Verboticisms

Created by: tangledupinblue

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Sentence: She privyblurted what she really thought of him to the entire room...the party broke up after that.

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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]

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: muk-shmuk-ing

Sentence: Though she expected some whispered conversations in the office regarding her drunken escapades at the office party, Sue was quite mortified when coworker Bob started loudly muckschmucking every detail of her semi-naked table dance.

Etymology: muck, schmuck

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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: 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: Robke22

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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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Created by: IanArcher

Pronunciation: as "confidential"

Sentence: When I showed up, Tim was confidentyelling about Clarice's performance in the bedroom.

Etymology: from "confidential" and "yell"

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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: chris

Pronunciation: tumble-tung

Sentence: Rupert's propensity to tumbletongue made him the first guy to be invited into the hitherto all-girl office gossip group

Etymology: tumble (to spill out uncontrollably) + tongue (to give voice to)

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