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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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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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Scuttleslutting
Created by: HALibut
Pronunciation: skuht-l-sluht-ing
Sentence: Jane's mom was a complete scuttleslut, readily embarrassing her daughter in front of strangers with lengthy and vivid stories of adolescent bedwetting and clumsiness.
Etymology: > scuttlebutting + slut
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
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
Lenian
Created by: CheekyMonkey1973
Pronunciation: le-nee-an
Sentence: He knew that was a lenian before he told everyone Franny's weight.
Etymology: Anagram of she who just couldn't keep her mouth shut.
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")
Blabamorus
Created by: TheBocaj
Pronunciation: BLAB-uh-MOHR-us
Sentence: Jill left Jack because he was such a Blabamorus, he told her ENTIRE FAMILY about their sex life--at her Grandfather's wake.
Etymology: Blabbermouth + Moron + Ignoramus + Platy[ma]pus
Blutter
Created by: ChristopherAndersen
Pronunciation: BLUT ur
Sentence: Well, he bluttered to everyone that we had sex on it, so now no one will sit on the couch--we have to get a new one.
Etymology: blurt+utter (and blather)
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COMMENTS:
hehe! - purpleartichokes, 2007-08-03: 08:15:00
Funny sentence. :D - mplsbohemian, 2007-08-03: 09:47:00
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Shriekret
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: SHREEK-reht
Sentence: When an angry girlfriend let loose a barrage of shriekrets in the middle of the mall, Alex didn't know if he'd ever be able to sleep with his stuffed walrus again.
Etymology: shriek + secret
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
