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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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Blabsationism
Created by: nancyblue
Pronunciation: Hi facebook blabsationism cost him the job
Sentence:
Etymology: blab - to spill the beans sationism- information for shock effect or prurient intestest
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
Flappymouth
Created by: GreatRandew
Pronunciation: Fla-pi-mouth
Sentence: He had a bad case of flappymouth so nobody told him anything.
Etymology:
Unscrupulgate
Created by: egonschiela
Pronunciation: un-scru-pul-gate
Sentence: Phil's wife was constantly warning him not to unscrupulgate, as his boss had warned her that he might lose his job if he didn't learn to hold his tongue.
Etymology: From unscrupulous, (unprincipled) and promulgate, (to make public). Thus Phil was an unscrupulgator. Big teeth. To be avoided.
Censorchip
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sensərchip
Sentence: Candy believes in freedom of speech however with her boyfriend Charles, censorchip is required. She would love to have a censorchip planted deep in his brain to keep him from blurting out things she told him in private.
Etymology: censor (scrutinize, revise, or cut unacceptable parts from a book, movie, etc.) + chip (a tiny wafer of semiconducting material used to make an integrated circuit)
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
Tumbletongue
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)
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.
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)
Oversharing
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: oh-ver-shae-ring
Sentence: Evan messed up most of his date's by oversharing his non-existent sexlife.
Etymology: oval - circle with two centers. shearing - to remove wool from a sheep. (Or maybe it's a more logical composition...)
Comments:
chris - 2007-01-08: 13:54:00
good word
wordmeister - 2007-01-08: 22:50:00
Hey Chris, Which word did you like?