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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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Telegrater
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: tele/grate/ur
Sentence: A telegrater answers the phone and then cuts the listener to shreds.
Etymology: telephone + greeter + grater
Grembiseech
Created by: diyan627
Pronunciation: grem bi seeech
Sentence: My cell phone company has a whole lovely array of grembiseeches working for them. Works out really well for them and the way they put erroneous charges to my account that can never be resolved or even disputed properly because I can't actually carry on a decent conversation with any of them. Me thinks part of customer service training is a course on the art of being a grembiseech in order to make communicating with them as painful and inefficient as possible.
Etymology: greet + gremlin (adept at subverting or sabotaging mechanical systems) + Bit*% + beseech (to address or request earnestly)
Moodycall
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: moōdēkôl
Sentence: Ron and his girlfriend are not seeing eye to eye just now or any body part to corresponding body part for that matter. When he calls her on the yellphone, the hellphone, a bootycall quickly turns into a moodycall. What makes this even more ridiculous is that neither of them can remember what she is so mad about.
Etymology: moody (given to unpredictable changes of mood) + booty call (a sexual invitation or rendezvous)
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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Uncivilservant
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: un siv il ser vant
Sentence: When April joined the Tax Dept. as an Information Officer, she was rude on the phone with all callers. SHe was a most uncivilservant. No wonder taxpayers hated April!
Etymology: Uncivil (rude, lacking manners) & Civil Servant (a public official who is a member of the civil service)
Brusqueteer
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: brusk a teer
Sentence: Friends since childhood, the 3 girls worked the Call Centre for a giant pizza chain. Since they hated their low-paying jobs, they amused themselves each night shift by seeing who could be the rudest Brusqueteer to customers each night. When they did finally lose their jobs, they boasted their motto,"All Fired One, One fired All!"
Etymology: Brusque (marked by rude or peremptory shortness) & Musketeer (a foot soldier armed with a musket...depicted in fiction as the Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas in 1844, whose motto was "All for One, One For All).
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COMMENTS:
I talked to Brusque just this afternoon. - Mustang, 2009-06-02: 08:08:00
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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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Fonethuggery
Created by: ShaniT
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The secretary was an expert at fonethuggery and had been awarded the 'Fonethug 2008' award by her company for endless bad humour, unhelpfulness and foul language whilst conducting company business.
Etymology: Fone - modern day slang for Telephone. Thug - well known definition of nasty vicious person. Thuggery - the act of being nasty and vicious.
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COMMENTS:
funny - bookowl, 2008-04-16: 15:05:00
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Rudemannersaddictivative
Created by: balku4
Pronunciation: roo-de-man-ner-sad-dic-tai-vey-tiv
Sentence: you're a rudemannersaddictivative
Etymology: look at the word and you will find out
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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