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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)
Squealerwheeler
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
Wordillious
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: word illy ous
Sentence: Gavin was so wordillious he needed his jaws wired shut.
Etymology: from word and billious as if throwing up words without a care.
Intimattletale
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: in-ter-mat-ul-tayl
Sentence: must you intimattletale at every dinner party, it embarrasses the bejeezus out of me.
Etymology: intimate, tattle-tale
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.
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)
Grindiscreet
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)
Comments:
chris - 2007-01-08: 13:54:00
good word
wordmeister - 2007-01-08: 22:50:00
Hey Chris, Which word did you like?