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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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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
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...)
Blabbergabble
Created by: goldenspeechy
Pronunciation: bla-bba-gabb-el
Sentence: Elaine waved goodbye to her friend Jane, then promptly pounced on the phone and blabbergabbled the details of Jane's vegetable fetish to the rest of their circle of friends.
Etymology: 'blabber'mouth + gabble. And it almost rhymes! Marvellous.
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COMMENTS:
It does kind of ryhyme! Good! - wordmeister, 2007-01-08: 22:49:00
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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.
Foolips
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: fool-lips
Sentence: Cassie's botox injection made her lips look very sexy. At least that's what she thought. And so did her boyfriend! In fact, he was so excited that he went into a foolippian frenzy, and told everyone that she had just had her lips done. She was so mad that the next time they kissed, she bit the foolip's tongue right off.
Etymology: fool + lips
Babblebot
Created by: EonaFrae
Pronunciation: bab-ul-bot
Sentence: The habitual babblebot, Trevor could overrule entire conversations with the sound of his own voice.
Etymology: Babble [To talk idly, irrationally, excessively, or foolishly] + Bot [a device that can perform routine tasks with minimal human intervention]
Comments:
chris - 2007-01-08: 13:54:00
good word
wordmeister - 2007-01-08: 22:50:00
Hey Chris, Which word did you like?