'phone

noun, verb — 2 senses

'phone

noun
1

UK, Dated Dated form of phone.

  • “I wonder if Miss Fulton has forgotten?” “I expect so,” said Harry. “Is she on the ’phone?”1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 127:

'phone

verb
1

UK, Dated Dated form of phone.

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.