Thursday, March 15, 2007

New Word Thursday: 'interwarble'

Interwarble [Inter-warble]
verb | adverb
1. The persistent (but well meaning) reminding or nagging, via an electronic medium such as Instant Messenger or Email:
'I have 40 new IM messages from mum. She's started to interwarble about my job interview.'
'Yes Dad, you've begun interwarbling, you big interwarbler. Us country folk don't go running to the doctor with every sneeze, sniffle or broken bone!'



ORIGIN Modern English : Derived from the word internet ('inter') and warble ('warble') which is characteristic of nagging behavior.

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