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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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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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Cellacious
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sel-ey-shuhs
Sentence: Judy thought it was the biggest joke to send out cellacious messages on hers and friends phones. Her little prank backfired on her when she accidentally left an obscene voicemail for the head of HR for the company she used to work for.
Etymology: cell (wireless phone) + salacious (obscene; grossly indecent)
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
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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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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Lineswine
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: line-swine
Sentence: "WHO'S THIS?!?!?" barked the old lady over the phone. I immediately hung up. Not dealing with lineswine today.
Etymology: line (phone line) + swine (pig)
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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Agressevere
Created by: pieceof314
Pronunciation: uh gres uh veer
Sentence: You could just sense the sneer on the other end of the phone. The venom and anger of the agressevere completely trampled any notion that George had for complaining about the missing parts of the mail order kit he just received. When he tried to explain the problem, he was mocked and talked over. Eventually he gave up and threw the kit away.
Etymology: agressive + perservere/severe
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)
Opberator
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: äpbirātər
Sentence: Hilda loves her job as an opberator. It gives her a great sense of power that she can disconnect dozens of callers with a simple flip of a switch. She can deride a caller to the point where they will often apologize for bothering her. And that thing about calls being recorded for quality-control purposes? The tapes are played at monthly staff meetings as entertainment.
Etymology: operator (a person who works at a telephone switchboard) + berate (scold or criticize someone angrily)
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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