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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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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:
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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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
Phoneaholics
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: phoneaholic
Sentence: I like to phone, i am an phoneaholic
Etymology: aholic ans phone.
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)
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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Cellwhipped
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: sell-wip-t
Sentence: "Doug is cellwhipped. He can never just let a call go to voice mail. How rude!"
Etymology: cell, as in cellphone and whip
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