tumblelog
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A microblog, especially one on the Tumblr microblogging service.
Example Sentences
- "For a concrete example, imagine you've created a Tumblelog, which is like a weblog but with many small posts of different types."
- "Tumblr, launched in March, allows users to publish digital files or brief blog posts to a single online location, dubbed a tumblelog."
- "Twitter and tumblelogs work equally well in this case. However, blogging and longer forms of writing are still important for communicating complex or longer ideas."
- "Sue Weston details her current artwork. “It’s called 'Magpie.’ I stand in Daley Plaza, jotting down the things people say into their cells. Then I post it on a tumblelog. Amazing, what people will tell a street full of strangers.”"
- "At the same time as maintaining activity on my tumblelog, I was communicating with other bloggers outside the group, collaborating with other teachers at my own institution, reflecting alone and reading both online and on paper."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *tūmōną Proto-West Germanic *tumbōn Old English tumbiander. Middle English tumben Middle English tumblen English tumble Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti Proto-Germanic *ligjaną Old Norse liggjader.? Middle English logge English log Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.? Proto-Germanic *bōks Proto-West Germanic *bōk Old English bōc Middle English bok English book English logbook English log English tumblelog From tumble + log, an early term for microblog, coined by Jonathan Gillette in 2005, based on the tagline of Leah Neukirchen's Anarchaia blog (“experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin’”).