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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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Compulsipwnage
Created by: nuemj88
Pronunciation: cum-pulse-se-pown-age
Sentence: I totally compusipwnaged that open internet test. He just got compulsipwned in that debate
Etymology: compulsi-a very strong impulse to do something pwnage-The verb to pwn (past tense: pwned, pwnd, pwn'd, pwnt, pooned) as used by the Internet gaming subculture, means to beat or dominate an opponent.
Autogossip
Created by: tbAG84
Pronunciation: or-tow-goss-ip
Sentence: If you tweet about brushing your teeth and again about flossing you may just be an autogossip.
Etymology: auto- to do yourself gossip- to painstakingly and prolifically recount of intimate details.
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COMMENTS:
You shouldn't auto be one! Good word. - Nosila, 2009-10-29: 00:38:00
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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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Blogorrhea
Created by: Nuwanda
Pronunciation: blog-a-ree-a
Sentence: Chad's penchant for chronicling every detail of his day was, at first, harmlessly channeled into his multi-volume journal, which lined three shelves of his library. The someone gave him a laptop. Suddenly, his explosive blogorrhea infected the lives of all his loved ones. It was bad enough that he felt the need to run his mouth constantly on his blog, but he insisted on calling people after each discharge to engage in color commentary.
Etymology: logorrhea: "excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness" combined with "blog"
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:
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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Twittirksome
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: twit-erk-sum
Sentence: Molly didn't realise how twittirksome her obsession with photographing her meal and posting it on Twitter before the starter even arrived had become. It was why Jim dumped her. Not that she really minded: she could now tweet every 30 seconds as she went through the five stages of grief, from denial to acceptance.
Etymology: Twitter (social networking site) + irksome (irritating, annoying)
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
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
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.)
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