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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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Techtrite
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: tek-tryte
Sentence: If cell phones never existed, neither would techtrite. Theirs is a symbiotic relationship. Most techtriters are proud and therefore speak very loud on their cell phones so everyone can hear them.
Etymology: technology + trite
Digeratedium
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /dij-uh-rah-TEE-dee-um/
Sentence: Ken and Julie would blog about everything — detailing all of the digeratedium of their lives that nobody else really cares about. When they got engaged, they started a website, and wrote about all the minutiae of their wedding planning. Then they started a new blog when they got a cat, and posted pictures and stories about what it did that day, and what it might be saying if it could talk. Now they have a baby. Reading the daily pregnancy updates were mind-numbing, but the pages of text they'd write each time baby Ryan spit up or filled his diaper were enough to induce a coma.
Etymology: Digerati - people who often use, or are knowledgeable about, digital technologies (from dig[ital] + [lit]erati "computer literate") + Tedium - the quality or state of being wearisome; irksomeness; tedious (from Latin, tædium "weariness, disgust")
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COMMENTS:
digerati is a new one on me, and it works well with this. - stache, 2008-06-17: 06:21:00
To me too; nice word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-19: 05:38:00
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Meopics
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: mee/op/ics
Sentence: Meopics is the word according to me
Etymology: me + myopics
Itsallaboast
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: its all a boast
Sentence: It was the sixth time Marcia called me in one day. I looked at my watch and told myself I was only going to give her 5 minutes this time knowing that if I stayed on any longer, she was going to start itsallaboasting again. I mean I love her...but do I really need to know that she just dreamt that she'd was awake?! "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!"
Etymology: Derived from the illness Itsallaboutme an illness whose main symptom is boasting.
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)
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)
Blooger
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: bloo-ger
Sentence: Ashely was a compulsive twitterer, blogger and videographer. If she did it, she documented it. No detail was ever spared. And no thought was ever given. Unfortunately, she was also a compulsive nose picker, which meant that her bloogers were full of boogers.
Etymology: blog + booger
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - lumina, 2008-06-17: 10:37:00
Thanks lumina! You got your comment in, before I even bloogered about it! - wordmeister, 2008-06-17: 11:09:00
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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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Webbore
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: web + bore
Sentence: I don't read his blog, it's just a webbore about what happened to him every single day.
Etymology: Guess!
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