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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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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
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
Cellaphant
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: sell a phant
Sentence: Paul was the worst kind of cellaphant one could imagine, with a cell phone that seems to be sprouting from his ear.
Etymology:
Phoneaholics
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: phoneaholic
Sentence: I like to phone, i am an phoneaholic
Etymology: aholic ans phone.
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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Phoniac
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: FONE-ee-yak
Sentence: Raul is such a phoniac that Mary will not even go out with him anymore unless he leaves both cells and his pager at home.
Etymology: phone, maniac, phony, yack
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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Incellent
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: in/sell/ent
Sentence: Joe's rudeness was abounding. Whenever he got a phone call, he would be incellent, totally ignoring the person he was with. Being incellent is the twenty-first century's virtual slap in the face. Being incellent is uncivil, uncultured, boorish, tasteless, insensitive, disrespectful, ill-mannered, loutish, discourteous and just damn plain rude and impolite.
Etymology: INCELLENT - noun - from INSOLENT (boldly rude, or disrespectful; insulting) + CELL (as in cell phone)
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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Communicashun
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Com-u-nic-ay-shun
Sentence: Joe drove his friends mad whenever he received a call on his cell phone, as he would always communicashun them and proceed to talk for ages to the person on the other end of the line. Eventually most of them started to take great exception to this and decided to 'disconnect' their friendship!
Etymology: Communication (to share or exchange information or ideas) Origin Latin communicare 'to share'. + Shun (avoid, ignore or reject)Origin Old English abhor. = Communicashun
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COMMENTS:
Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:13:00
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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