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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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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!
Tweeterdum
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: twētərdəm
Sentence: Her user name is Tweet16. Whether on Twitter, her blog, her MyFace or SpaceBook account, she inundates the blathersphere with the mynutia of her life. She is the voice of tweeterdum. Does she have anything interesting to say? She could bore the stink off a skunk.
Etymology: Tweeter (A micro-blog post on the Twitter social network site, or the act of posting on it) + dumb (stupid) A play off of Tweedledum, one of the twins in Lewis Carroll\'s Through the Looking Glass.
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.
Interminarate
Created by: cohenarie
Pronunciation: in ter MIN er ate
Sentence: All day, while ostensibly working at her computer, she was interminarating over IM.
Etymology: interminable + narrate
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
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!)
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.)
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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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)
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