mikroth's definitions

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

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

Tell me...

Bored response to current phrase-viruses :
'Know what..?' and 'How --- is that...?

A : 'Know what ? Four chix gave me their cellphone numbers at the club last night... How cool is that ?...'

B : 'Tell me...'(yawns)

by mikroth January 24, 2009

'Amabo!'

Latin for 'I shall love'which happens to be 'Obama' spelt backwards -- thus a rallying-cry for supporters...

'Hey man, what's this 'Amabo!' thing ?'

'Our funky classics prof. has taken to calling out 'Amabo!' when he comes into class, and we call back 'Obama'.. it starts the class with a laugh..

by mikroth January 22, 2009

infomaniac

Someone who showers you with useless information which you never asked for...

'The guy's such an infomaniac ! I just asked him for the train times, and he told me how many wheels each engine would have...'

'Darling, I said infomaniac not nymphomaniac...I don't want to hear all your day's office gossip straight after sex, puh-leaze..'

'Jeez, get me away from that infomaniac ... who wants to hear her business gossip at a chick party ?'

by mikroth October 2, 2007