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DEFINITION: To share information without understanding the difference between what should be public, and what others consider to be private.
Verboticisms
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Blogblurt
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: blog-blurt
Sentence: Checking out some of those MySpace pages I realise that there is an awful lot of blogblurting going on.
Etymology: blogging (sharing information via a web log in a very public way) + blurt (to sharing private information without meaning to)
Indiscretin
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: in/dis/creh/tin
Sentence: He was such an indiscretin that his girlfriend considered having his tongue surgically removed - but she loved french kissing too much
Etymology: indiscretion + cretin
Troplangue
Created by: MikeV
Pronunciation: Tro-long
Sentence: Ugh! My husband is such a troplangue!
Etymology: From the French 'trop' and 'langue', meaning too much, and tongue.
Geesenotinpublic
Created by: dancer002013
Pronunciation: geese-not-in-public
Sentence: He said my mom weighs 300 pounds and the mom said you know nothing about geesenotinpublic.
Etymology: swiss
Ignorblurt
Created by: Kelly
Pronunciation: IG-ner-BLURT
Sentence: Jim had signed the confidentiality agreement without reading it, and got fired when he ignorblurted secret patent information.
Etymology: Ignorant (unaware) + Blurt (as in "to blurt out")
Blabsprech
Created by: frostycharlie69
Pronunciation: blab-shprek
Sentence: Arthur did not need to blabsprech the gory details of his mysterious rash, but he did anyway.
Etymology: "Blabbermouth" - Someone who does not know when to shut up. "Sprechen" - German for speak.
Blabberdaft
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: bla-bur-daft
Sentence: Had she known she was dating the company blabberdaft, she never would have told him about her third nipple.
Etymology: blabber mouth, daft, flabbergast
Gauchemouth
Created by: ubernym
Pronunciation: GOASH-MOUTH
Sentence: My boyfriend totally gauchemouthed our relationship at work today.
Etymology: Gauche, which is French and denotes one who is clumsy and otherwise socially inept, and mouth, a noun that is also a verb, which makes this even more fun: because a gauchemouth is a person who gauchemouths
Infauxpas
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: in-FO-pa
Sentence: When the young officer was appointed to a position in the "Freedom of Information" Department nobody realised that he was prividyslexic. He thought that freedom of information meant that the information in the database he updated was free to all to access. But his biggest "informational" false step or infauxpas came when he released the names and addresses of his country's secret service agents to an officer of a less than friendly, foriegn power.
Etymology: Based on, and a blending of, French, "faux pas" and the English, "information".
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COMMENTS:
prividyslexic is a great word to although it might imply that he was confused as to which washroom sign to follow - Jabberwocky, 2007-08-03: 06:02:00
I like it, but the word suggests that it is defining a mistake. Good merge though :) - frostycharlie69, 2007-08-03: 17:50:00
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