seen Drew's icellationist behavior already tonight, and on previous dates, when he would talk with his friends for an hour everytime his cellphone rang. He should have been paying attention to her, shouldn't he? So, when he went to the bathroom, she didn't feel guilty at all about popping out the battery, sticking a piece of napkin across the contacts, and putting it back in. He would probably just think the battery went dead.

Etymology: Blend of: Isolationist - one who insulates themselves from ouside or foreign influences (from Latin, insula "island") + Cell - mobile telephone (shortening of 'cellular')

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COMMENTS:

Very good! - TJayzz, 2008-06-10: 09:49:00

he really gave her the cold shoulder - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-10: 13:09:00

Great word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:10:00

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Telinquent

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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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

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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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Cellut

Created by: pungineer

Pronunciation: Sslut

Sentence: Ferdinand had impeccable table manners, he held the door open for old ladies crossing the street and even coughed to mask his flatulence, however when it came to mobile communication his etiquette was in the gutter. At the merest quiver of his cellular telephone, regardless of how deep in conversation he was in with the esteemed friend or colleague right in front of him he pounced on his oral interaction device and started gabbling frivolous nonsense. He was without doubt a most terrible cellut.

Etymology: Cell+Slut = Cellut

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COMMENTS:

Good Word...they should investigate what's at the root of this phenomena...you know some cell stem research! - Nosila, 2008-06-10: 20:51:00

Wow I only just realised i got one - i've been the phone!! - pungineer, 2008-08-04: 07:18:00

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Cellovain

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: seləvān

Sentence: Bob’s love for his new phone is transparent. He is completely cellovain. He is such a servant to this electronic mistress that he will respond to its chirping at almost any time or place. The whole church was aghast when he stopped the proceedings of his wedding to take a call.

Etymology: cell (a telephone with access to a cellular radio system) + vain (having or showing an excessively high opinion of one’s appearance, abilities, or worth)

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-05: 04:30:00
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0.
Thank you Stevenson0! ~ James

pungineer - 2008-08-04: 07:15:00

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-10-22: 03:35:00
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0. Thank you Stevenson0. ~ James