Verboticisms

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: 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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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: blo giv i a

Sentence: Frank stopped reading Janes' online diary because it was packed full of blogivia

Etymology: from blog and trivia

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: tek-tryte

Sentence: If cell phones never existed, neither would techtrite. Theirs is a symbiotic relationship. Most techtriters are proud and therefore speak very loud on their cell phones so everyone can hear them.

Etymology: technology + trite

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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: 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: 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."

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COMMENTS:

sounds like a legitimate ailment - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-17: 13:58:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: epic/dem/ic

Sentence: She was stricken by the deadly epicdemic that compelled her to constantly think of herself as the only real person on the planet - everyone else was a fictional prop to her story

Etymology: epic + epidemic

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COMMENTS:

I thought I was the only real person. Maybe she's from a different planet... - wordmeister, 2007-04-11: 07:48:00

haven't you ever wondered why skin sometimes feels like paper - yikes!! -been reading too much Jasper Fforde - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-11: 09:01:00

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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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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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