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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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Technobiograph
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: tehk-noh-BYE-oh-graf
Sentence: Alex technobiographed the assembly of his four-course meal whilst Jenny silently snoozed on the other end of the line.
Etymology: techno- + biograph(y)
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
Sadnauseam
Created by: pinwheel
Pronunciation: sad/naws/ee/am
Sentence: Oliver's irritating habit of collecting all of his toe nail clippings and then displaying photographs of them on his blog was equalled only by his sadnauseam descriptions of when each one was cut.
Etymology: sad (no really... very sad!) + ad nauseam (to a sickening degree)
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COMMENTS:
It's "ad nauseam", just so you know. But good one nonetheless. :) - PythianHabenero, 2007-04-11: 08:36:00
Thanks Pyth', I will edit. I was in a bit of a rush this morning, had to catch a bus at 9.48 and couldn't find enough change... ooops going on sadnauseam again... - pinwheel, 2007-04-11: 10:27:00
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Meopics
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: mee/op/ics
Sentence: Meopics is the word according to me
Etymology: me + myopics
Diarrheehaa
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: die-ar-hee-ha
Sentence: Michael wondered if his celluar diarrheehaa was a byproduct of his forced constipsaytion at work, so he called one his friends and chat at his desk... This was a big mistake.
Etymology: diary + diarrhea
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COMMENTS:
everyone i know has this proplem. lol - willster, 2007-04-16: 21:21:00
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Nanarrate
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: nan'ə-rāt'
Sentence: Hearing Joyce nanarrate the removal of her toe jam, ear wax and naval lint for 45 minutes left Todd with a numb cell-phone ear and an urge to smack someone.
Etymology: nano, prefix for billionth, used to describe technology on the microscopic, even molecular, level; narrate, to tell or relate.
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COMMENTS:
Clever bend. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-18: 06:46:00
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Blogorrhea
Created by: Nuwanda
Pronunciation: blog-a-ree-a
Sentence: Chad's penchant for chronicling every detail of his day was, at first, harmlessly channeled into his multi-volume journal, which lined three shelves of his library. The someone gave him a laptop. Suddenly, his explosive blogorrhea infected the lives of all his loved ones. It was bad enough that he felt the need to run his mouth constantly on his blog, but he insisted on calling people after each discharge to engage in color commentary.
Etymology: logorrhea: "excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness" combined with "blog"
Banalcast
Created by: zrotv
Pronunciation: bə-năl-kăst
Sentence: I would appreciate the 'blogosphere' more if it wasnt abused endlessly by peoples banalcasts on their day-to-day. (informal synonyms: tritecast, borecast)
Etymology: banal (Drearily commonplace and often predictable; trite) + broadcast (To send out or communicate, especially via modern IT)
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