Vote for the best verboticism.
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
Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...
You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.
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:
Communarrate
Created by: davedave
Pronunciation: /kəˈmyunnæreɪt/
Sentence: My sister communarrated all night about how she wanted to change her hair part.
Etymology: communicate < Latin 'commūnicātus' (past part. of commūnicāre) to impart, make common + narrate < Latin 'narrātus' (past part. of narrāre) to relate, tell, say
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
talk about splitting hairs! - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-17: 05:59:00
I like COMMUNARATE. I think a successful word should be pronounceable on the first go...
cleverness must be secondary. - metrohumanx, 2008-06-17: 14:23:00
----------------------------
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)
Neurothick
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: neuro tik
Sentence: she is always on the phone she has got a neurothick
Etymology: like in neuro and thick
Tweetsixteen
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: twētsikstēn
Sentence: Katie is just sure everybody is hanging on every facebook status update she makes. If she changes the color of her toenail polish, her world of friends knows about it. She recently stepped it up a notch by opening a Twitter account. Her account name is tweetsixteen despite the fact that she is 56 years old.
Etymology: tweet (a post on Twitter) + sixteen (one more than fifteen) Sweet sixteen (used to refer to the age of sixteen as characterized by prettiness and innocence in a girl.)
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
:-) - CharlieB, 2011-03-17: 04:03:00
----------------------------
Pantextual
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: pan-teks-tyoo-al
Sentence: "Rachel doesn't keep anything a secret on her blog. She is completely pantextual."
Etymology: "pan" as in all; text
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
Techknowledgme
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: tek - nal - edj - mee
Sentence: Lillian was great with techknowledgme. Using all of the tools at her disposal; her phone, laptop, voicemail, video game system, she made sure that everyone knew where she was and what she was doing at all times.
Etymology: technology, knowledge, me
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
good word - Nosila, 2009-10-29: 00:37:00
----------------------------
Tritexistoia
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: trayht-ig-zist-OI-uh
Sentence: Bob's tritexistoia was so ridiculously out of control that he spent the greater part of his waking hours telling,in the most minutissimic details, anyone who would listen to him of his plans to produce computerised models of the 555 sewing needles in his collection.
Etymology: TRITE. adj:lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale; banal; commonplace ideas. I.T: initialism for Informational Technology. EXIST: vb.:to have an existence, be extant; be alive, -nOIA suffix. In mild form "-oia" may consist in the "strange behaviour" exhibited in persons commonly called "cranks."
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
sounds like a legitimate ailment - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-17: 13:58:00
----------------------------
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