phub

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An instance of phubbing.
    — Researchers have found that phubs damage relationships and increase dissatisfaction and depression. About 25% of couples have fought over phubs (Goldberg, 2018).
动词 v.
  1. To ignore the conversation around oneself by focusing on one's smartphone. neologism,transitive
    — Phubbing has been theorized to provoke conflict in romantic relationships because the partner being phubbed feels unimportant and deprioritized compared to the digital content delivered through their partner's mobile phone.

词形变化

phubs present,singular,third-person phubbing participle,present phubbed participle,past phubbed past phubs plural

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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