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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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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"
Fullbarsbaric
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
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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Nokiavoid
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: NOKIa+AVOID
Sentence: At first I thought he was fine, but soon enough I discovered he was a closet nokiavoid, seemingly unaware of how rude it is to interrupt in-person conversation for cell phone calls, even going so far as chatting up wrong-number callers.
Etymology: NOKIa+AVOID
Cellebratty
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: sel-EBB-rat-ee
Sentence: Derek is a real cellebratty, considering himself to be a big 'star' among his cell phone friends list and having the exceedingly bad manners to ignore those around him to go on and on with others who call on his cell phone.
Etymology: Blend of 'cell' (cell phone) and a form of 'brat' (bratty) A play on the word celebrity.
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
Celloutish
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: cel-lout-ish
Sentence: David acted like a celloutish big shot, taking every call and ignoring Jill, even during the wedding.
Etymology: cell, as in cell phone/sellout, as in betray/loutish, as in rude
Cellibate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sell a bet
Sentence: Anthony soon learned the hard way that when you answer your cell phone, gab to the other party for ages and leave your wife ignored, you will very soon become cellibate! Yes, the only sex you will have is phone sex.
Etymology: Cell (phone) & Celibate ( abstaining from sexual intercourse)
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COMMENTS:
brilliant :) - galwaywegian, 2011-03-11: 03:31:00
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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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Celleezy
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sell ee zee
Sentence: Celldon was one Celleezy person. Whenever he took his latest girlfriend, Cellcilia out, he would repeatedly answer the calls he got from his future girlfriends Cellectra or Cellvia on his cell and talk to them for ages, in the company of Cellcilia. Needless to say, Cellcilia, would get upset and feel ignored, particularly when his chats turned to a more graphic nature. He often wondered why these women became so cellective and never wanted to go on a second date. Oh well, plenty more fish in the sea to cellect from... That is until one day he answered such a call in front of his wife, Cellda... It took the doctors three hours to surgically remove that cellphone from Celldon's cellected orifice. And yes, he can hear her now.
Etymology: cell (cellular phone) & sleazy (tawdry, lacking class, morally degraded, of poor quality)
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COMMENTS:
Down with celleezy celluts! - pungineer, 2008-06-10: 06:53:00
song of the day "Cellcilia, you're breaking my heart You're shaking my confidence daily" - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-10: 13:33:00
Or "Cellebrate good times, come on..." Oh no, now they are both in my head! - Nosila, 2008-06-10: 20:56:00
You got me going now: 'operator could help me place this call.." - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:16:00
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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