Human Peacocking's definitions
When someone high in status brags about having a surprisingly mundane, lowly, stigmatized, crass, or boring hobby. Hobby examples include gardening, cooking, video games, arts and crafts, or some other activity typically associated with common people.
by Human Peacocking May 18, 2023
Get the Mundane hobby bragmug. When someone highlights how long they have been doing something (years playing a sport, years working in a company, years living in a neighborhood, years sober, overall age, etc). This is type of brag or showing off, highlighting the speaker's status based on the amount of time they've been around
There goes Thomas tenure bragging again about how he's been sober longer than anyone else at the party!
by Human Peacocking May 13, 2023
Get the Tenure bragmug. (verb)
To brag about the high amount of effort that one puts into an activity
To emphasize that you work harder than other people, sacrifice while others are consuming, and otherwise have put in more effort, likely leading to well deserved or earned success.
To brag about the high amount of effort that one puts into an activity
To emphasize that you work harder than other people, sacrifice while others are consuming, and otherwise have put in more effort, likely leading to well deserved or earned success.
He wrote some hustle bragging post on linked-in about he only sleeps 3 hours a day and works the rest
by Human Peacocking April 18, 2023
Get the Hustle Bragmug. To conspicuously show off how humble one is. To advertise that one doesn't have an ego, that one doesn't want or seek status or attention, doesn't care about fame/fortune, etc.
by Human Peacocking May 12, 2023
Get the Humility bragmug. by Human Peacocking July 16, 2024
Get the Vulnerability Bragmug. To brag, highlight, or bring attention to something that is stigmatized, lowly, common, or otherwise commonly unworthy of popular status. Examples include bragging about failures, past trauma, illnessed, hardships, etc.
There goes that super rich politician stigma bragging about how hard his childhood was in order to get further attention & sympathy.
by Human Peacocking May 11, 2023
Get the Stigma bragmug. Reference to some neurological study or brain imaging study or MRI study or 'the brain points light up here' study which has value implications about something super complex, but is used by a speaker to baffle their audience, claim expertise, and make a point that can't be refuted (unless the audience is neuroscientists).
Look at that speaker putting all that Neuro-Bullshit on the presentation screen at the start of their lecture in order to convince us that what they're saying about how people behave is right. They're not a neuroscientists and neither are we, why are they showing us brain photos?!
by Human Peacocking March 5, 2024
Get the Neuro-Bullshitmug.