Verboticisms

Created by: tinman

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Etymology: Latin for without thought

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: miss-CLOSE

Sentence: She misclosed everything I told her about my sex life!

Etymology: It's like "disclose." Only with "mis" instead.

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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: 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: 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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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sensərchip

Sentence: Candy believes in freedom of speech however with her boyfriend Charles, censorchip is required. She would love to have a censorchip planted deep in his brain to keep him from blurting out things she told him in private.

Etymology: censor (scrutinize, revise, or cut unacceptable parts from a book, movie, etc.) + chip (a tiny wafer of semiconducting material used to make an integrated circuit)

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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: 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: Logiedan

Pronunciation: Priv - ish - are

Sentence: That loudmouth is a real privishar, he tells everyone my secrets!

Etymology: Private + Share

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Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: sqweeler/wheeler

Sentence: Known in polite circles as a "squealerwheeler", the capricious Carpet Knight couldn't wait to reveal his most egregious escapades over a gin and tonic.

Etymology: squealer: one who reveals things best left in the boudoir or the boardroom + wheeler: a mover and shaker

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