Verboticism: Trooble

'In fact, before she knew her husband...'

DEFINITION: v. To share a true but extremely embarrassing story about a close personal friend at the worst possible time. n. A moment of ill-timed honesty.

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Trooble

Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: troo-ble

Sentence: As a parish priest, and the ear of the confessional, reverend Tom was privy to everyone's dirty laundry. Unfortunately after a glass of wine or two, he would start to trooble, which wasn't so bad until he starting troobling on the church's new blog... And so now everyone's troobles, were googled.

Etymology: true + trouble

Points: 1475

Comments: Trooble

Jabberwocky - 2008-06-04: 15:00:00
In olden days he would have been known as a troobladour.

Mustang - 2008-06-04: 21:55:00
The sacramental wine turned out to be sacrificial.

Nosila - 2008-06-04: 23:00:00
Good word, wm...it reminded me of that episode on Star Trek, The Trooble with Tribbles!

OZZIEBOB - 2008-06-05: 23:51:00
fantastic!