bangorrhea

English

Etymology

Blend of bang +‎ diarrhea, with bang as an alternate name for an exclamation point and diarrhea as an uncontrolled flow.

Noun

bangorrhea (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) The overuse of exclamation points in a failed attempt to make words seem more exciting.
   • Martha Brockenbrough, MSN Encarta columnist

     Checking in with a bad case of ‘bangorrhea’ — the official ‘grammedical’ term for exclamation-point overdose — is Kanye West. In a single blog post, West used 188 exclamation points. At least we think it was 188. We tried counting and the ordeal made our eyeballs twitch.

Translations

overuse of exclamation points

• French: bangorrhée f

See also

• logorrhea