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DEFINITION: v. To be physically overcome by a sudden illness, disability, or even death when asked to participate in unrewarding activities -- like work, or household chores. n. A person who gets sick when asked to work.
Verboticisms
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Dutophasia
Created by: doogman
Pronunciation: doo-toe-fay-shah
Sentence: When asked to clean up the cat's vomit, George suddenly collapsed from dutophasia.
Etymology: From that Latin 'Duto' (work) and Phasia (illness)
Lazividy
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: lay-ziff-ity
Sentence: We were supposed to do some springcleaning on the weekend, but were overcome by lazividy.
Etymology: lazy levidity
Lethargiscape
Created by: Rocky
Pronunciation: Le|tharg|i|scape
Sentence: Your daddy comitted 1st degree lethargiscape when confronted with the honey-do list.
Etymology: Lethargy | Escape
Hypolethargiac
Created by: misnomer
Pronunciation: Hi/po/le/thar/gee/ak
Sentence: The man was a hypolethargiac; the thought of visiting his in-laws caused George to come down suddenly with a very serious case of some obscure affliction.
Etymology: Hypochondriac; lethargy.
Slackmaster
Created by: moltentim
Pronunciation: slak/mas/ter
Sentence: Mary's husband avoids work like a slackmaster.
Etymology: Of relation to a couch potato
Dullchorexia
Created by: Jester
Pronunciation: DuL-CHaw-X-ia
Sentence: Dave was suddenly struck down with dullchorexia when his wife mentioned that the shelves had not been put up.
Etymology:
Travailitis
Created by: andystephenson
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Work just gives me travailitis
Etymology:
Comments:
Divakar - 2006-12-13: 02:03:00
Hey guys...I'm new and maybe I'm misunderstanding something. It's called "verbotomy" but do our words have to be verbs? Because to me, this seems to ask for an adjective. I mean, "To fake a sudden..." or "To react with sudden illness..." would sound more verbish.
wordmeister - 2006-12-13: 03:02:00
Hey Divakar, Any kind of word will do, as long as it is you can use it in a sentence. And the funnier that sentence that more votes you'll get...
verbatul - 2006-12-13: 07:54:00
Divakar has a point though. An attempt should be made to supply a verb when one is asked for (and still maintain wit).
BaruMonkey - 2006-12-13: 10:32:00
insofar as the name of the game is concerned... Verboseness, Verbosity (n) - An expressive style that uses excessive or empty words.
DarthWader - 2006-12-13: 11:53:00
I agree with Divakar... The definition begins with "To be..." not "The condition of..." Verb, verb, verb. Verb is the worb.
Hey Players,
As you may have noticed we have lot's of new Verbotomists. Welcome to everyone! We are working on setting up a grouping system, so that we can play in smaller groups... We will keep you posted, as we update the system! Cheers, James
warped - 2006-12-13: 13:40:00
Bah, I should read the list FIRST next time: I accidently ended up using someone else's word (shirkitis). Ah well. Also, grouping people into smaller groups would be great, it seems we got a flood of people from Jay Is Games...
wordmeister - 2006-12-13: 13:45:00
Hey read the sentence for Workumvent -- it's funny
TheCapn - 2006-12-13: 20:57:00
Im pretty sure there is a real word for this...
TheCapn - 2006-12-13: 21:16:00
There is, its "Malinger"
- 2006-12-13: 22:12:00
DarthWader, "verb" also refers to words and speech, as in the words "verbal" and "verbalize," or as BaruMonkey pointed out, "verbose." Thus this game is not about the part of speech called "verb," but rather about words in general.
Bifurcated Rivets posted a link to your site recently. That's how I got here.
missparaguay1991 - 2006-12-15: 10:34:00
James you are geniatic! how didn't I think of possibilizing such a fun game! At least we've you! Congreetings!
Hey missparaguay, Thanks for the compliment. What really amazes me, is the super-creativity of all our the players -- there are so many terrific words and sentences! ~ James
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