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DEFINITION: v. To compulsively describe, in excruciating detail, the minute events of one's everyday life as it happens; especially when assisted by modern information technology systems. n. A person who feels compelled to "share" every detail of their life, with everyone.
Verboticisms
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Blomit
Created by: CanMon
Pronunciation:
Sentence: You can tell when Susan has had a million insignificant things occur in her day--her laptop is covered in blomit.
Etymology: Combination of vomit and blog.
Tweeterdum
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: twētərdəm
Sentence: Her user name is Tweet16. Whether on Twitter, her blog, her MyFace or SpaceBook account, she inundates the blathersphere with the mynutia of her life. She is the voice of tweeterdum. Does she have anything interesting to say? She could bore the stink off a skunk.
Etymology: Tweeter (A micro-blog post on the Twitter social network site, or the act of posting on it) + dumb (stupid) A play off of Tweedledum, one of the twins in Lewis Carroll\'s Through the Looking Glass.
Epicdemic
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: epic/dem/ic
Sentence: She was stricken by the deadly epicdemic that compelled her to constantly think of herself as the only real person on the planet - everyone else was a fictional prop to her story
Etymology: epic + epidemic
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COMMENTS:
I thought I was the only real person. Maybe she's from a different planet... - wordmeister, 2007-04-11: 07:48:00
haven't you ever wondered why skin sometimes feels like paper - yikes!! -been reading too much Jasper Fforde - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-11: 09:01:00
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Chronicletwopointoverkill
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: chronicle-2-point-O-verkill
Sentence: Twittering, blogging masses are frittering away their first lives with chronicletwopointoverkill. "Now I'm just logging into Second Life", "must blog this, my fingernail just broke in the keyboard" etc. etc.
Etymology: chronicle + 2.0 (from web2.0) + overkill
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COMMENTS:
Tune in tomorrow for Detail of 2 Geocities. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-11: 06:43:00
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Pantextual
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: pan-teks-tyoo-al
Sentence: "Rachel doesn't keep anything a secret on her blog. She is completely pantextual."
Etymology: "pan" as in all; text
Interminarate
Created by: cohenarie
Pronunciation: in ter MIN er ate
Sentence: All day, while ostensibly working at her computer, she was interminarating over IM.
Etymology: interminable + narrate
Twitarrate
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: twit-ar-rate
Sentence: Monica felt like she needed to twitarrate every boring detail of her boring life to anyone who cared to know what she was doing at every moment and how she felt about it. Sadly, no one really cared what she was doing and she blogged and twittered to no one.
Etymology: twitter: a free social commentary and micro blogging tool that describes what the tweeter feels or is doing at a particular moment + narrate: to give an account or description; to supply a running commentary
Egaboregrate
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ee/gab/or/grate)
Sentence: With the invention of facebook and mobile camera phones, Sally could egaboregrate ad nauseum, with pictures included, about every minute of her self consumed existence.
Etymology: e (as in email) + gab + grate (annoy) + bore + elaborate ( to express in great detail)
Meopics
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: mee/op/ics
Sentence: Meopics is the word according to me
Etymology: me + myopics
Pratemail
Created by: Elfie
Pronunciation: rhymes with hate-mail
Sentence: Jenny dictated yet another pratemail to her friend, as her hands were fully occupied.
Etymology: combined from "prate" - to blather on in annoying fashion, and "mail", a missive or message sent electronically or physically to another person.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Alchemist.
Thank you Alchemist! ~ James
lumina - 2008-06-17: 10:39:00
Funny!
lumina - 2008-06-17: 10:40:00
Great! Love it!
MANECDOTAL is very good...kind of intuitive and rolloffatistic.
MONOTOLOG is another classic. Simple yet funny.
Today's definition was suggested by Alchemist. Thank you Alchemist. ~ James