Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To ignore the conversation around oneself by focusing on one's smartphone.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn instance of phubbing.
Blend of phone + snub, coined by Adrian Mills at the McCann advertising agency in a brainstorming session in collaboration with the Macquarie Dictionary and a group of selected wordsmiths; subsequently widely promoted by the McCann agency.
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