Mir ist der Ausdruck bis gerade eben noch nicht bewusst untergekommen, das damit beschriebene Phänomen ist dagegen alltäglich zu erleben oder zu beobachten ...

... in den Online-Ausgaben von Duden und DWDS ist es (noch) nicht zu finden ... in einigen englischen Wöbü schon, wobei das im Collins wohl noch ein vorläufiger Eintrag zu sein scheint :

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...

 phubbing

noun [ U ]

uk/ˈfʌb.ɪŋ/   us /ˈfʌb.ɪŋ/

the act of ignoring someone you are with and giving attention to your mobile phone instead:

Researchers found almost half of relationships are affected by phubbing.

What is phubbing and could it be hurting your relationship? ...

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/submission/...

 Phubbing

New Word Suggestion

The act of snubbing some one in a social setting by looking at your phone instead paying attention

Additional Information

We were talking about my day until he just phubbed me

Submitted By: ashley.farr.35 - 17/07/2012 ...

Slightly OT, but weirdly interesting.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play...

It's not the usual way words get born.

In May 2012, Australia's Macquarie Dictionary and the McCann advertising agency assembled a group of language experts to name a phenomenon common in the era of the smartphone. They dubbed the phenomenon phubbing, and defined it as "the act of snubbing someone in a social setting by looking at your phone instead of paying attention."

Also slightly OT ...

Snubbing is usually done consciously, “in a way,” as OED puts it, “calculated to repress or mortify.”

No doubt one can snub someone by looking at one’s phone. But “phubbing” in my experience of it as an observer often appears to betray a knuckle-dragging lack of “calculation” (aka thoughtfulness) in regard to others, rather than a desire to “repress or mortify.” Maybe a valuable distinction is being smudged with this (excuse the pun) phony word?

Since I've not heard or read the word before seeing this thread this morning, I wonder whether the word is used much IRL. It strikes me as one of those neologisms like "Smombie" a few years ago that is made up and used by journalists, advertisers, dictionary makes etc., but they're also more or less the only ones who ever use these words in an attempt to make them 'a thing'.

#4: Ich kann keinen qualifizierten Kommentar zu Phubbing abgeben, nie gehört. Aber Smombie ist durchaus im Gebrauch. Ich nutze das Wort aktiv, es gibt ein Kinderlied von Bummelkasten, dessen Video schon vor ein paar Jahren in der Sendung mit der Maus gezeigt wurde. Woher auch immer das Wort gekommen sein mag, es wird nicht nur von Jounalisten und Werbemachern verwendet.