Diarrhea of the Mouth

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Hello, this is Gail DeCampos from…

Hi, Gail, welcome to the program.

Welcome.

Well, thanks.

I have kind of a weird question, and the question is, what’s that super great word from a show long ago that was for diarrhea of the mouth?

From a show long ago?

What are we talking about?

The Howdy Doody Hour?

Yeah, I think it was the Doody Hour.

There were three actual words I wrote down from Michelle a long time ago, and I wrote them down and I put them in my wallet and I shared them with people because they were so great.

But the specific word was the diarrhea of the mouth word.

But I think that menopause has sucked out a bunch of good words, and one of them was that one.

Right.

Right.

I understand the feeling.

So this is a word for, again?

Diarrhea of the mouth.

That’s what I thought she said.

And by that you mean lots of talk, lots of chatter.

I actually went through the whole thesaurus under the T’s thinking it was in the T’s, and I never could find it.

But it’s like blabbering, blathering, gibberish, junk coming out of your mouth nonstop.

Oh, man.

Isn’t that a public radio program you’re talking about?

This is hitting a little close to home, this diarrhea of the mouth thing.

Well, you know, this calls on all our thesaurus powers, but what do you got there, Marth?

Can you help her?

Well, I suppose it’s too easy to say logaria, right?

It wasn’t that one.

It wasn’t logaria.

What about loquacity?

No.

Logomania?

What?

Logomania?

I don’t think it was a logo word.

Not prolixity?

No.

Carrelessness?

I think when I hear it, I’m going to be happy.

Right.

Garulity?

What?

Garulity?

G-A-R-R-U-L-I-T-Y?

No.

How about coprolalia?

No, that’s talking about…

Well, that’s talking a lot of bunk, so to speak.

Well, it’s talking specifically about excrement, right?

Well, no, it doesn’t mean that.

It just means talking a lot of crap.

Yeah, it wasn’t a specific…

Okay.

It’s not scatological.

Okay, it’s not scatological, and it’s not embololalia, which means to insert nonsense.

Well, there are two multi-words, two words that are very similar to begin with multi.

Do you know those?

Which are those?

Multiloquent.

Multiloquent?

Multiloquent.

Multiloquent, yeah.

And motiloquus.

Neither one.

Okay.

I’m not buying it.

We’re running on, that’s nine words now, and it’s none of those?

I actually read the thesaurus trying to figure it out.

Oh, bless your heart.

Gail, is it a T word?

Yeah.

But, you know, this is my last gasp here.

Give me the T word.

What about tumidity?

No.

You’re tumid from swelling and no?

Tumidity, like bloated language, no?

Oh, man.

You got to call me if you feel sick.

Well, yeah, I mean, the good thing is that we have a lot of garrulous listeners, and I’m sure that somebody knows this word out there.

It starts with a T.

I think it starts with a T, and it sounds like something that a nerdy scientist would have at the tip of their tongue.

Well, I know somebody out there in listener land knows this word.

So we’re going to get you an answer, Gail, okay?

Okay.

But I do like lagaria anyway.

So I’ll probably insert that into my poem.

Okay.

Well, we’ll be in touch, okay?

All right.

Thank you.

Thanks, Gail.

Bye-bye.

So hard to please.

Oh, man.

We did our best.

I just can’t think of anything else.

Well, can you help, Gail?

Do you have an answer for her?

What is a word that means diarrhea of the mouth and probably begins with a T, and it’s none of the 12 words that we offered her?

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