Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Sickeningly sweet stories with a moral, often hiding slightly sinister undertones.
Etymologies
- Imitative of the retching that might be induced by stories of this kind. (Coined by Patricia Chapin, a member of the urban legends discussion mailing list of the Snopes website.) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In ordinary language, glurge is the sending of inspirational (often supposedly "true") tales that conceal much darker meanings than the uplifting moral lessons they purport to offer, and that undermine their messages by fabricating and distorting historical fact in the guise of offering a "true story.”
“The first is a kind of message commonly known as "glurge," too-sweet-to-be-true stories that give people a warm feeling or even chills.”
Valerie Tarico: Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science: Part 5 of 6
“(And doesn't the word "glurge" sound so pleasantly like vomiting?)”
“She's an opportunist, and her writing is the most nauseating kind of glurge, but it sells.”
“Her best stories have a decent combination of humour and nostalgic mourning; her worst are sentimental glurge.”
“For me it helps to make the onsluaught of photo glurge, dining updates, flair exchange, superpokes, game awards and TV spoilers more palatable.”
“We've all adjusted to meaningless event log entries, stupid glurge icons and pointless clicking through Microsoft menus, but my coffee pot!”
“Unlike a lot of the glurge-mails about dying children and cards, this one appears to be for real.”
“What sort of crazy lunatic thought that breathless bit of glurge was a good thing to put atop this story?”
“Worse, when glurge gets bounced around the net for years, it starts to pick up errors.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘glurge’.
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set phasers to...
you name the setting
I've tuned mine to be gentler and kinder
following suit is not mandatory but would be appreciatedcoddle, confuse, flummox, tap, furrow, instigate, invigorate, punnify, logical, must... act... be..., bowdlerise, laughing gas and 435 more...
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Any words List Its open!!
Im savin it for later
awesepoto
cooliest
sup
a-w-e-s-o-m-e
cool beans dude
hit me man
Rock on
Get a life dude
book timeweird, mongolian, 7457, saitin, toejam, aver, misanthrope, blandishment, cadge, fuschia, fuchsia, discotheque and 367 more...
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Fictional music genres
fudgepunk, whangboogie, electrogush, jizzbilly, glambient, queasy listening, chip shop, baroque'n'roll, prog folk, chemo, riant grrl, blingfolk and 584 more...
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Proposed new winter olympic sports
For the consideration of the IOC.
10-man bobsleigh, synchronised curling, snowball fight, pantsless curling, ice cricket, hair curling, ribbon curling, ice breakdancing, yodeling, synchronised cowb..., fullpipe, snowboard cross-s... and 38 more...
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Gee, that's hard and soft!
Words that contain both a "hard G" and a "soft G".
gauge, garage, gorge, gorgeous, gigantic, grudge, glurge, begrudge, garbage, grunge, engage, disgorge and 24 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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Words that delight me
tepid, perfunctory, trope, benign, inordinate, bewildering, ersatz, boon, delectable, apt, scuttlebutt, sequester and 398 more...
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delcj's Words
gavotte, perverse, tchotchkes, schmoop, divisural, triplicostate, albatross, snuggery, virgule, separatrix, solidus, tetrodotoxin and 116 more...
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Hiroe's Words
facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
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The Spectacle
DISTRACT, STARE, CONSUME
(repeat)gongoozler, television, sporting events, blockbuster, alienation, situationist, technocapitalism, media extravaganza, sex scandal, hypnotic behavior, fantastic visions, prime time and 164 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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repsac3's Words
idea, peace, music, tattoo, justice, skyhook, buntingotobointin..., left-handed smoke..., glurge, smiles, antidisestablishm..., corpulent and 42 more...
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Future of TV
A glossary of terms relating to the future of TV
bitcom, cot potato, dramality, dramedy, fanfic, frankenbite, glurge, irritainment, hammock, hathos, lifecasting, mobisode and 15 more...
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Not-so-beautiful words
Bad eyefeel and/or mouthfeel.
flatulent, phlegmatic, kumquat, crepuscular, gurgler, disgorgement, cryptorchid, feculent, offal, guerdon, glurge, severest
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tribblewing's Words
spirograph, fanthropology, ludology, animanga, japanimation, acafan, fandom wank, fen, felicific calculus, hedonic calculus, pleasure calculus, triage and 30 more...
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Words I learned on the Internet
Tweets
Looking for tweets for glurge.
pterodactyl What is glurge? Think of it as chicken soup with several cups of sugar mixed in: It's supposed to be a method of delivering a remedy for what ails you by adding sweetening to make the cure more appealing, but the result is more often a sickly-sweet concoction that induces hyperglycemic fits.
In ordinary language, glurge is the sending of inspirational (and supposedly "true") tales, ones that often conceal much darker meanings than the uplifting moral lessons they purport to offer or undermine their messages by fabricating and distorting historical fact in the guise of offering a "true story."
Many of us, it seems, cannot overcome the urge to glurge.
--Snopes.com
Feb 25, 2010
The_Word_Guy 1. Sentimental, mawkish or uplifting story that uses fabricated facts. Possibly a portmanteau of "gulp"+"purge" - the reaction to glurge. Jun 28, 2009
charlotte39 Glurge is the sentimental stuff, frequently made up that circulates by e-mail with messages that if you love God you will pass it on.
A sentence: I got a story about a woman getting a message that saved her life, and it turned out that the messenger was an angel. It was pure glurge. Apr 1, 2009
whichbe Sickeningly sweet stories with a moral, often hiding slightly sinister undertones. Etymology: "Imitative of the retching that might be induced by stories of this kind." (Wiktionary) Jun 13, 2008
reesetee Like the ones on the Hallmark Channel? Jul 24, 2007
oroboros Noun: Mawkishly sentimental story with facts fabricated to tug on the heart strings. Jul 24, 2007