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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.
Verboticisms
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Foolips
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: fool-lips
Sentence: Cassie's botox injection made her lips look very sexy. At least that's what she thought. And so did her boyfriend! In fact, he was so excited that he went into a foolippian frenzy, and told everyone that she had just had her lips done. She was so mad that the next time they kissed, she bit the foolip's tongue right off.
Etymology: fool + lips
Ignoremp
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: ig nor emp
Sentence:
Etymology: ignorant + (without) empathy
Blabbergabble
Created by: goldenspeechy
Pronunciation: bla-bba-gabb-el
Sentence: Elaine waved goodbye to her friend Jane, then promptly pounced on the phone and blabbergabbled the details of Jane's vegetable fetish to the rest of their circle of friends.
Etymology: 'blabber'mouth + gabble. And it almost rhymes! Marvellous.
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COMMENTS:
It does kind of ryhyme! Good! - wordmeister, 2007-01-08: 22:49:00
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Priverblic
Created by: Hjason
Pronunciation: pri-verb-lic
Sentence: I can't believe how priverblic you were at the party when you told those guys about my love of belly button lint.
Etymology: private-verbal-public
Babblebot
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]
Myspaceism
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: my-space-ism
Sentence: Tina suffered from myspaceism in that she was not wise in the information that she should keep private.
Etymology: myspaceism comes from the fact that so many people don't seem to get that some things should not be shared on myspace.com
Indiscretin
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: in/dis/creh/tin
Sentence: He was such an indiscretin that his girlfriend considered having his tongue surgically removed - but she loved french kissing too much
Etymology: indiscretion + cretin
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COMMENTS:
Hey Jabberwocky, Just noticed this word today! Great one! - wordmeister, 2007-01-15: 10:04:00
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Jabbertalkie
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: jabərtôkē
Sentence: Like a movie you just can*t stop, Blurt will talk about whatever pops into his indiscreet little brain. With his brand of jabbertalkie there is no edit, no mute button on this public address system. Tell him a secret and people in the Australian outback will know about it within minutes.
Etymology: jabber: fast, excited talk that makes little sense + talkie (a movie with a soundtrack, as distinct from a silent film) A play off of Jabberwocky
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?