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DEFINITION: v. To share information without understanding the difference between what should be public, and what others consider to be private. n. A person who doesn't know what not to say.
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Idiombarres
Created by: likephilshead
Pronunciation: (idio-em-bear-ass)
Sentence:
Etymology:
Leakspeak
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: leek-speek
Sentence: Vince would leakspeak details about Myrna's personal hang-ups especially in the company of her girlfriends.
Etymology: leak + speak
Muckschmucking
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
Laxerbiate
Created by: themeanreds
Pronunciation: Lax-er-be-8
Sentence: That laxerbiating moron over there just told me you smell like broccoli.
Etymology: Lax (loose), erb (verbose)
Secretell
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
Oversharing
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...)
Tacitless
Created by: sweetclarity
Pronunciation: t-ah-sit-less.
Sentence: That's tacitless!
Etymology:
Tumbletongue
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)
Splutterance
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.
Comments:
chris - 2007-01-08: 13:54:00
good word
wordmeister - 2007-01-08: 22:50:00
Hey Chris, Which word did you like?