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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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Blurticaria
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: BLURT-ih-car-ee-ah
Sentence: Jim's wife endured his blurticaria until he told her mother exactly how they broke the heirloom dining room table.
Etymology: blurt + urticaria (i.e., hives)
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)
Privishar
Created by: Logiedan
Pronunciation: Priv - ish - are
Sentence: That loudmouth is a real privishar, he tells everyone my secrets!
Etymology: Private + Share
Spazblab
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: SPAZ-blab
Sentence: After 2 drinks Bob was busy spazblabbing about our new takeover strategy to everyone.
Etymology: spaz (To be clumsy or inept) + blab (To reveal (secret matters) especially through indiscreet or unreserved talk)
Gossiblab
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: gah-sih-blab
Sentence: kids are usually better than adults at gossiblabbing, but that's not a very good thing for them.
Etymology: gossip+blab
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.
Misclose
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.
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
Opensecrete
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)
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
Comments:
chris - 2007-01-08: 13:54:00
good word
wordmeister - 2007-01-08: 22:50:00
Hey Chris, Which word did you like?