Word of the Day -Phub

• Verb: Phub
  1. verb (used with object), phubbed, phubbing.
     • to ignore (a person or one’s surroundings) when in a social situation by busying oneself with a phone or other mobile device: Hey, are you phubbing me?
  2. verb (used without object),phubbed, phub·bing.
     • to ignore a person or one’s surroundings in this way.
  3. Think Phone + snub
• Synonyms:
  • As this is a recently birthed word, no synonyms were found.  However, such words as ignore, being rude, anti-social, snubbing, etc would work fine IMHO.
• Usage:
  1. “I thought you told me that we do not talk enough? Why are you phubbing me as I drive us to Tick Bush?”
• Encountered:
  1.   The word was passed on to me by one the 3.141592 regular readers of the silliness that is Curmudgeon-Alley.

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