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DEFINITION: v. To share a true but extremely embarrassing story about a close personal friend at the worst possible time. n. A moment of ill-timed honesty.
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Bantersnitch
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: BAN - ter - snich
Sentence: In her mindless and sometimes treacherous manner, Laverne once again found a most inopportune time to bantersnitch very revealing personal and private secrets about her best friend, Constance.
Etymology: Blend of 'banter' (idle talk) and 'snitch' (tattle). Also a play on 'bandersnatch': a person of uncouth or unconventional habits, attitudes, etc., esp. one considered a menace, nuisance, or the like.
Stabbatruth
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Stab-a-truth
Sentence: Jealousgina finally had her opportunity to spew a long winded stabbatruth at Kay's wedding toast.
Etymology: Stab- to jab or a sudden sharp feeling. A truth- a judgment, proposition, or idea that is true or accepted as true.
Awkwords
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ôkwərds
Sentence: Having been asked to say a few words at his best friend\'s wedding, they all turned out to be awkwords.
Etymology: awkward (uncomfortable or abnormal) + words (something that someone says or writes)
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COMMENTS:
awksidentally good word... - Nosila, 2009-07-23: 01:40:00
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Distake
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: distāk
Sentence: Letting Joan have a mic at the gathering was a big distake. Maybe it was an tacky to have a bull roast wake but Joan's alcohol-enhanced "roast" of the deceased was beyond tasteless. The silence was deafening.
Etymology: dis (act or speak in a disrespectful way toward) + mistake (an action or judgment that is misguided or wrong)
Informortify
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: INFORM+mORTIFY
Sentence: After she had too much to drink, her loose lips informortified all her friends.
Etymology: INFORM+mORTIFY
Confidunce
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: kon - fe - duns
Sentence: Lisa took the podium at Margie's retirement party and proved to be a confidunce. In her speech, she regaled the attendees with Margie's true opinions of the people she had worked with, how she really hated the company and how many things she had stolen from inventory over the years. Because she told her stories in a "comical" way, she was ignorant of the fact that she had humiliated Margie.
Etymology: confidence(a secret that is confided or entrusted to another), dunce (a stupid person)
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COMMENTS:
Good thing Margie was retiring anyway... - Nosila, 2009-07-23: 01:38:00
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Verbalfauxtrot
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: | ˈvə ː b(ə) ː fɒks ː trɒt|
Sentence: Juxt suppose you were at an opening night or that special occasion and someone accidentally gave you the microphone and somehow on opening your mouth, all that came out was verbalfoxtrots; you just pooed on your own doorstep.
Etymology: 'Verbal' -Spoken word- as in verbal diarrhea, mish mashed with 'Faux' (pronounced fox like maybe an idiot would do) as in 'Faux pas' - an embarrassing or tactless act or remark in a social situation - . And finally 'Trot' as in 'the trots' a colloquialism for diarrhea. Altogether meaning is of a verbal dance performed by a perhaps drunken, certainly temporary twit...verbal fox trot..call my bluff..that's a word baby
Tattlesnake
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: tat-tel-snake
Sentence: The maid of honor turned into a tattlesnake the minute she got a microphone in her hand and completely mortified the bride and everyone else at the wedding.
Etymology: tattle: to reveal through gossip + snake: describes a back-stabber or treacherous person
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COMMENTS:
clever - mweinmann, 2009-07-22: 19:53:00
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Gincerity
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: jin ser it ee
Sentence: During the wedding, the liquor flowed and so did the bride's lurid history. Her best friend and maid of honour, Stacy, felt compelled by gincerity to disclose the bride's annals of one night stands to the groom and everyone else in the large reception hall.
Etymology: Gin (strong liquor flavored with juniper berries)& Sincerity (moral soundness;honesty)
Blabomination
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /blab-bom-uh-NAY-shun/
Sentence: Susan realized that she should have assigned someone to curb her best friend's consumption of Fuzzy Navel's at her wedding reception when Brandi suddenly grabbed the microphone. Her scandalous chronology of Susan's ex-boyfriends, and her awful breakups with them, was a total blabomination, and was recieved only with shocked silence. Afterward, Susan calmly walked over to the videographer, who had recorded the whole thing, threatened him with violence if didn't edit that speech out of the wedding video, borrowed a phone and tried to find a number for a Homicide Hotline, if there was such a thing.
Etymology: Blab - to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly (back formation from Middle English, blabberen "to talk idly") + Abomination - a vile, shameful, or detestable action (from Latin, abominatus "shun as an ill omen")
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COMMENTS:
A blabariuos success! - wordmeister, 2008-06-04: 12:53:00
great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-04: 14:56:00
Good one, Tigger...I'd have givewn her a punch in the blabdomen! - Nosila, 2008-06-04: 22:58:00
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Comments:
Today's definition is inspired by Miranda's moment of honesty during the Wedding Rehearsal scene in the Sex in the City ~ James
scrabbelicious - 2012-01-06: 01:44:00
Nice. The bride's annals inndeed.