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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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Reblogitate
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ɹiˈblɑdʒəˌteɪt/ note the soft "g"
Sentence: I spent a year reblogitating all the gory, trivial details of my life in a long stream of digital diary-a way back in the 1990's before the word "blog," when every one of us web diarists thought we'd invented the idea.
Etymology: from regurgitate + blog
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COMMENTS:
Ah, you were a pop-up blogger back then. BTW, love the word. Sounds great when you stick out your tongue to emphasize the "blah" sound in the middle. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-11: 13:20:00
Yeah it's funny... All this new stuff, new technology, and even new words, and it's really the same old stuff we have been doing forever... - wordmeister, 2007-04-11: 14:15:00
The difference being is that now there's a fad for showing off all this stuff to anyone willing to pay attention. - ErWenn, 2007-04-11: 17:17:00
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Nonsensicall
Created by: Johnnymac123
Pronunciation: non sense e call
Sentence: I recieved another nonsensicall from james today.
Etymology:
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!
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)
Personalert
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: PER-sun-uh-lyrt
Sentence: Madge felt compelled to provide all her friends with a highly detailed personalert whenever they got together causing some of them to go to great lengths to simply avoid her.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'personal' and 'alert'
Bloggerism
Created by: missprivate
Pronunciation: blo·gur'·ism
Sentence: Katie told me all about her Rice Krispies today; she has such a bad case of bloggerism.
Etymology:
Obcell
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ob/cell
Sentence: Jenny would obcell with her best friend about every detail of her life. 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 Joe, her boyfriend, to purchase the call display and call block features for his phone.
Etymology: OBCELL - verb - from - TO OBSESS (to dominate the thoughts, feelings, or desires of a person - in this case herself) + CELL ( as in phone)
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COMMENTS:
Ha! Hilarious! - lumina, 2008-06-17: 10:41:00
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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
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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Socialmeetiagh
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: so shal meet ee yaaaah
Sentence: When Chatty Cathy called Twitter Twila and Facebook Fanny to describe her latest ablutions, they raced to blog it first and let the world know. Do you really need this socialmeetiagh, Cathy? People thought you were boring before, but now they have it in writing. P.S. Get your 15 minutes of fame by doing something worthwhile!
Etymology: Social Media (blogging;Facebook, Twitter,etc); Social (marked by friendly companionship with others) & Meet (get together;interact)& Agh! (Make it stop! it's painful!)
Comments:
Verbotomy - 2007-04-11: 00:31:00
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!
metrohumanx - 2008-06-17: 14:25:00
MANECDOTAL is very good...kind of intuitive and rolloffatistic.
metrohumanx - 2008-06-17: 14:48:00
MONOTOLOG is another classic. Simple yet funny.
Verbotomy - 2009-10-28: 00:44:00
Today's definition was suggested by Alchemist. Thank you Alchemist. ~ James