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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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Technoblab
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: TEK-no-blab
Sentence: The woman in front of me at the curry stand was so busy technoblabbing about buying curry that I finally had to tell her to hang up and pay the man. "Some guy just told me to hang up and pay", she continued, oblivious.
Etymology: techno (logy) + blab (run off at the mouth)
Overblog
Created by: LonePaladin
Pronunciation:
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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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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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Ittention
Created by: Erikv
Pronunciation: Eye-ten-shun
Sentence: After reading her intention post extolling the virtues of being in a Subway at that very moment, I knew I would never have to view the world through unenlightened eyes ever again.
Etymology: I from iPad, iPod etc. Plus attention
Egaboregrate
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ee/gab/or/grate)
Sentence: With the invention of facebook and mobile camera phones, Sally could egaboregrate ad nauseum, with pictures included, about every minute of her self consumed existence.
Etymology: e (as in email) + gab + grate (annoy) + bore + elaborate ( to express in great detail)
Pratemail
Created by: Elfie
Pronunciation: rhymes with hate-mail
Sentence: Jenny dictated yet another pratemail to her friend, as her hands were fully occupied.
Etymology: combined from "prate" - to blather on in annoying fashion, and "mail", a missive or message sent electronically or physically to another person.
Technomumble
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: tech-no-mum-ble
Sentence: Dave heard Jills technomumble coming from the office as she spoke her actions, trying to load programs on the computer.
Etymology: technology/mumble
Cellebrity
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sell eb rit eeee
Sentence: She's a cellebrity, get her out of hearing
Etymology: cell as in ncellphone celebtity as in ...who knows these days
Chronicletwopointoverkill
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: chronicle-2-point-O-verkill
Sentence: Twittering, blogging masses are frittering away their first lives with chronicletwopointoverkill. "Now I'm just logging into Second Life", "must blog this, my fingernail just broke in the keyboard" etc. etc.
Etymology: chronicle + 2.0 (from web2.0) + overkill
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COMMENTS:
Tune in tomorrow for Detail of 2 Geocities. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-11: 06:43:00
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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