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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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Mohbile
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: mow byle
Sentence: if he heard any mohbile from her and her mobile she was going to require a nu-bile.
Etymology: more bile, mobile
Manecdotal
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: man/ik/doh/tal
Sentence: A manecdotal person never tires of listening to their own accounts of their own life.
Etymology: manic + anecdotal
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COMMENTS:
MANECDOTAL is very good...kind of intuitive and rolloffatistic. - metrohumanx, 2008-06-17: 14:28:00
like it - galwaywegian, 2008-06-17: 18:43:00
Good one! - Nosila, 2008-06-17: 22:52:00
Excellent - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-19: 05:53:00
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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
Reblogitate
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ɹiˈblɑdʒəˌteɪt/ note the soft "g"
Sentence: I spent a year reblogitating all the gory, trivial details of my life in a long stream of digital diary-a way back in the 1990's before the word "blog," when every one of us web diarists thought we'd invented the idea.
Etymology: from regurgitate + blog
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COMMENTS:
Ah, you were a pop-up blogger back then. BTW, love the word. Sounds great when you stick out your tongue to emphasize the "blah" sound in the middle. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-11: 13:20:00
Yeah it's funny... All this new stuff, new technology, and even new words, and it's really the same old stuff we have been doing forever... - wordmeister, 2007-04-11: 14:15:00
The difference being is that now there's a fad for showing off all this stuff to anyone willing to pay attention. - ErWenn, 2007-04-11: 17:17:00
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Tecknowledgeme
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: teck-noll-idj-me
Sentence: i am now putting in my sentence to contextualize tecknowledgeme having just completed the pronunciation...which i think went quite well... and after i've done this i'm going to do the etymology..
Etymology: technology, acknowledge me
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COMMENTS:
brilliant sentence! - sunny09, 2007-04-11: 22:51:00
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Neurothick
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: neuro tik
Sentence: she is always on the phone she has got a neurothick
Etymology: like in neuro and thick
Communarrate
Created by: davedave
Pronunciation: /kəˈmyunnæreɪt/
Sentence: My sister communarrated all night about how she wanted to change her hair part.
Etymology: communicate < Latin 'commūnicātus' (past part. of commūnicāre) to impart, make common + narrate < Latin 'narrātus' (past part. of narrāre) to relate, tell, say
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COMMENTS:
talk about splitting hairs! - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-17: 05:59:00
I like COMMUNARATE. I think a successful word should be pronounceable on the first go...
cleverness must be secondary. - metrohumanx, 2008-06-17: 14:23:00
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Twittertwit
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: twit-er-twit
Sentence: Marsha loves Twitter. She will tell her followers about every detail of her life. Yesterday she proved how much of a twittertwit she is when she tweeted "I'm tweeting right now".
Etymology: twitter (Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service) + twit (an insignificant, silly, or bothersome 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