Elvira Pepper's definitions

Blubberärger

The rage you feel when liquid refuses to pour smoothly and instead comes out in choking spurts, splashes, or not at all (caused by air fighting to get in as liquid tries to get out). Formed from the German Blubbern “to gurgle, bubble” plus Ärger “annoyance, anger.”

I went to water the Christmas tree, Blubberärger hit, and suddenly it looked like the cat pissed all over the presents.

by Elvira Pepper September 21, 2025

Office Shopping

to take office supplies for personal use (i.e. to steal)

Joannie needed some extra packing tape for home so the next day at work, she went office shopping.

by Elvira Pepper February 7, 2017

VBR

VBR stands for "Verify Before Retweeting." Many Twitter users retweet information that is false but convince those who agree with them to believe the false information and they themselves retweet is true, thus leading to further retweeting. VBR is a shorthand way to remind or admonish those who retweet false information that they should verify the information before retweeting it.

Herbert retweeted "Donald Trump has resigned!" Roberta replied "Not true. VBR!"

by Elvira Pepper August 27, 2017

too clever by half

to be too confident of your own intelligence in a way that annoys other people. (British variant of "too smart by half.")

'Too clever by half' was how one former teacher described him.

by Elvira Pepper August 7, 2011