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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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Omnithetic
Created by: arms61
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Terrance had to defriend all the omnithetics he knew; the painful retellings of every sad event in their lives drove him to depression.
Etymology:
Blogivia
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: blo giv i a
Sentence: Frank stopped reading Janes' online diary because it was packed full of blogivia
Etymology: from blog and trivia
Obsessarrate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: uhb - SESS - uh - rate
Sentence: Having always been a drama queen, Samantha believed that everyone else would find even the tiny details of her daily life intriguing. and she would continually osessarrate at great length with her boyfriend Samson in an effort to get him to promote her drama on his blog.
Etymology: Blend of obsess - (beset, trouble, or haunt persistently or abnormally) - and narrate - (to relate or recount events, experiences)
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - lumina, 2008-06-17: 10:37:00
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Elaboreate
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: ee LA bore ate
Sentence: Cindy likes to elaboreate on Twitter about her daily adventures. Her tweets include the quantity and consistency of her baby son's diaper contents, and how many ounces of formula he has eaten at each feeding. Apparently it's fascinating to SOMEONE, because she has 1492 "followers."
Etymology: elaborate (v.) + bore (v. or n.)
Expondologue
Created by: Ellemorpheus
Pronunciation: Ex-pon-dough-log
Sentence: Her mother launched a long expondologue, filled with details she neither remembered or cared for.
Etymology: Expond-expound ologue-monologue
Obcell
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ob/cell
Sentence: Jenny would obcell with her best friend. However, with the new all-you-can-talk plan on her phone, Jenny became totally obcelled, letting everyone know everything she did. This obcellsive behavoiur drove her boyfriend to purchase the call display and call block features for his phone.
Etymology: obsess + obsessed + cell
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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Mediocratic
Created by: WhiteRhino
Pronunciation: Mead-ee-ya-crah-tic
Sentence: She was completely Mediocratic the other day, I couldn't take it.
Etymology: Media, -cratic
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