Verboticism: Personalert

'I'm calling to tell you that I'm doing my toes.'

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.

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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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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.

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Cellebrity

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: sell eb rit eeee

Sentence: She's a cellebrity, get her out of hearing

Etymology: cell as in ncellphone celebtity as in ...who knows these days

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Pratemail

Created by: Elfie

Pronunciation: rhymes with hate-mail

Sentence: Jenny dictated yet another pratemail to her friend, as her hands were fully occupied.

Etymology: combined from "prate" - to blather on in annoying fashion, and "mail", a missive or message sent electronically or physically to another person.

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Pompoulog

metrohumanx

Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: pomp-o-log

Sentence: She felt the need to POMPOULOG me all day-by cellphone,email and telepathy. Pat POMPOULOGGED everyone on her address book. She's very thorough. I don't care about your trivial life. Stop this compulsive POMPOULOGGING now.

Etymology: POMPOUS-An inflated opinion of one's importance LOG- To record or document chronologically.

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COMMENTS:

metrohumanx I thought this word was easier to pronounce when reading on the fly. - metrohumanx, 2008-06-17: 14:15:00

I think pompoulog has a great rhythm to it - bookowl, 2008-06-17: 15:44:00

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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"

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Diarrheehaa

Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: die-ar-hee-ha

Sentence: Michael wondered if his celluar diarrheehaa was a byproduct of his forced constipsaytion at work, so he called one his friends and chat at his desk... This was a big mistake.

Etymology: diary + diarrhea

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everyone i know has this proplem. lol - willster, 2007-04-16: 21:21:00

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Twitarrate

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: twit-ar-rate

Sentence: Monica felt like she needed to twitarrate every boring detail of her boring life to anyone who cared to know what she was doing at every moment and how she felt about it. Sadly, no one really cared what she was doing and she blogged and twittered to no one.

Etymology: twitter: a free social commentary and micro blogging tool that describes what the tweeter feels or is doing at a particular moment + narrate: to give an account or description; to supply a running commentary

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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

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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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