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DEFINITION: v. To share a true but extremely embarrassing story about a close personal friend at the worst possible time. n. A moment of ill-timed honesty.
Verboticisms
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Humiliout
Created by: skeeterzirra
Pronunciation: hyue mill ee owt
Sentence: Chastity concluded her roast by humiliouting Hillary's torrid affairs.
Etymology: humiliation and outing
Gincerity
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: jin ser it ee
Sentence: During the wedding, the liquor flowed and so did the bride's lurid history. Her best friend and maid of honour, Stacy, felt compelled by gincerity to disclose the bride's annals of one night stands to the groom and everyone else in the large reception hall.
Etymology: Gin (strong liquor flavored with juniper berries)& Sincerity (moral soundness;honesty)
Trooble
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: troo-ble
Sentence: As a parish priest, and the ear of the confessional, reverend Tom was privy to everyone's dirty laundry. Unfortunately after a glass of wine or two, he would start to trooble, which wasn't so bad until he starting troobling on the church's new blog... And so now everyone's troobles, were googled.
Etymology: true + trouble
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COMMENTS:
In olden days he would have been known as a troobladour. - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-04: 15:00:00
The sacramental wine turned out to be sacrificial. - Mustang, 2008-06-04: 21:55:00
Good word, wm...it reminded me of that episode on Star Trek, The Trooble with Tribbles! - Nosila, 2008-06-04: 23:00:00
fantastic! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-05: 23:51:00
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Tattlesnake
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: tat tel snayk
Sentence: At Betsy's wedding, Monica was a real tattlesnake, when after 6 or 7 gins, her speech was about the bride's past conquests.
Etymology: Tattle (gossip;divulge confidential information or secrets) & WordPlay on Rattlesnake (sidewinder;desert snake which sneaks up on you and then rattles it's tail before striking)
Bestiefy
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: beh stiff eye
Sentence: to bestiefy can bring the beastie out in the bestie
Etymology: testify, bestie
Anabarrass
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: an/uh/bar/uhs
Sentence: Give Jenny a wedding, a microphone and three drinks and can anabarrass anyone she knows in the room, especially the bride.
Etymology: ANABARRASS - verb - from ANA (a collection of miscellaneous information about a particular person) + EMBARRASS (to make uncomfortably self-conscious)
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COMMENTS:
I like it. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-04: 18:22:00
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Truthinmouth
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: truth in mouth
Sentence: With blissful ignorance, Marylou continued to spout one truthinmouth after the other, before her sister stabbed her with the cake knife.
Etymology: foot in mouth + truth
Verbalfauxtrot
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: | ˈvə ː b(ə) ː fɒks ː trɒt|
Sentence: Juxt suppose you were at an opening night or that special occasion and someone accidentally gave you the microphone and somehow on opening your mouth, all that came out was verbalfoxtrots; you just pooed on your own doorstep.
Etymology: 'Verbal' -Spoken word- as in verbal diarrhea, mish mashed with 'Faux' (pronounced fox like maybe an idiot would do) as in 'Faux pas' - an embarrassing or tactless act or remark in a social situation - . And finally 'Trot' as in 'the trots' a colloquialism for diarrhea. Altogether meaning is of a verbal dance performed by a perhaps drunken, certainly temporary twit...verbal fox trot..call my bluff..that's a word baby
Tattlesnake
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: tat-tel-snake
Sentence: The maid of honor turned into a tattlesnake the minute she got a microphone in her hand and completely mortified the bride and everyone else at the wedding.
Etymology: tattle: to reveal through gossip + snake: describes a back-stabber or treacherous person
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COMMENTS:
clever - mweinmann, 2009-07-22: 19:53:00
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Awkwords
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ôkwərds
Sentence: Having been asked to say a few words at his best friend\'s wedding, they all turned out to be awkwords.
Etymology: awkward (uncomfortable or abnormal) + words (something that someone says or writes)
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COMMENTS:
awksidentally good word... - Nosila, 2009-07-23: 01:40:00
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Comments:
Today's definition is inspired by Miranda's moment of honesty during the Wedding Rehearsal scene in the Sex in the City ~ James
scrabbelicious - 2012-01-06: 01:44:00
Nice. The bride's annals inndeed.