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Definitions by Arborealizer

one who disses someone's experience of an "earthquake," pointing to real earthquakes that happen elsewhere.
Harry (Facebook post): OMG, an earthquake in Greenville, SC!
Dick (reply to post): An "earthquake"? LOLZ. That's wasn't an earthquake. When I lived in SF--now, THOSE were earthquakes.
Harry: Geosnob.
Dick: I'd rather be a geosnob than a geohypochondriac.
geosnob by Arborealizer August 26, 2011

geohypochondriac

a person who equates minor disturbances happening in one (typically, his or her) part of the country, with cataclysmic events that have happened or are happening in other parts of the world.
Harry (Facebook post): OMG, an earthquake in Greenville, SC!
Dick (reply to post): An "earthquake"? LOLZ. That's wasn't an earthquake. When I lived in SF--now, THOSE were earthquakes.
Harry: Geosnob.
Dick: I'd rather be a geosnob than a geohypochondriac.
geohypochondriac by Arborealizer August 26, 2011