humble brag

[Ben Zimmer]

"Humblebrag" won as Most Useful in the 2011 ADS WOTY voting, losing
out to "occupy" as the overall winner.

http://www.americandialect.org/occupy-is-the-2011-word-of-the-year

We covered it in the Spring 2012 installment of "Among the New Words"
and included a cite referring to the "NCIS:LA" usage:
http://bit.ly/ATNW87-1


On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Did anything happen with that nomination? There was an explanatory
> appearance of "humblebrag" in NCIS Los Angeles early in 2011 (which I
> noticed in an recent re-run).
>
> http://goo.gl/f7hAxF
> (February 23, 2011)
>> The "humble brag" references were hilarious. You know people who do
>> this if you think about it. I am absolutely calling them out using
>> this phrase next time.
>
> The two earliest UD mentions are from the same date, one directly
> quoting the show:
> http://goo.gl/ByT5VI
>> Person 1: The referee tripped over my feet last night AT THE LAKERS GAME.
>> Person 2: Wow. Thanks for the Humble Brag.
>
>      VS-)
>
> On 4/21/2011 3:55 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>> WOTY contender?
>>
>> ---
>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704570704576275320082913808.html
>> Whether we like it or not, and especially on social media, we're all
>> self-promoters, broadcasting even our quasi-achievements to every
>> friend and follower.
>> In response, Harris Wittels, a standup comedian and a writer on the
>> NBC series "Parks and Recreation," created a Twitter feed called
>> Humblebrag, which compiles examples of the offense...
>> [Wittels:] "Humblebrag is a Twitter account I started where I re-tweet
>> people who have committed flagrant humble brags. And a humble brag is
>> basically a specific type of bragging that masks the brag in a
>> faux-humble guise."
>> ---
>>
>> --bgz
>
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