Verboticisms

Created by: Robke22

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Created by: chris

Pronunciation: tumble-tung

Sentence: Rupert's propensity to tumbletongue made him the first guy to be invited into the hitherto all-girl office gossip group

Etymology: tumble (to spill out uncontrollably) + tongue (to give voice to)

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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

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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)

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Created by: tinman

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Etymology: Latin for without thought

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: miss-CLOSE

Sentence: She misclosed everything I told her about my sex life!

Etymology: It's like "disclose." Only with "mis" instead.

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Created by: EonaFrae

Pronunciation: bab-ul-bot

Sentence: The habitual babblebot, Trevor could overrule entire conversations with the sound of his own voice.

Etymology: Babble [To talk idly, irrationally, excessively, or foolishly] + Bot [a device that can perform routine tasks with minimal human intervention]

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: grin dis kreet

Sentence: Ralph had no class. How his poor wife Rhonda put up with him so long, no one knew. Ralph could not only not keep a secret, he felt the need to laugh about everything private in their lives. He chortled over their finances to friends; jested about his wife's cooking, her weight, her mother,and he guffawed over their sex life. He was grindiscreet. One day Rhonda blew a gasket, choked him with the dog's leash and ran off with Vinny, the pool boy because Vinny was vindiscreet.

Etymology: Grin (a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows amusement) & Indiscreet (lacking discretion; injudicious;good judgment or sense;revealing too much information)

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Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: sqweeler/wheeler

Sentence: Known in polite circles as a "squealerwheeler", the capricious Carpet Knight couldn't wait to reveal his most egregious escapades over a gin and tonic.

Etymology: squealer: one who reveals things best left in the boudoir or the boardroom + wheeler: a mover and shaker

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: O-pen-se-CREET

Sentence: His opensecretism was his downfall, causing his friends to stop confiding in him.

Etymology: open secret (something generally known) + secrete (discharge, emanate, give off)

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