Verboticisms

Created by: Guthlaf1

Pronunciation: TAT-el-KARST

Sentence: She could never see the problem with tattlecasting her husband's sexual habits.

Etymology: Tattle - related to 'tittle-tattle', being (petty) gossip Cast - from "broadcast", in this case being to relate information to anyone and everyone

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Created by: kumza

Pronunciation: spocker

Sentence: I can't believe Brad was spalking about his penile rash in the hotdog lineup.

Etymology: spew talk

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COMMENTS:

Good word...don't relish overhearing that conversation...he mustard been crazy...who'd want to ketchup with that diagnosis? - Nosila, 2009-08-12: 01:59:00

I hope he doesn't have to eat his words - jrogan, 2009-08-12: 07:37:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: O-pen-se-CREET

Sentence: His opensecretism was his downfall, causing his friends to stop confiding in him.

Etymology: open secret (something generally known) + secrete (discharge, emanate, give off)

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Created by: Carole

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Her private life was broadcast to the world, through her boyfriends indisconfidiocy.

Etymology: indis/ indiscretion, confid/ confidential, idiocy/ stupipity

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: in dis skreetch

Sentence: When they met, she thought he was cute and charming. After they had gotten to know each other in the biblical sense, she found out later he had been indiscreech with his buddies playing golf. When they leered at her and made lurid comments, she knew she had to dump him quickly, as golfers don't get better with age or die gracefully. They just lose their balls or get a hole-in-one!

Etymology: Indiscreet (lacking discretion; injudicious;not marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint;not heedful of potential consequences)& Screech (a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry)

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Created by: Fenners

Pronunciation: in + confidentiality

Sentence: He hasn't got to grips with inconfidentiality yet

Etymology: based on 'confidential' To keep thinks private.

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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

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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...)

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Created by: Carla

Pronunciation: dim-wit-uh

Sentence: Luckily, Lucy's friends now knew that she was an incorrigible dimwitter. Ever since Lucy had announced Beatrice's chlamydia to the neighbours, no-one shared their confidences with her.

Etymology: dimwit + witter (to chatter or babble pointlessly)

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Created by: sodium

Pronunciation: see-kret-ell

Sentence: Flicka wanted to keep her birthmark in the shape of Bob Saget private knowledge, but after Roy did some drunken secretelling at the office party, that was impossible.

Etymology: secret + tell

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