Verboticisms

Created by: afehnel2

Pronunciation: Sick-as-a-dog

Sentence: "I would come into work today but I can't because my doctor says I have Sickasadog. It's contagious."

Etymology: Sick- not feeling well As a dog- Dogs get real sick

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: med-eh-scam-vuh-KAY-shun

Sentence: For the third year in a row Bernard managed to play on the sympathy of his boss Viola, and wrangled a weeks paid vacation of sick leave by pulling yet another mediscamvaction gambit.

Etymology: Blend of medical, scam, and vacation.

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COMMENTS:

That's what I"M talking about. More! More! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-01: 13:40:00

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Created by: DrWebsterIII

Pronunciation: fab ri ˈkändrēa

Sentence: Sue Ellen was quite the fabrichondriac, forever playing hooky and getting away with it, that her jealous co-workers begged her for one of her never failing, get out of work, contagious conditions.

Etymology: fabricate: to lie, + hypochondria: imaginary illness

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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Con-d-tay-jus

Sentence: When Neil heard the weather forecast for the next few days he hatched a plan that couldn't possibly fail. He used his kid's white face paints to make hiim look deathly pale and went into work moaning that he felt terrible, his boss took one look at him and fearing that he was connedtagious,, immediately told him to take a week off. As soon as Neil got home he washed off the paint and replaced it with suntan oil then poured himself a large drink and went into the garden to sunbathe for the rest of the day.

Etymology: Conned(to have deceived (someone) by lying) + Contagious(of a disease) spread by direct or indirect contact between people or organisms) = Connedtagious

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COMMENTS:

clever - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-01: 10:58:00

That Neil is MY kind of slacker. Buy him one on me. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-01: 13:33:00

Very clever. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-10-01: 18:14:00

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Created by: blackkittynili

Pronunciation: muey-buey-buey-muey

Sentence: i really am muybuybuying my boss

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COMMENTS:

muybuybuymuy - blackkittynili, 2007-11-04: 04:07:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: MED-eh-skam

Sentence: In order to extend his vacation a couple extra days, Barrymore once again conned his boss with a mediscam, reporting phony symptoms accompanied by phony photos.

Etymology: Blend of 'medical' and 'scam'

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Created by: clarion

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Yeah, he totally illemanated the situation, and now he's taking an extra week's paid vacation while I'm stuck at the office doing all his work!

Etymology: ill- sickness and emanate- to send forth

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: GRIM-week-uhr

Sentence: When telephonicly Bob's eerie ebolalia mournfully eked out his own impending self-doom; his boss, Mr Hart, always immediately granted to him, a moaning, groaning grimweeker, the next five working days off on full pay.

Etymology: GRIM: having a harsh, surly, forbidding, or morbid air; melancholy; despondent: & WEEK:the working days or working portion of the seven-day period; workweek; _ER: (suffix): forming nouns, denoting doer. GRIM REAPER: the ghastly, savage, fierce, harsh, stalking, foreboding and repulsive aspect of immanent death. EBOLALIA (ebola & lalia)

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COMMENTS:

a whole week? lucky guy - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-01: 11:00:00

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: liar/in/jy/tis

Sentence: He came down with a bad case of liaryngitis just in time for the baseball playoffs.

Etymology: laryngitis + liar

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COMMENTS:

Great word! - libertybelle, 2007-11-02: 11:08:00

Excellent!! - Mustang, 2007-11-03: 00:00:00

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Created by: astorey

Pronunciation: call-ing-in-sh-tik

Sentence: Avery was a diligent worker with a good sense of responsibility, but when her college roommates showed up on Thursday for a weekend of fun, she couldn't resist pulling the old callinginshtick. After trolling through plausible sudden and severe illnesses in her head, Avery settled on a urinary tract infection, figuring the gross-out factor would preclude her boss from exposing her callinginshtick. She was right.

Etymology: Calling in sick, changed to incorporate shtick, a Yiddish word that means a comic theme or gimmick.

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COMMENTS:

Excellent! That AVERY was a genius. You , too. :) - metrohumanx, 2008-10-01: 13:42:00

Good one...or mention any kind of female problems and they back away like you've got Bubomic Plague... - Nosila, 2008-10-01: 22:01:00

Meant Bubonic...though you could feel very explosive! - Nosila, 2008-10-01: 22:01:00

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