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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 brag mug.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
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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 Brag mug.When someone brags about how long they've been doing something - It is generally an age/time related brag ("I've been doing this since you were in diapers!") but can also be the number of times they've done it ("this is my 15th time at burning man!"), etc.
We made it about 15 minutes into the neighborhood meeting before Tom started tenure bragging about how he's lived on that street the longest!
by Human Peacocking May 14, 2023
Get the Tenure brag mug.Neurological terms, photos of brains, or other brain scientific imagery, language, or concepts used to persuade an audience of people who are not neuroscientists.
The guy made a claim we were supposed to believe and then to convince us he just started spouting a lot of neuro-bullshit about the brain.
by Human Peacocking May 30, 2024
Get the Neuro-Bullshit mug.When a high status & otherwise vocally articulate person deliberately speaks in very plain, simple, folksy, or uneducated language.
Often used by politicians, super rich, or other high status people when they want to see close to a lower status audience
Often used by politicians, super rich, or other high status people when they want to see close to a lower status audience
Look at that fancy lawyer pulling the vocal yokle maneuver by speaking in super simple words to the jury as if he's not fancy, rich, & overeducated
by Human Peacocking May 10, 2023
Get the Vocal Yokle maneuver mug.When a high status person conspicuously eats at a lowly or common establishment with lots of media watching in order to get public attention for being a "man/woman of the people" and close to the popular masses.
It's a form of false humility
It's a form of false humility
by Human Peacocking April 12, 2023
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