Talk:selly

Slang

@Fay Freak These look like celly ("prison cell"/"cellmate" and "cellular phone", respectively). If the spelling with s is attested it would be an {{alternative spelling of}}, I guess. - -sche (discuss) 22:26, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

@-sche Hm but in a meaning that is neither. Cellmate or cellphone do not make sense with the used prepositions and are not blown up. Maybe just “cell”, a room? Then the first is “in my pen, in my selly”. Not a prison cell though (if a prison cell is blown up by explosion then you do not complain “these fuckin git up chicks blow it up”). Fay Freak (talk) 22:34, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

@-sche Unless we miss a sense at blow up. There seems to be a “blow up” used with cellphone, this quote suggest so, or I cannot assign this usage to the currently given senses of blow up:

2016, FridayNite (lyrics and music), “Celly Blowing Up”:

Got my Celly blowing up
I dont wanna answer no
[…]
Who that on the phone

Then the DZ quote belongs to the “cellphone” sense, the other seems to mean a room. Fay Freak (talk) 23:09, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

Oh, yeah, sorry, I didn't realize how opaque the rest of the phrase could be. To blow up someone's phone is to send them a lot of texts/calls. To my surprise, when I googled "blowing up my phone" to look for examples of that phrase to mention here, I saw that we actually have an entry for blow up someone's phone, but I'm not actually sure whether that makes sense vs having a sense at blow up, given that "phone" can be so many other things (cell, cell phone, celly, iphone, etc). I'll find a discussion forum to bring that up in. - -sche (discuss) 01:43, 24 June 2019 (UTC)