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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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Tweetsixteen
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: twētsikstēn
Sentence: Katie is just sure everybody is hanging on every facebook status update she makes. If she changes the color of her toenail polish, her world of friends knows about it. She recently stepped it up a notch by opening a Twitter account. Her account name is tweetsixteen despite the fact that she is 56 years old.
Etymology: tweet (a post on Twitter) + sixteen (one more than fifteen) Sweet sixteen (used to refer to the age of sixteen as characterized by prettiness and innocence in a girl.)
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COMMENTS:
:-) - CharlieB, 2011-03-17: 04:03:00
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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"
Pompoulog
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: pomp-o-log
Sentence: She felt the need to POMPOULOG me all day-by cellphone,email and telepathy. Pat POMPOULOGGED everyone on her address book. She's very thorough. I don't care about your trivial life. Stop this compulsive POMPOULOGGING now.
Etymology: POMPOUS-An inflated opinion of one's importance LOG- To record or document chronologically.
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COMMENTS:
I thought this word was easier to pronounce when reading on the fly. - metrohumanx, 2008-06-17: 14:15:00
I think pompoulog has a great rhythm to it - bookowl, 2008-06-17: 15:44:00
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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.
Blahg
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: blaaaahg
Sentence: Stephanie published the smallest details on blog which, in time, became a blahg for its level of minute and pointless detail.
Etymology: blah + blog
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COMMENTS:
Blabulous word! - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-11: 04:50:00
a blahst! - galwaywegian, 2007-04-11: 06:12:00
This one works best when you pointedly drag out the 'blah' part. "Blaaaaahg". - LonePaladin, 2007-04-12: 23:56:00
Great idea LonePaladin! - jedijawa, 2007-04-20: 17:10:00
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Sciencescription
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: science + scription like in description.
Sentence: actually the word "science" itself would have done the job, but - with less points ;) She was sciencescripting the always-ultra drexperience.
Etymology: science, scientific + description = sciencescription
Overblog
Created by: LonePaladin
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COMMENTS:
I wanted to use 'blogroll' because it would encapsulate the words 'blog', 'logroll' and 'bogroll' all in one. It's been used, though. Pity. - LonePaladin, 2007-04-12: 00:36:00
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Psychoblogosis
Created by: PythianHabenero
Pronunciation: sik-o-blog-o-sis
Sentence: Julia suffered from severe psychoblogosis and was unable to eat a meal or see a pretty butterfly without informing the Internet immediately.
Etymology: psychoneurosis + blog, with help from, well, the individual meanings of "psycho" and "-osis".
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