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blogebrity

noun

Etymology

Blend of blog + celebrity.

  1. derived from celēbritās
  2. derived from celebrite
  3. inherited from celebritē
  4. compounded as blogebrity — “blog + celebrity”

Definitions

  1. A well-known or popular blogger.

    • It's been quite a turnaround for Hilton, who said that before becoming a blogebrity he had been in a deep depression and last year filed for bankruptcy and was fired from a job at a celebrity weekly magazine.

  2. The state or phenomenon of fame achieved through blogging.

    • Given that there are more than 80 million blogs out there, according to the Web-tracking site Technorati, with roughly 15.5 million of them active, "blogebrity" is quite a bizarre phenomenon anyway.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blogebrity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA