Verboticisms

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!

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Created by: sunny09

Pronunciation: pett-scribe

Sentence: I started screening my calls to avoid my friend calling hourly to pettscribe her doings, only to discover she now sends her pettscriptions to my inbox.

Etymology: petty + describe

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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

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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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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.)

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COMMENTS:

:-) - CharlieB, 2011-03-17: 04:03:00

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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)

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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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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)

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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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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

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