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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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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
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.)
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COMMENTS:
:-) - CharlieB, 2011-03-17: 04:03:00
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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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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
Monotolog
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: moh noh toh logg
Sentence: Her monotolog was rudely interrupted by the sound of obvious snoring before she had even got as far as describing her lunch appointment.
Etymology: monolog monotony
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COMMENTS:
another funny one - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-17: 13:58:00
GREAT! Simple, funny and concise. - metrohumanx, 2008-06-17: 14:49:00
Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-18: 06:45:00
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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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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
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COMMENTS:
good word - Nosila, 2009-10-29: 00:37:00
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Itsallaboast
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: its all a boast
Sentence: It was the sixth time Marcia called me in one day. I looked at my watch and told myself I was only going to give her 5 minutes this time knowing that if I stayed on any longer, she was going to start itsallaboasting again. I mean I love her...but do I really need to know that she just dreamt that she'd was awake?! "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!"
Etymology: Derived from the illness Itsallaboutme an illness whose main symptom is boasting.
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
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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
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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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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