Verboticism: Telemarketeerbasher
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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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)
Answeraging
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: an-sir-rage-ing
Sentence: Helen had a bad habit of answeraging into the phone with her bad attitude.
Etymology: Answer-reply; reaction. & Raging- violent; mad
Dominearring
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /dom-in-EER-ring/
Sentence: Nobody ever wanted to call Wanda back, or receive a call from her in the first place, due to her dominearring ways. The last time Jon answered a call from her, he didn't even get to finish a sentence — she would always just cut him off or shout over him. As his phone rang now, he recognized Wanda's number on the caller ID and just sighed and let the call go to voicemail. He knew she couldn't leave a message until his outgoing message played, so at least his recorded voice would get to finish a couple of sentences.
Etymology: Play on the word: Domineering - exercising arbitrary or arrogant control (from Dutch, domineren "to rule") + ear; also "dom" (short for 'dominant'), "in-ear" and "ring".
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COMMENTS:
nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-16: 08:25:00
Clever -- like the earring part! - pieceof314, 2008-04-16: 08:55:00
Do they make dominecklaces to go with the dominearrings? Good Word - Nosila, 2008-04-17: 01:06:00
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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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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
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)
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)
Sinsolent
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sin sil ent
Sentence: Rudi Persson was prone to be a sinsolent individual. She was paid to answer phones and help people, but in fact, she did the opposite. When people told her, "Have a Nice Day", she would mutter, "I've made other plans".
Etymology: Sin (commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake) & Insolent (marked by casual disrespect;an offensive disrespectful impudent act;trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties)
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
Phonediva
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: phone+diva
Sentence: Watch out for her if you dial-in, she is such a phonediva, you may not ever get to speak.
Etymology: phone+diva