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blogorrhea

noun

Etymology

Blend of blog + logorrhea, or possibly blog and diarrhea.

  1. derived from *srew-✻ — “to flow”
  2. derived from *leǵ-✻ — “to collect, gather”
  3. derived from λόγος — “word; speech; utterance”
  4. compounded as blogorrhea — “blog + logorrhea”

Definitions

  1. Excessive, compulsive, or stream-of-consciousness blogging, especially over trivial…

    Excessive, compulsive, or stream-of-consciousness blogging, especially over trivial matters.

    • It’s a surprisingly robust masthead, considering that the entire operation produces about 1,500 words a day—barely a peep in the days of unrelieved blogorrhea and Web-wide word bloat.
    • Not every blogger writes confessional kiss-and-tell posts or records the dinner menu—the blogosphere is not all blogorrhea and mystery meat.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blogorrhea. 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