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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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Switchbore

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: SWIHTSH-bohr

Sentence: Alex gave up on carrying on meaningful conversation with his friend, a real switchbore whose cellphone seemed to conveniently ring whenever Alex brought up a serious subject.

Etymology: switchboard (means of switching over telephone conversations) + bore (effect upon the person who got interrupted)

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COMMENTS:

petaj You could also use boor as in someone with really bad manners. - petaj, 2007-04-05: 23:36:00

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Attdd

Mrgoodtimes

Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: A T n T D D

Sentence: She couldn't believe that in the middle of her "mother doesn't love me" story he would allow his ATTDD to pull his attention away from her to the car insurance telemarketer..."You say I can save up to 47% on my car insurance, no! Wait does that also mean I could pay more?"

Etymology: AT&T - ADD Not a true word, but 1/2 credit ish?

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Incellent

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: in/sell/ent

Sentence: Joe's rudeness was abounding. Whenever he got a phone call, he would be incellent, totally ignoring the person he was with. Being incellent is the twenty-first century's virtual slap in the face. Being incellent is uncivil, uncultured, boorish, tasteless, insensitive, disrespectful, ill-mannered, loutish, discourteous and just damn plain rude and impolite.

Etymology: INCELLENT - noun - from INSOLENT (boldly rude, or disrespectful; insulting) + CELL (as in cell phone)

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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.

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Cellout

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: sel-lout

Sentence: Jim became a cellout to be more popular. Although his mother raised him to be polite and respectful, if one of the "plastics" called he would stop everything to answer his phone. He was so rude and irritating that even Mother Theresa would have slapped him upside the head.

Etymology: Wordplay on sellout: one who turns his back on his principals or compromises integrity for personal advancement -- cell: cellular phone + lout: rude, ill-mannered. (plastics - term used for the popular kids in the movie "Mean Girls")

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COMMENTS:

good one! - Nosila, 2009-10-23: 01:30:00

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Callisinterruptus

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kawl is inter rup tus

Sentence: Wendy was furious at her fiance Paul's poor manners. He always took phone calls when they were in the middle of something together, like a serious discussion and put her on hold until he was finished. The final straw was on their honeymoon, when at the most intimate moment, he answered a call and talked for ten minutes. She was really mad when she found out that the callisinterruptus was a poll company doing a survey about what he did to make his relationships more romantic!

Etymology: Call is (telephone connection is) & Interrupt us (interfere in someone else's activity)& play on Coitus Interruptus (contraceptive method)

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Deluphonary

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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: deh - LOO - foh - nah - ree

Sentence: Buddy is such a deluphonary when it comes to his girlfriend.

Etymology: delusionary + phone

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Conversirritationalist

Created by: PythianHabenero

Pronunciation: con-vers-ir-it-ay-shun-al-ist

Sentence: Jenny was a true conversirritationalist: upon receiving a phone call in a movie theatre, she rushed out to catch it and spent the rest of the movie gabbing.

Etymology: "conversationalist" + "irritation"

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Celluloner

Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: cell - you - loner

Sentence: The best thing you can do in your life: stay away from celluloners.

Etymology: cellular phone + loner = celluloner.

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Celleezy

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: sell ee zee

Sentence: Celldon was one Celleezy person. Whenever he took his latest girlfriend, Cellcilia out, he would repeatedly answer the calls he got from his future girlfriends Cellectra or Cellvia on his cell and talk to them for ages, in the company of Cellcilia. Needless to say, Cellcilia, would get upset and feel ignored, particularly when his chats turned to a more graphic nature. He often wondered why these women became so cellective and never wanted to go on a second date. Oh well, plenty more fish in the sea to cellect from... That is until one day he answered such a call in front of his wife, Cellda... It took the doctors three hours to surgically remove that cellphone from Celldon's cellected orifice. And yes, he can hear her now.

Etymology: cell (cellular phone) & sleazy (tawdry, lacking class, morally degraded, of poor quality)

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COMMENTS:

Down with celleezy celluts! - pungineer, 2008-06-10: 06:53:00

song of the day "Cellcilia, you're breaking my heart You're shaking my confidence daily" - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-10: 13:33:00

Or "Cellebrate good times, come on..." Oh no, now they are both in my head! - Nosila, 2008-06-10: 20:56:00

You got me going now: 'operator could help me place this call.." - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:16:00

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-05: 04:30:00
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0.
Thank you Stevenson0! ~ James

pungineer - 2008-08-04: 07:15:00

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-10-22: 03:35:00
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0. Thank you Stevenson0. ~ James