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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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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
Gosslip
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: gahs-slip
Sentence: Instead of fighting her tendancies to gosslip, Meredith embraced them. She is now editor-in-chief at one of the biggest tabloid mags around.
Etymology: gossip + slip (slip of the toung, to let something slip, etc.)
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)
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")
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
