27 July 2018

phub

[fuhb] Slang.

verb (used with object), phubbed, phubbing.

1. 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?
I hate to see a mother wheeling a stroller while phubbing her baby.
verb (used without object), phubbed, phubbing.
2. to ignore a person or one’s surroundings in this way.

Origin of phub

2010-2014 First recorded in 2010-14; ph(one)1+ snub

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Today’s quote

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

– Ernest Hemingway

On this day

27 July – National Sleepy-head Day – a celebration in Finland in which the last person still in bed is woken by throwing cold water over them or by throwing them in a lake or river.

27 July 1836 – founding of Adelaide, South Australia.

27 July 1935 – Yangtze River, China, floods kill up to 200,000 people.

27 July 1940 – Bugs Bunny makes his debut in the cartoon, ‘Wild Hare’.

27 July 2012 – XXX Olympiad opens in London.