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DEFINITION: v. To greet a person on the phone in rude or obnoxious manner, and then do your best to ignore, or talk over, whatever they say as the conversation continues. n. A person with atrocious phone manners.
Verboticisms
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Operaver
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: OP-ehr-ayvr
Sentence: Lucinda hated her job as customer service operator and as each day wore on and she tired of handling so many complaints and insults she became an operaver, returning insults and making slurs of all sorts.
Etymology: Blend of operator and 'raver' (one who utters as if in madness)
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COMMENTS:
Good match to today's illustration. - artr, 2009-06-02: 06:57:00
clever! - mweinmann, 2009-06-02: 08:45:00
Raving good word - Nosila, 2009-06-02: 12:18:00
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Operantor
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Opp - uhr - RANT - er
Sentence: Hildegarde hated her job as a customer service representative and took every opportunity to respond with her mean mouth operantor persona.
Etymology: Blend of operator and ranter.
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COMMENTS:
great! - bookowl, 2008-04-16: 15:04:00
Clever angle — great word! - Tigger, 2008-04-16: 23:04:00
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Curtesty
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: ker-testee
Sentence: Sue made a curtesty call to her boyfriend. After ranting for five minutes using all the potty words she knew, she realized that she had accidentaly punched in the wrong speed dial number and had been screaming at her grandmother.
Etymology: (wordplay on courtesy call) curt: rude or abrupt in speech or manner+ testy: irritable, grumpy, petulant
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COMMENTS:
LOVE IT I can relate especially the accidental speed dial part - DrWebsterIII, 2009-06-02: 23:27:00
great word. - mweinmann, 2009-06-03: 07:22:00
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Telephuriate
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: těl'ə-fyŏŏr'ē-āt'
Sentence: "Hello?" Clarence answered after the second ring. "WHO IS THIS?" shouted a voice on the other end. Clarence knew by his voice that the caller was Antonin, but he had been tetephuriated and responded, "Just who the blazes is THIS?!?"
Etymology: 'Telephure' the anciend Celt goddess of rude greetings; 'I ate,' response to a late lunch invitation.
Phonewitch
Created by: arrrteest
Pronunciation: phōn-wich
Sentence: Becky was an angry employee. She worked late nights at a call center with a hundred other telephone customer service representatives. It was not a job that suited her, for she was a phonewitch extraordinaire. Bitter about life in general, she took it out on the random caller who happened upon her. Sometimes she would answer, "Please hold while I finish filing my nails," or "Sorry, but we've reached our quota on stupid calls." Other times she would mumble unintelligently until the customer would hang up. When she was feeling particularly good, she would instigate arguments until the customer asked for the manager, at which she would put them on hold for a while and then get back on and pretend she was the manager.
Etymology: phone + witch : also, phonebitch
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COMMENTS:
hehehe, I wish I could do that sometimes! - pieceof314, 2008-04-16: 08:54:00
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Bellaphonna
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: bella/fauna
Sentence: The receptionist is such a bellaphonna that only masochists call now.
Etymology: belladonna ( a poisonous plant) + bell (phone company) + phone
Telebarketer
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: tehl-uh-barrk-at-err
Sentence: Jolene was the perfect Customer Service Rep: she talked fast and loud, was completely deaf, and had years of experience as a Bill Collector, Meter Maid, and Telebarketer.
Etymology: bark at her, from telemarketer
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COMMENTS:
And she cxalls during dinner each night! - Nosila, 2009-06-02: 12:19:00
So THAT's who keeps calling. Good one! - Mustang, 2009-06-02: 21:00:00
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Telemarketeerbasher
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: telly-market-ear-basher
Sentence: Tellymarketeerbashing had never been on Lilith's career plans, however her dominearing manner and the fact that she had no qualms about abusing complete strangers on the telephone led to her being head-hunted by the Insultancy firm to answer their calls. http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=insult
Etymology: telemarketer + ear bash
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COMMENTS:
love it! - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-16: 15:06:00
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Viletone
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: vial tone
Sentence: Helen worked at the Help Desk of her company's IT Dept. Hah, Helen thought,Help Desk was an oxymoron of a name for it. She went out of her way to ensure that Help Desk was an ironic choice of name. Whenever those moronic employees would call about their petty issues, she'd snidely say things like: "Is your computer plugged in? Did you turn it on yet? How can you be so stupid as to not know the terminology? Call us back when you get a clue!" She was always cutting people off, swearing at them and taking out her bad moods by being a viletone with the callers. Her co-workers cringed when she answered the phone and they felt pity for the poor slob on the other end of the line. That was until one day when she picked the wrong client to offend. After viletoning him for ten minutes, Helen was left speechless to find that she had bad-mouthed her boss. Bill Gates told her that she would never have to worry about hating her job again...
Etymology: vile (thoroughly unpleasant, morally reprehensible,nasty, offensive,despicable) & tone (the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people,the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli) & dial tone (sound given by telephone exchange to show line is clear to make a call)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by stache. Thank you stache. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by stache. Thank you stache. ~ James
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