New Word Thursday: 'Uroogling'
Uroogling [Uroo-gul-ling]
verb
1. To navigate to a website by typing its URL into the Google search engine, and then either clicking the 'I'm feeling lucky' button or, clicking search and clicking the top result (or appropriate result). Can be applied to other search engines, but fundamentally related to Google.
Also: Uroogle, and Uroogler.
''So I want to go to Dvorak.org/blog, so I just uroogle it and bam, I'm there!"
"Anyway, I'm uroogling for the mactake, and Google suggests 'Mistake'."
"He was uroogling for reuters.com when by some freak internet crosstalk phenomenon, he ended up on the SBNP website. Imagine our disgust!"
ORIGIN Modern English : Derived from 'url' ('ur'): the Uniform Resource Locator, and 'googling' ('oogling'), to google for something.
verb
1. To navigate to a website by typing its URL into the Google search engine, and then either clicking the 'I'm feeling lucky' button or, clicking search and clicking the top result (or appropriate result). Can be applied to other search engines, but fundamentally related to Google.
Also: Uroogle, and Uroogler.
''So I want to go to Dvorak.org/blog, so I just uroogle it and bam, I'm there!"
"Anyway, I'm uroogling for the mactake, and Google suggests 'Mistake'."
"He was uroogling for reuters.com when by some freak internet crosstalk phenomenon, he ended up on the SBNP website. Imagine our disgust!"
ORIGIN Modern English : Derived from 'url' ('ur'): the Uniform Resource Locator, and 'googling' ('oogling'), to google for something.
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