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DEFINITION: To put your foot in your mouth by saying what you're thinking, rather that thinking of what your saying.
Verboticisms
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Flawpaw
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: flaw/paw
Sentence: Every flawpaw knows when he can't yank his pied from the palate of a pixie, it's high time he hoof it out of town.
Etymology: flaw + paw
Brainspill
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /'brAn-spil/
Sentence: It is sometimes difficult to tell the difference between actual, revealing brainspillage and simple linguistic tonguetrippage
Etymology: From brain + spill
Miscogloquence
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: miss-COG-lo-kwens
Sentence: The consequence of Marty's miscogloquence was that he lost his job. He just couldn't get his mouth and brain into the right gear and he blurted out what he really thought of his boss to his face.
Etymology: mis (wrong) + cognition (thought) + eloquence (fluent speech)
Heelatosis
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: heel-a-toe-sis
Sentence: Sue realized she had heelatosis immediately after she asked the blind client if it was bright enough in the room for him.
Etymology: heel- a cad, or a part of the foot, halitosis (bad breath, likely from sticking your foot in your mouth)
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COMMENTS:
Love it! - toadstool57, 2007-02-05: 07:46:00
Bad words equal bad breath? Yes! Good one! - wordmeister, 2007-02-05: 19:53:00
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Verbootin
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: verb/oot/in
Sentence: He was always guilty of verbootin - letting forbidden thoughts escape
Etymology: verboten- forbidden + boot + in
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COMMENTS:
Nice one! - BMott, 2007-02-06: 22:48:00
thanks BMott - porsche, 2007-02-07: 11:14:00
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Toejammin
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: toh/jam/in
Sentence: He couldn't stop himself from toejammin whenever he went to a party. It took him hours to get the taste of his foot out of his mouth
Etymology: toe + jammin
Mindburp
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: mynd-berp
Sentence: Julian's propensity to mindburp had made him a regular at the A&E department
Etymology: A burp is something embarrassing (and often involuntary) that comes out of your mouth. A mindburp is the same - but is caused by the brain rather than by the body.
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COMMENTS:
I like that. It makes more sense than a "brainfart," which describes something that needs describing, but doesn't describe it very well. - ErWenn, 2007-02-06: 01:16:00
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Hoofinmouth
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: Hoof-in-mouth
Sentence: Dave seemed to mess up again and again as he blurted out the first thing on his mind. The doctors told him he had a case of hoofinmouth disease.
Etymology: hoof, as in foot/ mouth
Freudrage
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: FROYD-raje
Sentence: Jim was fired after he ran into his boss at a boozy party and freudraged when the guy asked him how he liked his new assignment.
Etymology: Freud, as in Freudian slip, + rage via outrage, road rage and 'roid rage
Comments:
ErWenn - 2007-02-05: 02:06:00
Isn't that what a Freudian slip is?
Discoveria - 2007-02-05: 04:12:00
Yes, I think so too.
Bulletchewer - 2007-02-05: 07:10:00
No, it's not a Freudian slip, it's a Freudianblip mahahahaha...
ErWenn - 2007-02-05: 09:35:00
You know what _I_ think we need a word for? A word for a non-Freudian slip of the tongue. Granted, I don't think Freud thought that they existed, but enough people do that it'd be nice to have a word to differentiate the two situations.
Bulletchewer - 2007-02-05: 10:00:00
I like blaming Freud, the sex-obsessed legend deserves it! Plus, one word is enough, so, next verboticism please.
Hey ErWenn, Thanks for the suggestion! I will see if I can create a definition for that... ~ James