mikroth's definitions

Urbanity

the sort of contrived, crass 'new word' based on some strained word-play, that has sadly become the norm on the Urban Dictionary...

'OK, what's the latest feeble, tortured Urbanity to show up onscreen today? What happened to real gritty slang ? Why has this site become a teenage playground ?'

by mikroth August 14, 2009

retro-cringe

When you remember, the morning after, something you said, wrote, did, didn't say, etc., the day before..

'I texted undying love to that chick at the party when I got home.. This morning, I'm having retro-cringe, bigtime..'

by mikroth February 10, 2009

whingefest

Now most common in chatgroups -- previously observed at the village well, later the parish pump : a group enjoying a good old communal moan about anything and everything.

'I've given up that chatline -- it's now just a whingefest about everything that's wrong with urban life...'

'I left the dinner-party when it developed into a whingefest about the government...'

'That bitch is a one-woman whingefest -- it makes me tired just listening to her endless moans...

by mikroth December 16, 2007

googletrawl

That rapid internet search you do to avoid exposing your ignorance..

Prof called my work 'desultory'... I had to do a quick googletrawl to find out whether that was a compliment or not ! Not !

by mikroth March 22, 2009

eye-skating

When you're reading a boring book out of duty, and your eye just slides over the words without engaging your brain..

'I tried to revise for the exam last night... but it was just eye-skating -- nothing stuck in the mind..'

by mikroth December 22, 2008

blogadoccio

A variant on 'bragadoccio', bragging and showing off -- here referred to the attempt to foist a conceited vision of yourself on chat sites, blogs, etc.

'He's quite reasonable to talk to -- but on the web, it's all blogadoccio...'

'She's a damaged person -- so she tries to compensate on the internet with blogadoccio about her tit size, conquests, etc...'

'I've stopped hitting personal websites -- it's all blogadoccio...'

by mikroth October 29, 2007

Barbra

an implied reference to the famed Streisand song 'The Way We Were'

'We broke up last week, but we're back now and it's all Barbra..'

'I faced going back home to meet the grizzlies after all these years, but we've made up and it's all Barbra...'

'jeez, honey, can't we drop this little mistake of mine, and be back to Barbra ?'

by mikroth October 24, 2007