Verboticisms

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.

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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.

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Created by: sweetclarity

Pronunciation: t-ah-sit-less.

Sentence: That's tacitless!

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Created by: Hjason

Pronunciation: pri-verb-lic

Sentence: I can't believe how priverblic you were at the party when you told those guys about my love of belly button lint.

Etymology: private-verbal-public

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: diss klose

Sentence: Henry did not realize that his dissclose of his wife's weight to everyone put him this close to spousecide!

Etymology: Diss (say bad, disrespectful things) & Disclose (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)

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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)

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Created by: sirshade

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Created by: nancyblue

Pronunciation: Hi facebook blabsationism cost him the job

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Etymology: blab - to spill the beans sationism- information for shock effect or prurient intestest

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Created by: Stump

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: jabərtôkē

Sentence: Like a movie you just can*t stop, Blurt will talk about whatever pops into his indiscreet little brain. With his brand of jabbertalkie there is no edit, no mute button on this public address system. Tell him a secret and people in the Australian outback will know about it within minutes.

Etymology: jabber: fast, excited talk that makes little sense + talkie (a movie with a soundtrack, as distinct from a silent film) A play off of Jabberwocky

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