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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.
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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.
Rudeceptionist
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Rood-sepshunist
Sentence: I swear that by the way the rudeceptionist spoke to me on the phone, she thought that I was some kind of simpleton!
Etymology: Rude (Impolite,unnecessarily curt) + Receptionist(Person that answers company calls and deals with Customer service enquiries
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COMMENTS:
Love it! - Tigger, 2008-04-16: 23:05:00
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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)
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)
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
Telecrone
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: teh leh krow nnnnnnnnn
Sentence: Shrilla was the scariest telecrone in the complaints department. She had a voice that made chalk screeching down a blackboard sound like a choir of angels. she could swear in fourteen languages and had some strange power of transmitting her gin-based halitosis down the phone lines. Nobody had ever lasted more than 78 seconds with their complaints. She was paid more than the entire R&D section of the company.
Etymology: telephone, crone
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COMMENTS:
great sentence - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-16: 08:24:00
Clever blend. Love the name 'Shrilla'!! - Tigger, 2008-04-16: 22:57:00
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Gotohello
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: go/to/hell/o
Sentence: She always answered the phone with a grating nasty "Gotohello". Then she would continue with a long string of erfhwask lu qkweuydcbwouiycqiuowqbyecqy ksdjgcskca kwejhf mdn sd, fj wdajrhwe iud woiur efukows eriuh rtudx rweiu eip vi uwer e er uerj erilhfriu eriu er iou erniuefsh ueher iopueroiereroiger(o) grekj hgetk;ud fhgo ji hbgr;seodiruvkudhfekjghrfcku viuenhvcfoiweunrviuerwvceui uewrbviuervgen wc iuer ieru vjh rvui hcr jhciu vriv esg iwgaefiucbiusa wyeuigfc i wer gfwerugfi uewrh f wiuf viuerfuifiphygreiu ksadjhfkjvsdfhf jklhrfveuiowrhfgoiuerv ojkdfkjhsauitryubnw vwebyt evefjknbb dsrjhewrouibn jihercb vroui erobiuvwebn veu ery bv e vunierniv e veio ueroiueroui ervstr oui tvegoi oi erv tuio vitrg oitrv i eruitv iourvtoier fgv iusdfio dvgof dfioig oi sv toi dgrioghdroi trouitogfi u teiutrioh uoritu goiut geuiogt oiu retugojiiouveojhvilr eruioh gkuevohoef nel hjglktrhjg eroruith go eguhrtoh gvuhb trjdlhi fbgn troitr jgoikjnbligj oijt roijiotrj troijt hrod jkfd hobgofgihj tuj trgio hgoog id gfiofg oi gfoi jhg dguoh og hji oi goigf iogfih oijg sritvujeoriuvng cjhsdbfviehgv sieuh sodfh kjr jrhfsd sa psgfsdhhfg fdkgjhg jgfkslng gapotruiy otui ofih ktjhntn fngfjgy tgjgjg kfjgjgnvkdfl poeoeyrn djjfjfghjhhjhjytoiu yjrtrtuyn yrk. Ooge eortu rtjgji ioodfhbt salker gkklt drkhjthg kgjyn. And finish with "Goodbye jackass".
Etymology: go + to + hello
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COMMENTS:
glad you got that off your chest? - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-16: 15:02:00
Sorry, didn't catch that. Can you please repeat it? - Tigger, 2008-04-16: 23:01:00
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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)
Obnoxyeller
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: əbnäkyelər
Sentence: Brittney is such an obnoxyeller that nobody wants to be placed near her cubicle. Her shrieking has been known to effect calls by other salespersons. Strangely, her customers find her ranting more entertaining than offending. They also tend to be fans of the Soup Nazi from Sienfeld.
Etymology: obnoxious (extremely unpleasant) + yeller (a person who is loud/shouts)
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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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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