"foot-in-mouth disease" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfʊɾ.ɪnˌmaʊθ dəzˈiz/ [General-American], /- dɪzˈiz/ [General-American], [ˈɸʊɾ-] [General-American] Audio: En-us-foot-in-mouth disease.ogg [US], En-au-foot-in-mouth disease.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: Humorous conflation of foot-and-mouth disease and put one's foot in one's mouth. Etymology templates: {{m|en|foot-and-mouth disease}} foot-and-mouth disease, {{m|en|put one's foot in one's mouth}} put one's foot in one's mouth Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} foot-in-mouth disease (uncountable)
  1. (idiomatic, humorous) A tendency to make remarks that are embarrassingly wrong or inappropriate. Tags: humorous, idiomatic, uncountable Categories (topical): Talking Translations (tendency): 口不擇言 (Chinese Mandarin), 口不择言 (kǒubúzéyán) (Chinese Mandarin), tapa möläyttää (Finnish), but see von einem Fettnäpfchen ins Nächste treten [verb] (German)
    Sense id: en-foot-in-mouth_disease-en-noun-OMBmK4ip Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations

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