Meaning

1 senses

  1. (neologism)To ignore the conversation around oneself by focusing on one's smartphone.

Origin

Blend of phone + snub, coined by Adrian Mills at the McCann advertising agency in a brains

Blend of phone + snub, coined by Adrian Mills at the McCann advertising agency in a brainstorming session in collaboration with

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Forms

phubs, phubbing, phubbed, phubbed
Base formphub · to phub
3rd person singularphubs
Present participlephubbing
Past simplephubbed
Past participlephubbed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyphub
he, she, itphubs

Past simpleLesson

all personsphubbed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave phubbed
he, she, ithas phubbed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill phub

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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