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DEFINITION: To share information without understanding the difference between what should be public, and what others consider to be private.
Verboticisms
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Blabsprech
Created by: frostycharlie69
Pronunciation: blab-shprek
Sentence: Arthur did not need to blabsprech the gory details of his mysterious rash, but he did anyway.
Etymology: "Blabbermouth" - Someone who does not know when to shut up. "Sprechen" - German for speak.
Privalic
Created by: Dustinisdean2007
Pronunciation: Priv-uh-lick.
Sentence: That guy over there is a total privalic. He told us how much his wife weighted and how much money she made in a month!
Etymology: "Priv" comes from "Private", "Lic" comes from "Public".
Gosslip
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: gahs-slip
Sentence: Instead of fighting her tendancies to gosslip, Meredith embraced them. She is now editor-in-chief at one of the biggest tabloid mags around.
Etymology: gossip + slip (slip of the toung, to let something slip, etc.)
Yamble
Created by: Rossco
Pronunciation: Yam-bull
Sentence: My girlfriend's parents are a couple of yamblers, for sure.
Etymology: Yammer + Ramble
Roundtalker
Created by: StigAllan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He is an annoying roundtalker
Etymology:
Troplangue
Created by: MikeV
Pronunciation: Tro-long
Sentence: Ugh! My husband is such a troplangue!
Etymology: From the French 'trop' and 'langue', meaning too much, and tongue.
Scuttleslutting
Created by: HALibut
Pronunciation: skuht-l-sluht-ing
Sentence: Jane's mom was a complete scuttleslut, readily embarrassing her daughter in front of strangers with lengthy and vivid stories of adolescent bedwetting and clumsiness.
Etymology: > scuttlebutting + slut
Ignorblurt
Created by: Kelly
Pronunciation: IG-ner-BLURT
Sentence: Jim had signed the confidentiality agreement without reading it, and got fired when he ignorblurted secret patent information.
Etymology: Ignorant (unaware) + Blurt (as in "to blurt out")
Gauchemouth
Created by: ubernym
Pronunciation: GOASH-MOUTH
Sentence: My boyfriend totally gauchemouthed our relationship at work today.
Etymology: Gauche, which is French and denotes one who is clumsy and otherwise socially inept, and mouth, a noun that is also a verb, which makes this even more fun: because a gauchemouth is a person who gauchemouths
