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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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Hushgushed
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: HUSH-gusht
Sentence: Belinda tried to keep her liposuction procedure quiet, but after her brother hushgushed it to all his buddies at the sawmill, everyone in the tri-county area seemed to know all about it and winked knowingly when they saw her in town.
Etymology: Hush (as in "shut yer yap") + gushed (eagerly and excessively shared information)
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.
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.
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.)
Yamble
Created by: Rossco
Pronunciation: Yam-bull
Sentence: My girlfriend's parents are a couple of yamblers, for sure.
Etymology: Yammer + Ramble
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.
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
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
Privalic
Created by: Dustinisdean2007
Pronunciation: Priv-uh-lick.
Sentence: That guy over there is a total privalic. He told us how much his wife weighted and how much money she made in a month!
Etymology: "Priv" comes from "Private", "Lic" comes from "Public".
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)
