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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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Digeratedium
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /dij-uh-rah-TEE-dee-um/
Sentence: Ken and Julie would blog about everything — detailing all of the digeratedium of their lives that nobody else really cares about. When they got engaged, they started a website, and wrote about all the minutiae of their wedding planning. Then they started a new blog when they got a cat, and posted pictures and stories about what it did that day, and what it might be saying if it could talk. Now they have a baby. Reading the daily pregnancy updates were mind-numbing, but the pages of text they'd write each time baby Ryan spit up or filled his diaper were enough to induce a coma.
Etymology: Digerati - people who often use, or are knowledgeable about, digital technologies (from dig[ital] + [lit]erati "computer literate") + Tedium - the quality or state of being wearisome; irksomeness; tedious (from Latin, tædium "weariness, disgust")
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COMMENTS:
digerati is a new one on me, and it works well with this. - stache, 2008-06-17: 06:21:00
To me too; nice word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-19: 05:38:00
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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
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
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:
Manecdotal
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: man/ik/doh/tal
Sentence: A manecdotal person never tires of listening to their own accounts of their own life.
Etymology: manic + anecdotal
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COMMENTS:
MANECDOTAL is very good...kind of intuitive and rolloffatistic. - metrohumanx, 2008-06-17: 14:28:00
like it - galwaywegian, 2008-06-17: 18:43:00
Good one! - Nosila, 2008-06-17: 22:52:00
Excellent - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-19: 05:53:00
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Mediocratic
Created by: WhiteRhino
Pronunciation: Mead-ee-ya-crah-tic
Sentence: She was completely Mediocratic the other day, I couldn't take it.
Etymology: Media, -cratic
Yackberry
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: yak-bair-eee
Sentence: Sue is such a yackberry that she felt the need to call and tell me how many licks it was taking to get the the center of her tootsie pop.
Etymology: yack, blackberry
Diaryhhea
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dya ree ya
Sentence: Dahlia talked on the phone all day about nothing. But then with the advent of the Internet...she carried her blethering unto the rest of the world. The trivial details of her boring life were best expressed on her blog, called "Dahlia Diaryhhea". Her mental constipation also included poor spelling. The one thing positive thing was that Dahlia Diaryhhea made others appreciate how exciting their own lives were by comparison.
Etymology: Diary (daily bog or log of one's activities, no matter how trivial) & Diarrhea (runny bowels; also verbal diarrhea is when people talk way too much...they run on and on).
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COMMENTS:
funny and clever - mweinmann, 2009-10-29: 08:54:00
Good one - karenanne, 2009-10-30: 09:35:00
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Bloggerize
Created by: sarabeth20
Pronunciation: blohg-ur-eyes
Sentence: She has a tendency to bloggerize every little thing that pops into her head.
Etymology:
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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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