vagueblog

vagueblog

English

Etymology

vague +‎ blog

Verb

vagueblog (third-person singular simple present vagueblogs, present participle vaguebloging, simple past and past participle vaguebloged)

1. (Internet, neologism) To post deliberately cryptic statements on a social media or blogging platform.
   • 2015, Brook Becker, "New sexual health course based on relationships in Gossip Girl", The Collegian (University of Tulsa), 7 December 2015, page 14:

     "A lot of people have called us out. Subtweeting, vagueblogging, saying that The CW is instituting a program that is esoteric, abstruse, and worse, morally bankrupt."

   • 2019, J. C. Cheesman, Wish Fulfillment, unnumbered page:

     She longed to go to him, embrace him, and more -- but she knew he'd never allow it, so she contented herself vagueblogging about him and posting raunchy "jokes".

   • 2020, Anonymous, "The Gen Z Guide to Letting Him Go", The Greenleaf Review 2020 (Guilford College), page 41:

     use Tumblr to vagueblog

     about him, go back

     and delete every post

     you have tagged with his name.

Hyponyms

• subtweet (Twitter)
• vaguebook (Facebook)