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DEFINITION: v. To share information without understanding the difference between what should be public, and what others consider to be private. n. A person who doesn't know what not to say.
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Tattlecast
Created by: Guthlaf1
Pronunciation: TAT-el-KARST
Sentence: She could never see the problem with tattlecasting her husband's sexual habits.
Etymology: Tattle - related to 'tittle-tattle', being (petty) gossip Cast - from "broadcast", in this case being to relate information to anyone and everyone
Indisconfidiocy
Created by: Carole
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Her private life was broadcast to the world, through her boyfriends indisconfidiocy.
Etymology: indis/ indiscretion, confid/ confidential, idiocy/ stupipity
Furyloquendi
Created by: dstorm78
Pronunciation: Furee-low-kwen-dee
Sentence: He has the gift of furyloquendi, and can never shut up.
Etymology: From the latin/greek "furor loquendi" meaning the 'gift of gab' mixed in with a little fury, which would likely follow those with this problem.
Confidentyell
Created by: IanArcher
Pronunciation: as "confidential"
Sentence: When I showed up, Tim was confidentyelling about Clarice's performance in the bedroom.
Etymology: from "confidential" and "yell"
Dimwitter
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: dim-wit-uh
Sentence: Luckily, Lucy's friends now knew that she was an incorrigible dimwitter. Ever since Lucy had announced Beatrice's chlamydia to the neighbours, no-one shared their confidences with her.
Etymology: dimwit + witter (to chatter or babble pointlessly)
Flapout
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: flapout
Sentence: keep your mouth you ara a flapout
Etymology: out as in out and flap als in evrerything, flapout means just say anything you want anytime.
Secretell
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: see-kret-ell
Sentence: Flicka wanted to keep her birthmark in the shape of Bob Saget private knowledge, but after Roy did some drunken secretelling at the office party, that was impossible.
Etymology: secret + tell
Ignoremp
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: ig nor emp
Sentence:
Etymology: ignorant + (without) empathy
Splutterance
Created by: Maureen
Pronunciation: splutter - ance
Sentence: Don't tell Jamie anything you want kept secret. He has a bad case of splutterance.
Etymology: splutter - to blurt something out without thinking. ance- suffix denoting action.
Comments:
chris - 2007-01-08: 13:54:00
good word
wordmeister - 2007-01-08: 22:50:00
Hey Chris, Which word did you like?